Stylistically French with an Asian twist

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2003)

Just rented it and I am blown away. For some idiotic reason I didn't see it at the theater. But man, is the preview ever a bit different than what I expected. No fooling, this is a good flick with alot of deep substance underlying the characters. I can tell the guys making this were REALLY into it cause you can just tell they had a "Blast" making it. The characters are likeable and genuine and the frenetic pacing and rhythm of the whole thing give me a real thrill. It's so quick and so slick that I can see how there are rapid Asian elements blending with French super cool style now. The director Corey Yuen and filmmaker rebel Luc Besson are a lethal combination, oh yea. I mean these guys mean business, this movie is no joke. It just wouldn't let up. Everything is constantly moving forward, the story lean and mean, very very strong story telling technique. Also, the score was dazzling the way it complimented the energy of the film. And yes, Jason Stratham is on a whole nother level of cool. I seen his cool in Guy Richie's gangster movie "Snatch",when he played Turkish and have been on the look out for this cat ever since. That too was a genre breaking film. It incorporated black humor in the style of Pulp Fiction but in a way all its own. Oh yea one last thing. I seen The Transporter again at my friends house on DVD because I told him to rent it and he too was blown away. I don't know how to explain it really. I guess the closest way would be to say The Transporter transported the action genre into a whole new arena of filmmaking in that they make no apologies for cutting right to the chase. Puns intended. O it's in your face story telling alright. John Woo, Robert Rodiguez, Quentin Tarantino and Guy Richie probably spilling popcorn all over the darn place in laughter as they watched "this thing" go nuts on their big screen T.V.

P.S. If you blink, um...you may want to rewind the movie, you probably just missed about oh say, fifty-thousand cuts. That's round numbers of course.

P.S. II Something that may help prevent you from missing anything could be to use a clamping device such as that used in "A Clock Work Orange." That would keep your eyes wide open for the duration of the movie.
P.S. III ~A New Beginning~ Why is it that when Luc Besson has a vision, T.V. sets are on the verge of exploding? Just a thought.
P.S. IV Cautionary Note Be careful when you remove The Transporter DVD from your DVD player after the movie has played. It was spinning so fast and caused so much friction that I actually burned the palm of my hand when I went to pick it up. I now have a second degree disc burn on my hand that reads The Transporter with a guy balancing two Berretta hand guns in mid air performing a drop kick.