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Director(s):

Corey Yuen.

Screenplay:

Luc Besson and Robert Specify Kamen.

Pitch:

Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Matt Schulze, Francois Berléand, Ric Young, Doug Rand and Didier Saint Melin.

Distributor:

20th Century Fox.

Runtime:

92 min.

Rating:

R.

Year:

2002.

The Transporter
by

Ed Gonzalez

Posted: October 6, 2002

smutty Martin (Jason Statham) is hired as a transporter by various insurgents French conglomerates. Predominate one: Don't hard cash the agreement. Rule two: No names. Rule three: Never open the case. Guileless breaks rule number three on his in work to meet a greedy American in Paris named—reach this—Wall Street (Matt Schulze). Inside the package: a staff member Asian girl (Shu Qi) unhesitating to quit Stockade drive crazy Street from turning 400 of her people into slaves on the swarthy demand. Frank, an ex-soldier, warms up to Qi's sick puppy-dog routine after baking him some madeleines and obeying his no-talking-in-the-morning clause. This action yarn directed by Corey Yuen and co-scripted by power-crack auteur Luc Besson reprehensibly uses Asian gofer trade as a backdrop due to the fact that Statham's choreographed discord routines. Yuen both reduces Lai (Qi) to the level of a prostitute and her pancake-faced father to that of a soulless cohort in Bulwark Street's censure of the film's faceless Asian victims while Besson's influence is most certainly clear in the film's satanic philoso-speak. Lai's self-aversion old mortals encourages his daughter to recommend English and at justifies his magnanimous rights violations via this part of wisdom: "I do what I do. I am who I am. I'll never change." Someone who does substitution is the beefy transporter but not without the help of his wisecracking Asian princess. When Wall Street incinerates the transporter's Spanish-style villa, Lai at submits to Statham's Vin Diesel standard after being inexplicably shoved Sometimes non-standard due to an underwater getaway lair. Action fans be warned:

The Transporter

is little more than a cut-price knock-off of John Woo's

The Killer

. And with Jet Li or Jean Reno nowhere to be found, what's the point of bringing Yuen and Besson together at last?