Transporter 3

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with a ship in the ocean. Two workers think that they are transporting alcohol, and want to have a little taste. They open a container and find numerous drums inside. One of the drums is knocked over. They pick it up and open it, only to get a face full of toxic waste. The captain and crew hear an alarm go off and put on gas masks. They find the two workers, dead next to the open drum. The captain has the bodies thrown over the side of the ship. Elsewhere, Malcolm (David Atrakchi) drives his car to a police checkpoint. A cop requests to see his passport, and he shows it to him. The cop sees a woman sleeping in the backseat, and Malcolm says that shes tired from partying last night. The cop lets Malcolm through the checkpoint.Frank Martin (Jason Statham) and Inspector Tarconi (François Berléand) enjoy a boring day of fishing in the ocean. They are at the spot that Tarconi used to fish with his father, and is surprised that they havent had any bites yet. Eventually, Tarconi gets a bite and Frank gets all excited, telling him to fight for the fish. Elsewhere, Malcolm gets to another police checkpoint and shows his papers to a cop. However, the cop tells Malcolm to get out of the car and bring his papers inside so that they can inspect it. He also tells him that the woman in the back needs to come inside as well. Malcolm looks nervous, and then he winds up speeding past the checkpoint. The cops chase Malcolm through the streets, but wind up crashing into a van. Tarconi, after losing the fish, gets the call about the chase and is surprised that Frank was not the driver. He tells Frank that hes going to have to cut their fishing day short, and they depart just as Frank gets a bite. At the airport, Johnson (Robert Knepper) and his men arrive in a private jet. When asked what his purpose is in the country, Johnson says that hes there for environmental protection. During this time we see Minister Leonid Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbe) talking with reporters about his plan to help save the environment. Vasilev goes into his office and finds a confidential envelope waiting on his desk. The envelope starts to ring, and he finds a cell phone inside. Johnson is on the other end of the line, and is watching Vasilev from across the street. Johnson works for a company that Vasilev refused to do business with, since they would cause harm to the environment. Johnson has been hired to convince him to reconsider, and tells him to look at the picture inside the envelope. Vasilev is shocked by what he sees, and Johnson tells him that hell be in contact with him.At night, Frank falls asleep watching a fishing show on TV at his house. He wakes up, and hears tires screeching. Suddenly, a car crashes into his house. The driver is Malcolm, and he is bloodied from the crash and having been shot. As Frank recognizes him, we see a flashback to when he was approached for a job. Frank declined, and instead gave the man Malcolms name and number to contact. The man was adamant that his boss wanted Frank because hes the best and wouldnt take no for an answer. Frank tried to leave, but became surrounded by henchmen in a room with a piano in it. They tried to make him reconsider, but Frank took off his jacket and beat the crap out of them all. Back to the present, Frank calls an ambulance to get help for Malcolm, who refuses to get out of the car. Frank sees that he has a metal device strapped around his wrist, and the paramedics show up. Malcolm, weak, tries to tell them something about the car but the paramedics load him into the ambulance and start to drive away. Frank inspects the car and then sees Valentina (Natalya Rudakova) in the backseat. He tries to get her to get out of the car so that he can help her, but she shows him that shes also wearing a metal device. Frank realizes that somethings wrong and runs after the ambulance. After a certain distance, the ambulance explodes. He goes back into his house and is immediately knocked out by someone.When Frank wakes up, he finds himself in a room wearing nothing but his underwearand a metal device around his wrist. He finds a suit in the closet and puts it on. Johnson walks in and says that he would like to hire him for a job, since Malcolm (his replacement) failed. Frank maintains that hes unavailable. Becoming annoyed with a henchman, Johnson shoots him in the forehead and then points the gun at Frank. He tells him that he has three seconds to accept the job or hell kill him. Frank has no choice but to take the job, under the condition that he drives his own car. Johnson had a feeling that he would want his car, and so he leads Frank to a garage. Johnson has had his men take out all the weapons from the car and has installed his own GPS. He also gives him a wad