The Transporter (2002)
Critic Reviews
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88
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The best movie Steven Seagal never made. Except that Statham, while just as marked for death, is harder to kill.
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75
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
A thoroughly satisfying mix of mayhem and mindless fun.
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70
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Salon Andrew O'Hehir
There's plenty to like here, especially for connoisseurs of the action genre, and there's also plenty to make you wonder whether Besson and co-writer Robert Mark Kamen scribbled their screenplay on a batch of Marseilles cocktail napkins and then lost one or two.
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63
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Ray Conlogue
This is a film where there isn't the slightest doubt about the dramatic outcome. But the marketing will be a cliffhanger.
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60
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
The plot doesn't rate as high as the quality of the bodies in fast, furious motion. What counts in The Transporter isn't the wafer-thin story about smugglers -- it's the way Martin kicks open a door, fends off a couple of axes and uses a perfectly ordinary sport shirt as a weapon.
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50
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Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
A slick, sexy little package with fast cars, big explosions, dazzling locations in the south of France, a trip-hop score, and about as much plot to fill a thimble.
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40
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The A.V. Club Scott Tobias
If anything, The Transporter isn't ludicrous enough; only one scene (a hand-to-hand showdown in the middle of an oil slick) reaches the inspired, delirious comic heights of the best Hong Kong movies.
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40
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Variety Todd McCarthy
So second-hand and disposable is it in every respect.
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20
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TV Guide Magazine Steve Simels
It takes perverse genius to make an action film this stupid.
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0
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
That the movie becomes silly isn't necessarily a problem, but it also becomes tiresome, degenerating into a series of martial arts interludes -- everyone unaccountably leaves his guns at home.
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