The villain’s a non-entity, or a collection of non-entities.Īnd the car? Yaaaaaawn. Skrein’s entire voice track feels removed from the others sharing scenes with him (“Ed, please, another loop and MORE HOARSE whispery!”). Some actors show signs of being dubbed into English. The hookers’ “All for one and one for all” “Three Musketeers” quotes are…laughable. Yeah, she was bleeding out and all they managed to do was patch the surface wound. That field-improvised trauma surgery on one leggy larcenist is quickly forgotten. Not much of a spy, if Robert Palmer’s backup bandcan get the drop on him.īut don’t think about this one too much. The blonde-bewigged black mini-dressed hookers kidnap Frank’s ex-spy dad (Ray Stevenson).
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“People always need guys like me,” the Transporter grins.Ī gang of impossibly skinny stiletto-heeled hookers needs a driver to pull off heists against their Eastern European pimp ( Radivoje Bukvic). There’s no mention of previous Transporters, just a new guy playing Frank Martin, ex-British military, making a very nice living in the nice confines of Nice, Monte Carlo and the French Riviera. But it’s the CAR, a James Bond-modified Audi S8 that gets the heroic entrance, a fetishized 360 pan straight out of a TV commercial - or “Top Gear” wet dream. Then there’s the way editor-turned-director Camille Delamarre introduces him. So Ed Skrein, from “Game of Thrones,” “The Sweeney” and “Northmen - A Viking Saga,” is up against it right out of the gate. But could anybody else have managed the martial arts brawls, the scowls, the growl? Sure, Clive Owen managed a fair impersonation of one in those BMW commercials (short movies) that came out shortly after Statham and Luc Besson’s Man-of-Few-Words getaway driver in France film opened.