of cash for gas/food, and a cell phone that will only call Johnsons number. He tells Frank to think of this as more of a mission, and tells him to not disappoint. He also mentions that the metal device around his wrist is a bomb, and if he gets more than 75 feet away from the car, hell explode. Hell be released after completing the mission. Frank is about to get in when he sees that Valentina is sitting in the passenger seat. He says that he works alone, but says that hell take the girl when Johnson threatens to kill her. He gets into the car and, after loading two bags into the trunk, tells Frank to get driving. Meanwhile, Tarconi arrives at Franks house and wonders what the hell happened there. He has his cops set up a crime scene, and a cop tows away Malcolms car. However, the tow truck is blocked off by a car and the cop is shot through the windshield. The gunmen remove the GPS from Malcolms car and drive off.After getting through a police checkpoint, Frank calls Johnson and he tells him to punch in a code for the GPS. The next location he will have to go is Budapest (Hungary). Frank repeatedly tries to get Valentina to talk to him about whats going on, but she refuses. Meanwhile, Tarconi has found the tow truck and the dead cop inside. He reviews video footage from the tow truck and sees who the gunmen were. He also sees their license plate, and has his cops try to find them. Frank drives off the chosen path and Johnson is made aware of it, since his men are tracking the car. Johnson sends some henchmen to persuade Frank to get back on course, but warns his men not to kill him since they need him. Frank drives to a garage owned by his friend Otto (Timo Dierkes), whos also a tech whiz. He shows Otto the bomb around his wrist, and asks him if he can remove it. Otto cant, and says that he knows the Pentagon has been working on something like it in secret. He says that theres a transmitter somewhere in the car, and then Johnsons goons show up. Frank orders Otto to search his car for the transmitter while the henchmen order Frank to get driving. They grab wrenches & poles, and attack Frank. As he beats his way through the men, Frank takes off his clothes and uses them as weapons. Eventually, he winds up shirtless and a giant henchman shows up. He throws Frank through a wall and beats him up. Frank tries to fight back, but his punches/kicks seem to hardly have any effect on him. The giant winds up getting stuck in the floor, and Frank bashes his head with a shovel. As Frank gets dressed, Valentina has obviously become attracted to him and helps straighten his tie. Otto finds the transmitter, but if he removes it the bombs will go off. Frank and Valentina drive away.While Valentina takes a nap in the back, Frank calls Johnson and tells him that he wants to talk face-to-face. Johnson says that hell be at Budapest, and to wait for his call. Frank arrives in Budapest and then sees a nearby pay phone ringing. He exits the car to answer it, and Johnson says that hes been thinking about their arrangement. Hes starting to think that anyone with a drivers license can do the mission, and so in the vein of Donald Trump, he fires Frank. A henchman steals Franks car and drives away. Frank chases him on foot, desperate to remain within distance. Valentina wakes up and sees that the new driver is not Frank. She starts to fight with him, trying to get him to stop the car, as Frank steals a bicycle and rides through a factory. Eventually, the driver stops to take care of Valentina. Frank rides his bicycle through a window, jumps through the drivers window, and kicks him out. Frank then drives off with Valentina. Meanwhile, the men that hired Johnson meet with Vasilev and order him to sign their contract, which also includes allowing the ship from the beginning to enter port without question. Vasilev buys some time by requesting 24 hours to review the contract. Also, Frank contacts Tarconi and informs him of the situation at hand. Frank talks with Johnson again, and agrees to do the mission. The next location he has to go to is Bucharest. Tarconi and his cops were listening in on the call, and are doing their best to trace Johnsons location but its difficult since he keeps on moving.Valentina says that shes hungry and describes what she wants to eat. She becomes more upbeat and puts on some make-up. When she does, she finds that she still has some drugs. She offers Frank a pill, but he refuses since hes more focused with driving. He tells her not to take the pills, but she does anyways. Valentina blasts some music and then says that she needs to pee. Frank pulls into a gas station and fills up the tank. Before Valentina goes inside, Frank reminds her not to go far from the car. Valentina goes inside the convenience store and pays for the gas. She eats some food and drinks some vodka in