Transporter 3
Frank Martin has been transporting Valentina, the daughter of Leonid Vasilev, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the 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.
3 October 1967, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
27 October 1973, Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Netherlands
22 April 1952, Paris, France
21 November 1973, Zadar, Croatia
5 December 1944, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
8 May 1947, Versailles, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France
March 21, 2011
Usually stuff like this gets mercifully relegated to the 2 A.M. slot on HBO next to most recent Steven Seagal masterpiece. But The Transporter series has managed to gather enough of an audience for Lionsgate to inflict it on us every so often.
December 17, 2009
The first film was slick, the second one silly, but at least we knew what was going on during those action beats.
November 26, 2008
It's hard not to smile.
August 02, 2009
A 'what not to do' guide when making an action film.
November 26, 2008
Somehow Statham comes out of this improbable thriller with his dignity intact. With classic action-hero qualities and dry wit, he seems woefully under-employed as a deliveryman.
December 02, 2008
I had less problems with the characters and more trouble with the actual action, which felt really antiseptic to me.
April 05, 2011
For fans of Jason Statham and classic carsploitation action films.
November 26, 2008
You know a series is in trouble when it begins mocking its own premise. Frank's obsessive rules about who, what and how he transports stuff are ruthlessly violated.
June 29, 2010
Delivers what it promises.
December 05, 2008
The flashy editing gets on one's wick and no one's going to win an Oscar - but, really, who's complaining? This is straight-up fisticuff fun.
August 30, 2009
Transporter 3 is the cinematic equivalent of cotton candy: a quick sugar rush that melts in your mouth and is forgotten five minutes later.
