I purchased this previously unseen as a rental or on a commercial screen.
I'm serious about my movie watching have all the bell and whistles to re create
the theater experience and get the best out of a film. It didn't help here. I'm
afraid the curse of the sequel has finally hit this franchise. “The
Transporter” (2002) directed by Corey Yuen brought a new type of action hero
to the screen. “Transporter 2” (2005) built on the original with director,
Louis Leterier taking the action to the limit of plausibility but retaining the
fun and “rush a minute” atmosphere. This latest effort from director Oliver
Megaton misses by a mile. The story line feels a little like a dated gangster
flick and is somewhat ploddy. The “love interest” is so irritating you
almost wish for her demise, but it is with the action sequences, which are at
the heart of Transporter,
where the real problems reside. The frantic pace of the photography is not for
any one who suffers motion sickness. In an attempt to capture fast paced action,
director Megaton has managed to present sequences that appear little more than a
series of stills. A quick count revealed up to three camera angle shots per
second of film effectively disjointing the flow of the sequence. A typical
example is a scene in which Frank (Statham) drives a car off a road bridge and
onto a moving train. There is a shot of the car on the bridge, leaving the
bridge and one more after the landing, again a series of stills that leave you
feeling cheated out of seeing the whole stunt. Now, all that said it is still ok
as a movie its just not up to the Transporter legacy left by the previous
directors. Many of you will like it so go ahead and enjoy but be warned it is
for the die hard fan or those with lots of anti nausea medication.