the back of the store. However, she is unable to get to the bathroom because its more than 75 feet from the car. Valentina resorts to pissing in the aisle while Frank becomes frustrated with her behavior. A car pulls up in front of the gas station, and a man gets out to piss on the side of the road. Frank gets suspicious and tells Valentina to get back in the car. She keeps on drinking the vodka and makes a scene at the gas pump. The guys in the car up ahead recognize Valentina and go into reverse. Frank throws the vodka away, shoves Valentina into the back, and speeds off. The other car tries to run Frank off the road, but fail. Frank calls Johnson and asks him why the car is chasing him. The guys in the other car are not Johnsons people, and so he tells Frank to drive faster while he figures out who they are. Two big trucks drive in both lanes on the road up ahead. Frank turns the car on its side and drives sideways between the trucks. He makes it past, and one of the trucks loses control. The other car chases Frank to a forest and fire at him with machine guns. Frank slams on the brakes just before the edge of a cliff. The other car drives over the cliff and explodes after falling.Frank rests his head on the steering wheel, and Valentina massages him because hes so tense. She then kisses the back of his neck, and Frank asks him what shes doing. She says that if theyre going to die, she wants to have sex one last time. Frank declines and gets out of the car. He looks in the trunk and finds that the two bags are filled with phone books. He then realizes that Valentina is the package hes transporting. She steals his keys and playfully walks away from the car. She says that she was turned on watching him fight shirtless earlier, and she wants him to do a striptease. Frank reluctantly takes off his shirt, but Valentina then requests a kiss. He kisses her, but she wants a kiss like he means it. Frank passionately kisses her, and they continue to make out even after he gets his keys back. Meanwhile, Johnson calls Vasilev and is furious that he sent some men to try to thwart his plan. Johnson says that if he ever wants to see his daughter Valentina again, hell have to play ball and sign the contract. Vasilev reveals that he knows who Johnson is and says that he wants to talk to his daughter before signing the contract. Johnson tries to call Frank, but hes too busy having sex with Valentina in the car. Hes also at a loss because since Frank is in the forest, hes out of range for them to track him.As Frank and Valentina overlook the valley, Valentina finally reveals what happened. She was at a nightclub partying with friends when someone gave her a drugged drink. She went to the bathroom and passed out. When she woke up, she was in the backseat of Malcolms car. She begged Malcolm to pull over and let her call her father. He did, even though it was against the rules. As she called her father, Johnsons henchmen showed up and chased them. They shot Malcolm in the back, and he told Valentina that he would make sure shes safe, which is why he crashed into Franks house. Frank and Valentina get back on the road, and Johnson calls them. He says that instead of going to Bucharest, hes going to take the next left and continue down the road. Valentina is afraid that they will kill Frank, but he tells her not to worry about it. Elsewhere, Tarconi visits Vasilev and works with him on getting his daughter back. Johnson calls and orders Vasilev to sign the contract, but he refuses until he hears Valentinas voice. He hangs up before Tarconi can trace his location. Frank winds up driving on a bridge, and becomes blocked on it (Johnson and his men are at both sides). Johnson orders Valentina to get out of the car and walk to him. Frank kisses her goodbye and tells her that hell be fine. Valentina walks over to Johnson, who removes her bomb, and spits in his face. Johnson punches her in the stomach and shoves her into a car. He then orders his men to kill Frank. They pump his car full of bullets, and Frank drives off the bridge into the water below. Johnson is satisfied, since hes dead either way (he stays, he drowns he leaves, he explodes).Underwater, Frank calls Tarconi and tells him where he is. Tarconi and the cops are ten minutes away and tell Frank to hang on. As Frank begins to drown, he swims to the trunk and takes out the two bags from earlier. He uses the air from the tires to blow air into the bags, which allows him to breathe. He then ties the bags to the car, and the air causes the car to float to the surface. Tarconi and the cops arrive just in time to see Frank & his car being pulled out of the water by a tractor. Frank gets a new pair of clothes and works on his car to get it running again. Meanwhile, Johnson and his men arrive at a train station. He tells a henchman to buy