Superficial as a car advert and as entertaining as hell

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2003)

Very much a "guy's" film - where cars, especially BMWs, are the Most Important Thing in creation. Explosions and cool scenes come a close second, and chicks somewhere way down around the evolutionary significance level near a can of coke (iced coke, of course, with beads of condensation dripping photogenically down the side). Ex-marine cool dude hot shot no questions asked 'Transporter' delivers goods only to discover one day that his package is a live Chinese chicky babe. After a suitably empty-headed start she blossoms into super intelligent female with hot and sensuous afterglow. Plus, of course, she has a story to move the hearts of the world (she pouts a few white lies as she's telling it but there again she has an image to keep up after all!) Cool dude and hot babe take it in turns rescuing each other, all amidst creatively choreographed kung-fu scenes and sun-drenched French land and sea scapes. Heart of gold wins the day etc. Stylish, superficial, entertaining. (Especially if you like car adverts.)