Transport me elsewhere...away from this movie.

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2010)

Luc Besson has always been more of a visuals and styles than a story and substance director. His film Leon proved that but that was very enjoyable and was believable whereas The Transporter, well oh dear. This was watchable don't get me wrong, but as Hollywood trashy fun, minus the word fun mostly and it's just Hollywood trash.
Well the basic story is that Jason Statham plays ex-army soldier Frank Martin who "transports" packages for anyone to earn money, but Frank has three rules, which are no new deals or renegotiation of old ones, no names and never open the package, but he breaks the rules and gets involved with a Chinese girl Lai (Qui Shu) whose caught up in people's smuggling.
And that's it, the film suffers from lack of story or depths to the characters, which makes them uninteresting and you not care about them. Lai sleeps with Frank for no reason even though he treats her badly, though he is just doing his job. There are plot holes the size of a black hole like the villain goes after Frank because he opened the package, but he was nowhere near him when he did it, so how would he know? That's never explained. The script and dialogue is very cheesy and cliché. Also the acting is atrocious, no one can act in this though Statham isn't too bad, but he just wasn't convincing much at all nor was Qui Shu and even though Francois Berleand as Inspector Tarconi was good, the script didn't help him even though Frank and him have a history, that is never delved into. The only reason I gave this a three star was because the action was though preposterous was exciting and choreographed well with some nice scenery and music, but this was predictable and badly made mostly. Transport yourself away from this one.