tickets for the next train, since they need to keep moving. The henchman annoys Johnson and he almost kills him, but stops when he sees witnesses around. While on the train, Johnson calls Vasilev and lets him speak with Valentina. Tarconis cops are able to trace Johnsons location to the train. Franks car starts again, and he speeds off to save Valentina. Johnson says that he really hates violence, since it causes more problems than solutions, but sometimes its necessary to get what you want. Valentina then sees that Frank is driving alongside the train and smiles. Frank drives up ahead to a bridge and then drives off it, landing on top of the train. He jumps through a window and is fired upon by the henchmen. Johnson holds Valentina at gunpoint, but she bites his hand and runs off into the other cabs. Frank kicks a helmet at a goons face, grabs a machine gun, and kills all the henchmen. Johnson gets to Valentina again, and Frank runs after him. However, he is forced to stop due to being 75 feet from the car. Johnson dares Frank to takes one more step, but Frank runs away.While Tarconi and the cops give chase to the train, they see Frank climb on top of the train and climb back into his car. Johnson separates the cabs so that Franks section drifts away from them. Frank manages to drive his car from the top of the train into the cab where Johnson and Valentina are. Frank then gets out and beats the hell out of Johnson. He tries to stab Frank with a knife, but Frank knocks it away and continues to beat him. Johnson lands on the car and Frank grabs the key to remove his bomb. He then ties Johnsons arm to the car, straps the bomb to his wrist, and puts the car in reverse. Johnson panics and gets his arm loose from the car before it falls off the train. He then realizes that he shouldve stayed with the car, since he becomes 75 feet from it. Johnson explodes, causing the train to come to a halt. Frank finds Valentina and kisses her. Tarconi rescues them and calls Vasilev, telling him that his daughter is safe. Vasilev rips up the contract, and the ship from the beginning is raided by the police. Some time later, we see Frank and Tarconi fishing again in the ocean. Tarconi notes that Frank is changing, and we see that Valentina is with them, sunbathing on the boat. The film ends with Valentina telling them what she wants to eat.

Tags: murder, stupid, violence, flashback, psychedelic, action, entertaining

Review:
They completely took the humour out of all the potentially very humorous moments through the more 'arty' editing, over the top score dramatic score (soundtrack definitely plays a big part of the different tone in the 3rd movie) and generally lousy script.This leads on to the pacing, which is far too slow at times.
Jason Statham is capable but the script can't really be saved here.So, a dramatically more realistic Transporter movie but sucked dry of all the humorous and fun tone that made the previous instalments so much fun.
As far as action films go it ticked all the boxes, plenty of guns, car stunts, good fights, romance and even some corny humour, and has a happy ending .........what do people expect ..........Sir Laurence Olivier doing bloody Hamlet?
Natalya could have been a fun character, without the bad accent and romantic twist to the plot.Please give us a Transporter 4 more in line with the previous two films!!.
Transporter 3 is over-the-top and cheesy at times, but if you don't mind those things in an action movie, then there is much entertainment to be found here..
Ready to watch an average entertaining movie, I didn't expect to see the best of the Transporter sequels.For once the script has been designed carefully, action and fight scenes happen logically, there is true suspense and we believe in the story.
Camera effects give fights some necessary depth, compared to other movies.The best of Luc Besson back at work.Do not pay too much attention to the low rating: It looks like the Transporter aficionados - used to pure raw action/no story "Chuck Norris" like - were disappointed.
Well, this is probably the best thing that could happen to this movie: Transporter 3 definitely got its level upgraded and targets a different audience.My advice to the producer: keep on the good work, and create a new movie based on the same pattern, but just don't name it "Transporter 4", so that you don't disappoint the "Missing in action" fans..
Created and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen for three installments so far, the character of Frank Martin is a roguish looking strongman with a penchant for suiting up when going about being the best of the best in personalized delivery, with no questions asked, no names, and a whole host of other rules which he will of course break during the course of the movie.Like Bond, he drives a cool, sponsored signature car.
