The Movie Diorama
We all have guilty pleasures, not the good kind. The type of guilt that resembles 'The Room', 'Jennifer's Body' and even 'Birdemic: Shock and Terror'! Alright alright, not that bad...but Transporter 2 is just so much fun that I launch myself from the sofa, find a hose and flail it around like I'm Jason flipping Statham. Can't find a hose? I just use a pole instead. Frank Martin, for reasons unbeknown to us, is now the personal driver of a rich family. A sinister man, who already lives the lavish lifestyle, wants money and infects the family with a virus? But he injected the antivirus into himself? Yeah...me neither. The story is basic, simple, dumb, pointless and simply a means to set up the action set pieces. The acting is monotonous, diabolically dull and has as much heart as a kettle...(literally the first thing I could think of). The visual effects, and there are some, are incredibly noticeable and outdated. The script is functional...that's it. It's far too short and moves along at a rushed pace. Yet...somehow, somewhere...in the bottom of my hollow shadowy heart...I love watching this. Every. Damn. Time! The action set pieces are so exaggerative and absurd, that I literally just go with it. An undeniably sexy Kate Nauta in lingerie shooting two silenced sub-machine guns at a doctor's clinic. Statham annihilating henchmen with a hose, filling it up which strangles all those entangled in it. Statham flipping his car towards a crane hook which rips off a bomb with seconds to spare. Statham leaping from a car travelling at 6283681mph onto the wheel of a private jet before it crashes and burns. Statham dramatically getting his face licked by Nauta. Statham driving a car. Statham kicking ass. Statham speaking. Statham, Statham, STATHAM! No one else could pull this off, not even Liam Neeson. I'm taking my personal enjoyment into the rating, I don't even care. Can I watch this again now please?
adonis98-743-186503
Transporter 2 is how a sequel needs to be made more explosions, badass villains and a cool soundtrack especially that Taxi scene with the Cells song from Sin City was out of this world. I think the best villain from the film was the blonde girl although i would love to see more of her and not die in a such stupid way. It has way too much action probably even bigger than the previous film and the best opening scene in a Transporter movie that parking garage scene was out of this world. If you love The Transporter Series and Jason Statham you will not be disappointed it's a straight 10 out of 10 for sure it rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
boris_kolarov
The Transporter was an entertaining action film. I decided to watch the second and the third after seeing the first one. Both were better than the first one and surprisingly I enjoyed the third the most. But here I am writing what I like and dislike about Transporter 2. Let's start with the pros.1)Transporter 2 was better than The Transporter.2)Jason Statham does his role as Frank Martin excellently.3)Statham does show great non-CGI martial arts action.4)The car chases were great.5)Some funny moments.6)Solid plot.7)Likable characters.8)Cool bits of the soundtrack.I disliked a few things about the movie.1)The bad guys were more interesting than in the first film, though they are still weak. Lola started as an interesting villain, but her defeat was disappointing.2)(Minor con) The film used kind of poorly the music from a favourite song of mine by The Servant - Cells.Overall Transporter 2 is more fun and overall better then is predecessor. It is a fun film and deserves a watch.
david-sarkies
The one thing that stands out to me in this movie is that there is a character (one of the baddies) that seems to have a serious allergic reaction to wearing clothes. At first I thought it was weird because it seemed that during a gun fight she would steadily remove items of clothing until such a time that she was only wearing her underwear, however it became clear that unless she was disguising herself as something, she simply walked around in her underwear, with her gun holsters strapped to her. Needless to say I actually found this character to be incredibly annoying and off putting – and it wasn't as if she was even attractive.Anyway, Stratham has come to Miami to help out of friend, and for some reason this French police officer has decided to come over as well (though I didn't actually think they were friends, just a couple of guys that seemed to always run into each other), however he spends his entire holiday stuck in a police station, because at first he is a arrested, and when they discover that he is a police officer (and innocent) they still don't let him go – nice vacation in Miami.As for Stratham, this time he is transporting a kid, but the kids gets kidnapped, but then halfway through the movie they release him, but the movie hasn't ended yet, because the movie is only halfway finished, which means that something else must happen. It does, Stratham drives a Mazarrati around Miami (or some other sports car) chasing a helicopter (and catches up with it), and then fights the bad guy on the plane (after dealing with Miss Underwear), and the crashes the plane into the ocean – and then the movie ends.Why, oh why, did I end up spending money on this trilogy. I am seriously not going to ever see that money again.