The Transporter mini movie review

I really like the fact that in Luc Besson films cars almost always explode immediately on impact with anything and that his heroes and villains can do the crazy shit that they do. These are Hong Kong Kung Fu films with a western flair, where everyone magically knows how to fight with anything at hand and any manner of crazy physical action is possible.

In this film Jason Statham is the titular Transporter who breaks his own rules by looking at the package, which happens to be an attractive young lady. General action movie nonsense plot follows made believable by Besson’s true to it’s world writing. To be honest I wasn’t really listening to most of the dialogue about what was happening in this movie, I was just delighting in how impossibly cool Statham’s character is. He is reminiscent of Bruce Willis in the Die Hard series cool, unflappably cool, but cracking wise the entire time.

The fight scenes are inventive, such as the one on an oil-slicked floor, or the one in the narrow confines of a stockyard of cargo containers. Statham is believable, even if some of the villains aren’t.

“He was a bastard, but he was still my father.” It’s dialogue like that that makes movies like this one great.