And when he gets the chance to, it's the same old one-man-surrounded-by-thugs routine where he effortlessly dispatches them all with aplomb.Such fight scenes are becoming common in The Transporter franchise, and Corey Yeun definitely needs to rejuvenate his action sequences designed for the franchise pronto.
And apart from that, we get the usual complementary car chases which seem to be rather standard with the usual camera shots and angles capturing the action too.Fans of the series and of Statham will no doubt make a bee line at the box office for this, but I suspect that should there be any more thoughts on extending the franchise beyond the three films, then while the formulaic plot format can be kept, the action better be innovative because nobody likes seeing the same thing twice.
Riding on after the fun and at times hilariously over-the-top "Transporter 2", Jason Statham is back as Frank Martin, aka, The Transporter in "Transporter 3." And, if you enjoyed the previous films, I can guarantee you will love this ride of mayhem.This time around, Martin has been kidnapped and forced into his new job by Robert Knepper's character, the villain known only as 'Johnson.' Johnson has slapped a chemical-bomb-bracelet onto Martin which will explode if he strays from his car by more than 75-feet- an insurance policy to make sure he completes his task- transporting a sexy young woman named Valentina (Natalya Rudakova) and two mysterious bags throughout parts of Europe, for reasons unknown.
While not as show-offish as the previous film, which had action in every-other-scene, this entry in the series definitely has its share of fist-fights and car-chases, explosions and gun-battles.
Though I will say the camera-work is sometimes sub-par, and sometimes a little too "Jason Bourne Shaky." But overall, if I wasn't told any different, I'd assume Leterrier was still directing, which is good, because a series like this should generally feel consistent.The story itself (written by "Transporter" and "Transporter 2" scribes Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen) is halfway decent for a silly, PG-13 action-fest, and ends up being much better than most will give it credit for.
I think this series, and particularly Statham, are not getting the attention they deserve.All-in-all, I liked "Transporter 3", it was a great ride filled with good action, cool characters and a silly but decent, cliché-ridden story.
I liked the previous Transporter films and this one is the best out of all of them not mainly because of the action but because this one had a better story-line than the first two.
The story is about Frank Martin has been pressured into transporting Valentina (by using a device which prevents him from moving 75 feet from his car or the bomb explodes) the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for Ukraine, from Marseilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea. Along the way, with the help of Inspector Tarconi, Frank has to contend with the people who strong armed him to take the job, agents sent by Vasilev to intercept him, and the general non-cooperation of his passenger.
Statham again drives an armoured Audi S8 in the film.Other than the story the movie was loaded with ultra cool action sequences and spectacular stunts that will keep you in the edge of your seat.
I'm generally not really keen in action movies because they are all the same but Transporter 3 is different and I had a good time watching it.
After my crabbing that Quantum of Solace didn't give me the James Bond rush I expected from the series, I happily saw Transporter 3 with Jason Statham's taciturn, scowling super Fed-Ex-like operative, Frank Martin.He's low-rent Bond, but more Bond than Daniel Craig's current revenge-seeking, brooding, post-modern version of the ol' happy-go -fornicating super agent made mythic by the ironic Sean Connery version.
Critics criticize the Transporter films for the action being to unreal, well that is the point, it's not supposed to be taken seriously, It's just meant to be popcorn fun, nothing else.The best in the business is back, Frank Martin(Jason Statham) is kidnapped and knocked out, when he wakes up, he finds he has a bracelet attached to his arm, he finds he must deliver a package, and is told the bracelet on his arm is a bomb, and if he gets too far from his car, he will explode.
Will he get out of this alive, or will this be the last of Frank Martin, you'll half to see the movie to find out.The action was ten time more greater, and the fight were more intense also.
Jason Statham is top-notch as action hero who specializes moving goods of all kinds ,he's a tough man fighting stunningly .
More fast and furious action from Jason Statham, directed in this outing by Olivier Megaton (is that name for real?) The "Transporter" series is the bargain bin version of the James Bond films, but I enjoyed this film way more than the latest Bond, "Quantum of Solace." This installment exists as nothing more than a Jason Statham fetish movie.
