Excellent but underrated film

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Ed Skrein doesn't hold a candle to Jason Statham in this role, try though he might. The actual plot is not too bad, with I wouldn't say twists and turns, but maybe the odd curved ball, to keep the viewer interested. Many of the stunts are pretty good. Some of the acting, though, is atrocious.

Along with unnecessary sequels, one thing that pisses me off from the stable of Hollywood studios is reboots.Reboots are mostly rubbish and waste of time & money according to me. And after watching this reboot, it makes my case more stronger.The fact that Transporter worked so well was its main lead Jason Statham. Even Transporter two and three were below average movies, Statham was at his best.Sadly, Ed Skerin is no Statham. He lacks his personality and don't start me on his poor dialogue delivery. He may have the looks but his looks can't save this poor movie.The story which is a revenge drama has not teeth and tough the action sequences are good, they lack the edge of the seat thrill.The only decent thing is this boring thing is Ray Stevenson who plays Sr Frank Martin aka transpoter's dad. He has some nice one liners and seems to be the fun guy in a film that takes itself too seriously.Trust me. Miss it !!

Now there are many things wrong with this attempt to bring new life into the Transporter series. Though I never remember it having any problems with Statham in the main role-at least not as huge problems as this one has by trying to create a Transporter universe. Something the Bourne universe did better with Jeremy Renner and still fell flat on their noses/backs/behinds or whatever you want to call it.There is Ray S. who is completely wasted in this (no pun intended), there is misogyny aplenty and just stupid and mean. And there is also so many clichés and ridiculous holes in the "plot" (if you want to call it that), that it almost physically hurts watching. On the other side (the "good" one), you do have certain stunts and action scenes that kind of deliver what the movie promised. But all is let down by really bad acting, dumb "twists" (you really have to be blind and deaf not to see them coming) and an overall dread (PG-13) feeling ... steer clear! Pun intended!

This movie comes in second as one of the dumbest movies I've seen in the last year. The first one is the terrible remake of Point Break. Apparently Ed Skrein was on Game of thrones. I don't remember him on that amazing show so he must have been terrible. Either way he's no Jason Statham and based on his terrible wooden performance in this unnecessary garbage of a remake, he will hopefully remain a nobody.I have nothing nice to say about this crap. Frank Martin was a smart operator and highly intelligent when he was played by Statham. Skreins version acts retarded. Neither him, nor his father, with the same name, (what a dumb idea) ever seem to even care, no matter what happens to them. The movie drags on and on and the actionscenes are lame and seen a 100 times before. How many times do we have to watch the hero being chased by the local police though narrow streets in some European city? How many times do we have to believe that not only do the local police drive crappy little cars, but they're also complete inept drivers who crashes their cars first chance they get. And the father is kidnapped twice, because I guess the writers ran out of ideas. And don't even get me started on the product placement. Pretty much every scene either shows brands of alcohol, cars or smartphones and it's not enough to mention a certain vodka, no it has to be praised too in the scene. It made me really angry. On top of that this movie takes place in 2010. The leads all have iphone 5 or 5s. These models didn't even exist in 2010. That just shows you how retarded this pile of crap really is. It still amazes me when movies like this get greenlighted with as inept actors as Ed Skrein to replace as good an actor as Jason Statham. And yes Statham is a good actor. Watch the movie Hummingbird, if you don't believe me. Avoid this. Even if you're paid to see it. Avoid it. Watch the original three with Statham instead. The third one is terrible but practically a Shakespeare play, compared to this piece of crap.