Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Hunter Clary

Professional driver Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policymaker and his family. The young boy in th...( read more  read more... )e family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 28 min.

Directed by: Louis Leterrier

Release Date: September 2, 2005

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DVD Release Date: January 10, 2006

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  • June 18, 2009
    "Have a good life. What's left of it."

    Jason Statham is the unlikeliest of high-octane action heroes. He's a stocky, ordinary-looking Englishman who doesn't come off all that swift. But as the ex-Special Forces operative Frank Martin, the impeccably dressed, blank-faced ...( read more)professional driver in The Transporter and its sequel, with more tricks - and lives - than James Bond, he's struck gold with a franchise-spawning role. The part allows for the exhibition of some impressive martial-arts skills (he performs almost all his own stunts) while requiring very little in the acting department.

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    I'll keep this short and sweet: Transporter 2 is precisely what it looks like, which means you won't get a whole lot of brilliant surprises, but if you watched the trailer and thought "Hey, neat-o," then the flick will capably deliver what you're expecting: car chases, gun battles, and fast-paced fisticuffs up the wazoo. You're looking for deep thoughts, well-constructed characters, and a narrative arc that's not insane? Go to the DVD shelf and pick another film. Transporter 2 is the flick to watch when you're in the mood for some fun, simple as that. And it manages to give a lot, at least in the high-octane lunacy department.

    After relocating to Miami from the dreamy French seaside, where the Euro-chic first film was set, Frank accepts a short-term assignment chauffeuring a wealthy family's young son. But before long, the boy, for whom Frank has developed a soft spot, is kidnapped and injected with a deadly contagious virus, intended to be passed along to his self-absorbed father (Matthew Modine, in an exceedingly thankless role) and his drug-enforcement colleagues. Frank, whose life is governed by his own strict set of rules, vows to save the boy's life and proceeds to do whatever it takes (the more insanely implausible, the better) to keep his word, while being aggressively pursued by the police, who believe Frank is in on the crime.

    Taking over directing duties from Corey Yuen, who was responsible for the first film but, thankfully, did the martial-arts choreography here, is Louis Leterrier, son of the legendary French director François Leterrier - and clearly the right man for the job. In addition to serving as artistic director on the first instalment, he also directed Luc Besson's Jet Li vehicle Danny the Dog, released in 2005 as well.

    Purely shallow but never dull, the film wisely pushes the limits of absurdity (more than the first film) to the extreme, making it easier to submit to its sheer camp. But even with all thought processes deactivated, it's hard to tolerate the main female baddie (the American newcomer Kate Nauta), who struts around in lingerie and red stilettos, toting large guns, while delivering one of the worst performances since Milla Jovovich, another clothing-deprived supermodel-turned-actress, appeared in Besson's Fifth Element. That's my only real complaint about Transporter 2. I'm sure there were hundreds of aspiring actresses capable of doing a better job (both acting and looking hot), they just had to look for her.

    This is Statham's show all the way, and the irrepressibly intense Londoner has worked pretty hard to build himself a body of work that yells "bad ass character actor." With someone else on board as the transporter, this series could prove to be a fairly interminable chore. But Statham's got gravelly grit and slick screen presence by the bucketful, and it's easy to just enjoy the guy's no-bullshit performance as the kinetic lunacy continues unabated.

    Transporter 2 is, all things said and done, a perfectly outlandish and tight-knuckled little action flick, a mindless piece of well-hewn escapism that delivers several borderline-retarded moments of action mayhem - but does it with such style and attitude that one can't help but play along. While it's true that many of the action set-pieces found within come dangerously close to the outright stupidity found in lesser action films, there's a cocked eyebrow and tongue-in-cheek demeanour that clearly indicate the filmmakers are in on the joke. And while it's true that several of the loonier stunts will have you rolling your eyeballs in "oh, come on!" incredulity, the simple fact is that Transporter 2 is quick, crafty, and just kooky enough to make for a net, sunny afternoon of mindless fun with your friends.

    It's got an ultra-cool hero, an amazingly hot (albeit weepy) mum, a callous politico dad, a sneering villain with rotten teeth, a strangely sexy stick-figure of a henchwoman, and the always-welcome and nice Inspector Tarconi, reprised to perfection by François Berléand. It's all flash and no brains, but it's also a film that exists for one simple reason: to deliver 80-some minutes of slickly crafted and frequently off-the-wall action sequences. And just like Frank Martin himself, the film doesn't let up until those packages are delivered.
  • May 20, 2009
    Si vous avez aimer le premier, mais que vous êtes un peu rester sur votre appétit? Et bien celui là est pour vous! Beaucoup moins de temps morts, plus d'action, des scènes de combat encore plus enlevantes, à la Jackie Chan.
  • April 24, 2009
    Great sequel.
  • March 24, 2009
    Sure the story has been told a million times before in various forms and most of the stunts have been done before....but it's so much more fun when Frank Martin (Statham) does it.