The rambling conversations between the two leads (which probably take up 70% of the film) are completely pointless doing nothing to further the plot, resolve any conflict, and they certainly fail to entertain.During a fight scene there are no less than 10 cuts where they show her for a few seconds and she raises her eyebrows while ogling Statham.
By the end of the scene you want to cover your eyes each time they show her on the screen.By the point in the movie that Statham is strip-teasing for her, you're ready to head to the concession stand in the hopes they sell cyanide pills.
With the third instalment, new director Olivier Megaton fails to reach the heights of the second; and has created a bland and curiously empty entry.I am not what you would call a fan of the Transporter series; the first was dumb to a delirious extent, and the second while unbelievable incorporated more frequent action as well as a plot far too creative for what a film of such ilk deserved.
As such, we are left with a sans plot flick, light on action and the resulting product is less then engrossing.As we always do, we meet up with Frank Martin (Jason Statham), this time vacationing in Marseilles, fishing with his long-time friend Inspector Tarconi (Francois Berleand).
There was zero tension in the final confrontation between Frank Martin and Mr. Johnson, only the passage of time between the beginning of the confrontation and the obvious conclusion.As I said, I didn't have high expectations for this film, but I was looking forward to Jason Statham driving a car and kicking ass.
The is a pointless sex scene midway through which I think was there as a MacGuffin but fails and only takes from the characters.Had this been the first in the series, there may never have been a sequel, as it is, it's a poor follow up to the previous movies, lacking in action and direction.
I'll start off by saying that the first two Transporter films are 2 of my favorite action movies of the decade.
So it saddens me to say that the greatness of the Transporter series ends with the third installment, but it has nothing to do with Statham, who is at his best once again as the title character.When you've got a movie directed by a guy whose last name is 'Megaton', you know there's bound to be problems.
Saying a thing like this in a movie that is shown widely in both countries should really cost the writer a couple of hard burns in hell.The scene where Statham drives away from a Mercedes on a country road with the slut being drunk, giggling stupidly and turning the volume dial makes me want her character to die instantly even more than the constantly whining stupid boy from "The War of the Worlds"..
People were laughing during the love scenes at my screening, and I have to say, some of the lines were so unbelievable they made me cringe.The action sequences were great, but there were many times when the movie dragged on (hard to believe for being such a short film), and the action scenes couldn't make up for it.
The place where it needs to be original and truly creative is in the action scenes, that's why people will bother to see this movie, after all.And that's where "Transporter 3" fails and sinks into the mediocre depths that the two films preceding it enjoyably leaped over.
In "Transporter 3," Jason Statham returns to his signature role as Frank Martin, a professional courier and martial arts expert who delivers valuable packages for an exorbitant fee, "no questions asked." In this installment, he's actually being forced to drive some mysterious item from the South of France to Ukraine, accompanied by a freckle-faced cutie (Natalya Rudakova) whose mascara keeps running and who may actually be of more value than what is in the trunk.Despite the pretty scenery, "Transporter 3" is driven into the ground by a barely coherent storyline, near-comical chase and action sequences, and enough scowling Russian bad guys to single-handedly re-ignite the Cold War. Even Olivier Megaton's flashy, hurdy-gurdy directorial style can't jump-start a moribund gimmick that actually feels ripped-off from the far superior "Speed." Actually, one suspects that the real, unstated goal of the movie is to find as many reasons as possible for Statham to take his shirt off.A ludicrous time-waster..
