27 November 2008 1:36 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news
Two films at the opposite end of the entertainment spectrum are joining the heavy competition at the box office over the Thanksgiving weekend, the action thriller Transporter 3 and the biopic drama Milk. The Transporter flick is receiving the kind of reviews critics write when they know most people who will go to see it will not read them. Roger Ebert does not waste elaborate prose to describe it. "The movie is not boring," he writes. Claudia Puig in USA Today remarks that the movie "rides on the good looks and charisma of star Jason Statham" (hardly the kind of recommendation that will inspire a great rush to the theaters where it's playing). Manohla Dargis in the New York Times is similarly charmed. "Mr. Statham never looks better than when he's taking aim at a group of men with his bullet head and a suit that ensure he's dressed to kill," she writes. But Kyle Smith in the New York Times takes on the movie with appropriate verve. "Transporter 3, which has James Bond ambitions on the budget of a Fanta commercial," he writes, "is directed by someone called Olivier Megaton. Of course it is. Do you require more information?"
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