Brief flashes of fun are found within the close quarters combat sequences with how Frank disposes of enemies, but more often than not the battles rage on for far too long subsequently making the endeavor tedious. Frank has to drive underneath a plane at a dangerously high-speed while collecting cargo, and it’s probably the only exciting moment The Transporter Refueled musters up. To be fair, there is one adrenaline pumping sequence at an airport which does involve a great degree of creativity. It’s so jarring and awkward that it comes across as French tourism For whatever reason the editing also loves to cut to overhead views of the city during what should be thrilling vehicle chases. Shootouts are undoubtedly the worst of the bunch however, leaving you wondering who is even getting shot at and who is doing the shooting. The vehicle chases are nothing more than product placement and police cars colliding with one another after Frank pulls off swift swerving. Many of the hand-to-hand fight scenes are indecipherable thanks to an overabundance of quick-cut editing allowing viewers to never really get a feel for any of the punches, kicks or weapon swings being hurled. And while there is plenty of carnage, very little of it amounts to anything entertaining. The ending scene literally involves Frank asking if all the dead bodies was worth the price of vengeance, only for him to seemingly shrug off his love interest’s tears by making out with her truly an out-of-place moment.Īdmittedly, no one probably gives a damn about political correctness coming into a switch your brain off at the door action flick like this, so the least the movie could have gotten right was integrating in some dazzling set pieces of violence. Yes, tortured souls from illegal prostitution and Russian gangsters fall for The Transporter and his father because hey, they kick ass at their job and save the day. That’s all well and good but the movie takes an unbelievably sexist turn when everyone, to put it bluntly, eventually gets down and dirty with one another. The movie involves a group of four dangerous women using Frank against his will (his father is kidnapped and poisoned with only the femme fatales in possession of the antidote) to help them get revenge on the major players of a prostitution ring that they were forced into at an early age. There is no creativity or originality here, just a lazy approach to breathing some life back into a franchise that not even Jason Statham himself probably cares about anymore.įurthermore, it’s just a nonsensical affair that loves assaulting your brain.
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Why not tell us the story of a new driver? Maybe broaden the scope of the universe and showcase a whole operation of Transporters similar to the James Bond franchise to freshen up a series that is already a rotten corpse. More baffling is that the character of Frank isn’t even replaced The Transporter Refueled lazily tries to pass off Ed Skrein as Jason Statham. Maybe if the studio had gotten a semi-revered and high-profile actor on board, or even a rookie capable of matching Statham’s stoic no-nonsense charm, the stupidity would be easier to swallow, but grabbing random Game of Thrones alumni Ed Skrein isn’t exactly a sell for a supposed new trilogy kickstarter. Why does The Transporter Refueled exist? No one begged for it let alone asked for it, and whatever interest potentially left evaporated once Jason Statham was replaced from the role that played a heavy hand in catapulting his career into action hero stardom. In the south of France, former special-ops mercenary Frank Martin enters into a game of chess with a femme-fatale and her three sidekicks who are looking for revenge against a sinister Russian kingpin. The release date of The Transporter Refueled is set to June 19, 2015.Starring Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Radivoje Bukvic, Anatole Tubman, Gabriella Wright, Loan Chabanol and Tatiana Pajkovic. The film does feel like a Transporter movie! But it’s kind of hard to get used to Ed Skrein’s pretty face… he’s no manly action star like Jason Statham. The stakes are greater and technology better, but the same three simple rules apply: never change the deal, no names and never open the package.” “The producers of Lucy and the Taken trilogy bring you the next adrenaline-fueled installment of The Transporter series, THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED, starring newcomer Ed Skrein as Frank Martin, the most highly-skilled transporter money can buy. Check out the first official trailer of The Transporter Refueled (previously titled The Transporter Legacy), the upcoming Transporter action movie prequel directed by Camille Delamarre and starring Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Radivoje Bukvic, Gabriella Wright, Anatole Taubman, and Tatiana Pajkovic: