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Like Frank himself and Statham's current role as Fast and Furious' Deckard Shaw, The Transporter is as confident as an action movie can get. Tasked with transporting a duffel bag, Frank breaks his rule of leaving the package unopened after seeing it move, discovering the bound Lai (Shu Qi) inside, and learns that Lai's father (Ric Young) is running a human trafficking operation through France. As Valentina, Natalya Rudakova at least makes a fairly respectable debut as a first-time actress, but the rest of Transporter 3 is sadly not up to snuff.Ģ002's sleeper action hit The Transporter kicked Jason Statham into the mainstream as the world's most famous cockney butt-kicker and introduced Frank Martin as a courier with a code. Fight scenes that could've been hard-hitting and exhilarating showdowns like those with Jean-Claude Van Damme's fighting style, such as Frank taking on an entire gang of henchmen in an auto garage after trying to free himself of the explosive bracelet, are reduced to blurs of incoherent fisticuffs, the cuts and camerawork tearing every action scene to shreds. On paper, Transporter 3 puts a Crank-like spin on his mission, but the gimmick isn't exploited for the kind of pins-and-needles stakes it could bring to Frank's usual talent for improvising his way out of tight spots.Įven worse, after two predecessors full of outstanding fight and chase sequences, Transporter 3 heavily indulges in every action fan's worst nightmare, the dreaded shaky-cam and its evil twin, excessively fast editing. For the third movie, Frank is coerced into transporting a young woman named Valentina (Natalya Rudakova) to Budapest, with an explosive bracelet affixed to his arm. Frank Martin leaped from 20th Century Fox to Lionsgate with 2008's Transporter 3, and despite Statham being committed as ever, it's the low point of the initial trilogy.