Transporter3 doesn't fare any where near to the previous ones in the transporter series.The poor script can only be blamed for its failure to catch the eye of the viewers at the box office.Lack of a proper plot is evident from the incoherent scenes in the film.The duologue's are out of context many a time and hence dragging.Action sequences are a way too over the top and gives one the feeling that the stunts could have been more realistic.Statham has reiterated that he still has it in him to do daring stunts even at dis age of his.The character Valentina is the one that is the most annoying aspect of the film.An animated character which keeps on blathering all the time makes u lose interest in the film.The director could have portrayed the girl alongside Statham in a much better way.Some of the action scenes haven't even been properly thought out, thus inviting the viewers to ridicule these no sense scenes.The Audi car bumping onto the backside of a running train making its way right into it with ease wud have been difficult for even the makers of Audi to fathom.There are enough scenes in the film that anyone wud be able to point out in-order to state the flaws in its making.I wouldn't have wanted such a worthless film to be made for the transporter series considering the acclaim it had received for the previous flicks.Rather than going on a spree of making sequels without a clear cut story that cannot live up to the standard of its prequels,it would be cleverer for the directors to label it as a new offspring which would at least deter any cloud from shadowing the the series as a whole..
Either way, I saw 'Part 3' was on an online streaming service and decided to give it another go.Now, I think most of us won't expect the third outing of a B-movie type action franchise to rival Shakespeare, but - this time - I found it really good fun.
If you've seen either of the previous instalments then you'll know the drill: Jason 'The Stath' Statham plays a practically indestructible hero, Frank Martin, as he has to 'transport' a 'package' from Point to Point B.
I watch this movie last night and I love frank Martin and the transporter series.
Starting out with an unnecessary opening montage of cross-cuts between the character of Frank Martin, portrayed by perfectly in shape actor Jason Statham in his forerunner role, gone fishing and a tight alley car chasing enriched with cheap looking flashing forward cuts to save screen-time, the third installment of the "Transporter" movie series (2002-2008) can hardly come to pace before at approximately 00h22min the new mission for driver Frank Martin gets gun-to-the-head presented by a fairly performing antagonist under actor Robert Knepper, and becomes clarified; repetitive martial arts scenes choreographed by specialist Cory Yuen, who is not able to bring anything new to table for this picture, after extraordinary full contact action work for the first two installments, which saves "Transporter 3" only over some chemistry slowly build between actor Jason Statham and actress Natalya Rudakova as the character of Valentina and one of three car chases over an open country road toward a tumbling cliff before the first kiss between Frank & Valentina takes place, prevailing the otherwise poor script by producer Luc Besson and writer Robert Mark Kamen of being a fall-out with director Louis Letterier left to direct "The Incredible Hulk" (2008) and Olivier Megaton filling in as director uneventfully.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC).
I did not like either of the first 2 films , many plot holes , scenes completely clueless , special effects very bad .Today saw the third film without expecting good thing , but I was surprised .A very good and intelligent story , with a good connection between all the characters without too many plot holes .Well done fight scenes ( unique feature that I liked in the first 2 films )Good soundtrack .Negative point for me, bad special computerized effects in some scenes and screen plays, and tricks impossible as the car on 2 wheels for so long for example.For those who want to entertain with a good action movie and adrenaline , recommend , far more than the other first two films.7/10 Conrade !.
Jason Statham is his usual cool, cheeky self, losing his shirt several times and is just bad-ass sexy.I also enjoyed Natalya Rudakova as his love interest, she grew on me as the film progressed, unique looking girl.
Jason Statham is my favorite actor, and I love the transporter series, but this is ridiculous, she ruined the whole movie for me, it made me super ticked.
I remember one day when my brother in law told me to watch this great movie with action and fighting and the like and told me i wouldn't be disappointed.
Jason Statham is not a bad actor for action movies, but I think he should park his car and head for other things.
Transporter 3 is an action film starring Jason Statham as the no-nonsense hire-for-anything driver lead character.
Felt almost amateurish, and the car scene with the two trucks was filmed good but completely ruined by the editor.If you did not like the previous ones, you will definitely be disappointed.Music choices were good, Jason does his part, and the French cop probably the best actor in the movie.
I Am a huge fan of Jason statham and seen most of his movies, this one however was one that i just watched Last Night, i loved the first Transporter and The second was OK and enjoyable But this one....
First things first The Transporter was a great little action movie over the top sure but very enjoyable.
The only other thing I could find wrong with the movie was the fact that the film tried to give a environmental friendly feel (don't ask).There's one thing (other than Statham) that makes the Transporter series so great.