straight to video for this bomb...

Rating: Null/10 (9 November 2002)

Jason Statham had a nickname 'Turkish' in the Guy Richie movie Snatch which is probably why they hired him for this turkey. As the main star, he appeared to struggle in holding the picture together and was devoid of any deep emotion due to a poor screenplay and direction. Sure it is an action movie, but generally you want to root for the main star rather than hope they get slaughtered quickly.
It felt like a bad episode of Texas Walker Ranger with Chuck Norris (who would have fitted in nicely with a film of this calibre). To be fair though, Chuck Norris has too much style for the Transporter. Seems like Luc Besson (joint screenwriter) rehashed old material: dive scenes from the Big Blue, action from the Professional and start sequence from Taxis. Individually good films, added together a miserable mess that should have gone straight to video.