Transporter Delivers Action Without Proper Storytelling

Rating: 6/10 (8 November 2011)

The Transporter is an action film directed by Louis Leterrier and Corey Yuen and written by Luc Besson.The film stars Jason Statham as Frank Martin, a driver for hire – a mercenary "transporter" who will deliver anything, anywhere – no questions asked – for the right price.In the movie, he finds his life becoming all the more dangerous when he turns against a gang of criminals.It also stars Shu Qi as Lai Kwai.
The Transpoter presents Frank Martin as a former Special Forces officer who lives on the French Mediterranean that has a lucrative second career as a underworld courier for hire. He will deliver anything anywhere, but he has three iron-clad rules - once the plan is in motion it cannot be changed, neither he nor his customers are to ever use their real names, and under no circumstances will he open the package. Martin is hired to make a delivery to a wealthy but unscrupulous American known as Wall Street, but after taking possession of the package he realizes that whatever is inside happens to be alive. Breaking his own rule, Martin opens the bag to discover a beautiful Asian woman, Lai, who is bound and gagged. Lai briefly escapes, but Martin captures her, and delivers her to Wall Street as promised. However, after being given a parcel to deliver by Wall Street, Martin finds out what Wall Street is up to - in partnership with Lai's father Mr. Kwai, Wall Street is part of a scheme to smuggle Asian illegal aliens into France. Martin's conscience gets the better of him, and he sets out to rescue Lai and put Wall Street and Mr. Kwai out of business; however, as if this wasn't enough of a challenge, Martin discovers a French detective, Tarconi has gotten wind of his illegal business.
The Transporter is one hell of an action film.It presents actions scenes that are merely to entertain regardless whether they are realistic or not.It spends of its time between car chases and martial-arts bouts with random scuba-diving footage.Also,it has a lot more fights, explosions, and more fights, but with a flair.
Overall,the actions scenes are simply excellent and outstanding as a means to entertain in lieu of a good story and character development.