    All of the "suave yet tough" attitude of James Bond with the crazy "anything goes" techniques of...( read more) Jackie Chan.

    Good (albeit mindless) action packed fun.
  • January 3, 2009
    "The Best In The Business Is Back In The Game."

    Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is a former special-forces officer who will transport anything anywhere for a price, and his latest assignment is acting as chauffeur for Jack Billings (Hunter Clary), the young son of politici...( read more)an Jefferson Billings (Matthew Modine), who has garnered no small amount of controversy for his aggressive efforts to stamp out the trade in illegal drugs. One day, Frank is to take Jack to the doctor for a checkup while his mother, Audrey (Amber Valletta), sets up a birthday party for the tyke. However, Jack's doctor is not who he appears to be -- he's actually Dimitri (Jason Flemyng), a Russian agent well versed in viruses who works with criminal kingpin Gianni (Alessandro Gassman). After a long and hard-fought chase with Frank, the bad guys get ahold of little Jack and hold him for ransom. The parents comply with their monetary demands and soon have their son back at home -- but little do they know that the boy has secretly been injected with a deadly and easily spread virus, which the terrorists hope to spread to the boy's powerful father and other politicians whom Jefferson will soon be addressing at a public event. When Frank learns what has happened to young Jack, he sets out to find the culprits -- and the antidote that will save the boy and all others who have been exposed to the virus from dying a painful death -- though his foes have stacked the deck so that it looks as if Frank has been complicit in the crime.

    Review
    Let me start by saying that I ranked the original Transporter a 7 out of 10. This one probably deserves a 5 out of 10, but I'm grading it a 6 for the film's energy, upbeat music, and for Jason Statham performing admirably with a less than stellar script. In general, there are some scenes that are just completely unrealistic, and I mean beyond the normal suspension of belief one normally checks at the door when seeing a movie. There is much less martial arts in this sequel, and the fight scenes are no way near the quality and cool feel of the original movie. And of course, just my opinion, but the first half of the movie seemed more crisp and the plot was okay, but the second part the plot just doesn't work as well, and it seems rushed and unsatisfying.
  • November 18, 2009
    "Even more Senseless-Pointless-Brainless Action. half the Brain anyway."
  • November 13, 2009
    Genial...la escena de la pelea usando la manguera del agua...genial
  • November 12, 2009
    out standing flick!!.
  • November 8, 2009
    I liked Jason Stratham in this movie. Really cool.
  • November 2, 2009
    Excellent action movie.I'm guarantee it will not boring.very exciting story.

Critic Reviews


September 2, 2005
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

With cartoon villains and cartoon victims all the lane-changing, gear-shifting, and wrong-way-on-the-freeway driving seems like a meaningless waste of time. full review

September 2, 2005
Kyle Smith, New York Post

Transporter 2 is faster than a speeding jet ski, more powerful than a hidden motive and cheesier than a Camembert factory. full review

September 2, 2005
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

An otherwise cruddy-looking assemblage of action-sequel clichés that benefits from Frank's dry-cleaned monosyllabic intensity but suffers from just about everything else. full review

September 1, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The sequel is a better film than the original, as if writer-producer Luc Besson had a clearer idea of what he wanted to do (and didn't want to do). full review

September 1, 2005
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Transporter 2 moves fast but goes nowhere -- it might be the first film to use a jet ski to jump the shark. full review

August 30, 2005
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

The Transporter 2 is a martial arts-obsessed action movie inadvertently reconceived as cartoonish parody. full review

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Comments


  • shirishhc1
    August 21, 2008
    That was not a ferrari. That was a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder or lamborghini Murcielago Roadster. Confused between the two but definitely not the ferrari
  • tkotowski
    July 5, 2007
    that was a ferrari
  • jberenty87
    May 30, 2007
    HEY GUYS GOT A QUESTION WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE CAR THAT HE WAS DRIVING AT THE END OF THE FILM THE ONE HE BLEW UP. THAT WAS THE BEST CAR I HAVE EVER SEEN LOVE IT.
  • LoveAndAdoreHardMaleNipples1
    May 16, 2007
    Same comments as with the first film just up a few notches higher in non stop action.
  • bigsisshirl
    January 29, 2007
    just as good as the first 1, mmmmmm hes soooooo hot
  • toebo23
    January 11, 2007
    Being a lover of the original movie I was really looking forward to the sequel and more adventures of the erstwhile Transporter (Jason Statham). Well I guess that set me up for more of a disappointment as I feel the director, writers and Statham himself had the need to out do the first movie. And in an attempt to set the they pushed the bar way too far and out into the next room. As there is a fine line between over-the-top plausible and over-the-top ridiculous and unfortunately this movie falls mainly in the latter category
  • MorpheusOne
    September 21, 2006
    Where does it say "children"?
  • cassie1405
    September 2, 2006
    Ok, I'm a little confused. I saw the movie, and there was only one child. Why does it say children?

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