The Transporter (DVD)

Awsm movieGreat action,very entertainingJason rokzzz...I wanna see the movie again and ag a in .I m loving it

Dialogues ,Hero characterization and simple flat in great production values

My sony Bluray player BDP S1500 has region support C and this DVD was not compatible.

The review is not for the movie but for the dvd itself. Received a region 3 dvd from New Super star selection instead of region 5. Cant play on my player. Sad part is we cant return the disk

cant say as its a xmas present for somebody

Jason Statham began his solo action hero career with a film made by two diverse kings of cool cinema: writer Luc Besson and director Corey Yuen, the latter making his return to American cinema over a decade after his contributions to the No Retreat, No Surrender series. With such a collection of talent to drive the production, a guy like me expected great things, but ended up sort of disappointed. It's hard to criticize the film since there's nothing really wrong with it and it has some really cool moments, but overall it seems to merely graze the target instead of nailing it.The story: Frank Martin (Statham, The Expendables) is a transporter - an expert auto driver and fighting machine who'll deliver anything in his car, even armed bank robbers making their getaway, if the price is right - who finds himself caught up in a deadly game of human trafficking when he finds out that his latest delivery is a kidnapped young woman (Qi Shu, Gorgeous) with knowledge of a massive moving operation of immigrant slaves...Since his solo debut with this movie, Jason Statham has been the only performer in the last decade-and-a-half of Hollywood who's consistently thrown himself into the role of action hero. Forget Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel, and even Sylvester Stallone - none of them can match Statham's track record, and he has a considerable leg up on them thanks to his indulgence in martial arts. With that said, while he does pretty good drama-wise, his physical talents don't seem fully realized here. The fight scenes compose only about 50% of the film's total action content, but as the attraction I was most looking forward to, their lack of consistency weighs more heavily on this review than it might on others. While I liked the fight on the bus and got a kick out of the oily garage brawl, all of the encounters seem overly reliant on dreadful quick-cut editing, and at least the first one also indulges in debilitating close-ups. Statham's kicks are nice, but the nicest of them - a sort of flipping dropkick - was almost definitely performed by a double. The vehicle scenes are pretty good also, with the highway chase drawing parallels to the one in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but they're not what I'm after.The story and characterizations are stronger than you'd expect from a run-of-the-mill action flick, and what else would you expect with Luc Besson behind the pen? The relationship between Statham's character and Qi Shu's is nice, despite including mandatory out-of-nowhere sex, and I love how endlessly hammy and obviously evil the main villain played by Matt Schulze is. He'd pretty much play the same role two years later against Steven Seagal in Out of Reach, but it's a bit more refined here and able to be taken seriously. With that said, the film definitely has a problem with its pacing - the finale really sort of sneaks up on you - and I can't help but reference that indecisive feeling of unfulfillment that comes with movies that Besson wrote/produced but didn't direct. The man got so much juice out of films like Leon and La Femme Nikita, whereas in comparison something like this that has his handprint on it but not his auteurship sort of feels like a full-course meal that was interrupted midway through. Corey Yuen is my favorite action director of all, but drama- and development-wise he just can't hold a candle to what ol' Luc can do (co-director Lous Leterrier would do much better on his own three years later, when he directed Besson's Jet Li vehicle Unleashed).In a surprising turn, the film's PG-13 rating doesn't work against it: blood and excessive language isn't missed. It's a decent action movie and probably more accessible to general viewers than any number of other offerings from both Statham and Yuen, but it's definitely not the best work of anybody involved. Rent it, first.

The movie starts out with a good car chase scenes set in a foreign country. Frank, the star of our movie is a "transporter" that is, a driver. A driver for robberies and a driver that delivered packages, no questions asked. Our man is hired to deliver a package that is loaded into the truck of his car. When he gets a flat, he sees that the package is moving. He instantly knows what it is, it is a person. He breaks his own rule and looks into the package and sees a pretty young woman. But, being a man of business he delivers the package to its destination anyway. Where he is asked to transport another package. Little does he know his knew package is a bomb, designed to take him out of the equation, leaving no witnesses to his delivery. He goes back to exact his vengeance and steal car similar to the one they blew up on him. He takes the young woman back to his place to try and figure out what to do.Before he can figure out his options his home is destroyed in a second attempt on his life. Once again, Frank escapes. Once again, against his judgement he decides to get involved and realizes quickly he is in deep. He finds out that the bad guys are smuggling illegals from the far east. With the help of a local police chief he starts his campaign. Lots of action in this moving, car chases, explosions, guns, martial arts but without the goofy one liners that many of the newer movies have. Frank is a quiet ex-military man who always gets the job done. And once again, he gets the job done.This is an action packed movie that never crosses into the unrealistic. No wires tied to the martial arts combatants and the like. Watch this underrated movie and enjoy, if you like this type.

OK - a good deal of fight scenes and chases cross the lines of belivability (after all, it is just a movie), but both the chase scenes and the fight scenes are delightful to watch as are several of the actors.Jason Statham, plays Frank - a transporter who will transport anything without asking any unnecessary questions and following few simple rules - one of which is never to look into packages he is transporting.His problems begin when he decides to take a look, because in the package he was transporting there was obviously something alive and moving. The package is a chinese girl Lai (played by delightful Shu Qi), whose father is involved in smugling Chinese slaves. She wants to stop his father and in a process involves the transporter, who happens to be very well trained in combat. Here the chase and the non-stop action begin with one good guy fighting against a whole organized gang of bad guys.Other than the chases and fight scenes, and in spite of the unbelievable scenes, I liked the Frank's character - his head is screwed on right - he is focused on what he is doing, he is well-organized, he plans whatever can be planned and when things don't work out, he just moves on - there is no waste of time or energy on bemoaning one's destiny or planning vengance for damages suffered. If something is gone, you simply create a new thing and a new life - a healthy attitude.

While this by far is not the greatest movie of all time.....you would be hard pressed to find a movie with more action and weaponry and car chase scenes (all good stuff). The plot is great as is the cinematography but the acting by Jason Statham is somewhat mechanical while the acting of Matt Schulze is the best in the movie. There's so much action that there's not much time for the actors to explore the characters. The entire movie is basically a collage of short filmed action snippets, but it works. The cinematography is excellent for what at the time was a low budget movie. Luc Besson at Europacorp produced the movie and he is an expert and efficient movie making. On the official Transporter movie website ([...] there is a staggering amount of information on the production of this film. They list all the weapons used (by type and name) and there was over 100 weapons (props) used in the production! I love this movie! The quicker you sit down and realize it's a low budget film with many continuity errors and poor acting the quicker you can get to enjoying the movie! It's hard to NOT like this film as it's just a fun film to watch.