It's like a humourless Jackie Chan movie

Rating: 5/10 (23 October 2002)

The Transporter is like a Jackie Chan movie without Jackie and without humour. The story is one dimensional and oh so predictable. A 12 year old who plays an excessive amount of first person shooter could have come up with a better plot. Now I can appreciate a good ol' fashion action movie, but this was way over the top. I was all over that opening car chase scene until he jumped his BMW off a bridge and onto a transport truck,...come on let's keep it within the realm of reality. See Frankenheimer's Ronin for a proper car chase scene. And what about parachuting down onto the trucks, once again why couldn't he have just driven up to the trucks and hopped on...that I could go for. And the rockets into the house....anyways, I love action flicks, but I also like a sense of reality, even if the movie just skirts it. The Bond flicks are a good example of extreme action within the confines (for the most part) of the physical laws of the universe. As for the acting, over the top, but that's to be expected. Character development...non existent. Love interest...laughable. However, the most disappointing aspect of this film was the blatent plagerism of Guy Ritchie's BMW "Ambush" short and Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark". If you see the movie it's obvious. Overall, the fight scenes and car chase scenes are pretty fun, but that's it. 5 out of 10.