Nice action scenes!

Rating: 8/10 (12 January 2010)

Corey Yuen has directed some low-budget action films but in 2002 he directed a great action flick called The Transporter, which stars Jason Statham. Jason Statham's first film was brilliant and he became better and better in acting from then on. It was in 2002 that he starred in an action flick and finally showed off his Kickboxing and other skills and it was really great. From the first scene I had a feeling that this was going to get better after twenty minutes and I was right 100%. The story gets more interesting and more characters are introduced, good and bad. Jason Statham's character is all calm and careful and that is cool but when it comes to someone messing with him and his car, he really unleashes his dark side and believe me that all hell is going to break loose. The stunts and choreography are fantastic, so well done stunt men and choreographers. The character, played by Qi Shu, is pretty exceptional and her humor is funny. Her lack of vocabulary is a weak side to her character and you need subtitles sometimes to understand what she is saying. The villain Wall Street, played my Matt Schulze, is totally ridiculous in acting and he doesn't look like a villain but a wanna be villain. The boring scenes were revolting and they all contain the French cop. They contain blah-blah-blah and that stops the story a little bit.
Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods--human or otherwise--from one place to another. No questions asked. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW, Frank adheres to a strict set of rules, which he never breaks. Rule One: Never change the deal. Rule Two: No names--Frank doesn't want to know whom he's working for, or what he's transporting. Rule Three: never look in the package. Frank's newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he's done in the past. He's been hired by an American known only as "Wall Street" to make a delivery; but when Frank stops along the route, he notices his package is moving. Violating Rule Three, Frank looks inside the bag, finding its contents to be a beautiful, gagged woman. Frank's steadfast adherence to his other two rules--which make up his basic code of survival--also quickly fails, hurtling him and his new companion on a road leading to shocking secrets, deadly complications, and the last thing that Frank ever expected to come to believe: that rules are made to be broken. (Copied from IMDb)
The action scenes are very lethal and smart with a little bit of coolness. When he took off his shirt while he was fighting enemies, it showed that he was a show-off who liked his body. The action scenes never disappoint or get boring as Frank Martin terminates enemies, tough scrawny. Sometimes it would look fake,(Spoiler!!!) like when he survived the bombing on his house (Spoiler End!!!), but it can be real as well. Mmmmmm? The end scene was very awesome and very James Bond like. As far as the story goes, it doesn't disappoint but it feels like it is clichéd, somehow.Corey Yuen did a good job at directing this film while Luc Besson did fantastic writing the story. The car chase scenes look realistic and that's why you should watch this movie. I would recommend this to any film lover that likes a solid action flick. It is not a masterpiece but definitely worth a peek. The sequel is even better but the the third one sucked balls.