Lack of good storyline.
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... View MoreOne of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
... View MoreThe story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
... View MoreThis style of fast-paced, all-action film, really appeals to both of us, when we want a stress free night in front of the television and we don't want to think too hard about the complexities of a complicated or thought provoking story line.Along with other actors in this genre, Jason Statham has become another firm favourite to deliver the goods in a flamboyant, slightly tongue-in-cheek, no nonsense way, which is highly entertaining and watchable.Not quite as intense, the story line reminded us both very much of the Denzel Washington film 'Man On Fire', although of course, poor 'Creasy' didn't live to fight another day!
... View MoreI didn't enjoy this movie the first time I'd seen it, but maybe that's because I didn't give it my full attention, because upon my second viewing, it was MUCH better than before. In fact, I might go so far as to say this is the best of the series so far. It's definitely better than the third one.Here we have Statham playing Frank, who's now the driver for the child of a wealthy family in Miami, bringing him to and from school on weekdays. Well, he's asked to drive the kid to the doctor's office for a routine check-up, but that doesn't end well. As it turns out, a bio-terrorist-for-hire is after the boy to get to his father, Jefferson, because of his government job, and although Frank gives them one hell of a chase, they manage to take the kid and hold him for ransom. Frank's determined to get him back, and stop the terrorist plot our villain's got in store for Jefferson and the politicians he'll be seeing at the summit.If you thought the first movie was ridiculous, this one beats it for sure. It's got ridiculousness in spades; gravity-defying car flips, more one man army fist fights, and one of the most amusingly creative ways to dispose of a bomb on the bottom of your car--while you're driving it.Seriously, it needs to be seen to be believed.
... View MoreTwo tired themes in this picture: a kidnapping (yawn) and an evil virus (red) and its remedy (blue). The credits list a fights choreographer and a car-scenes choreographer and essentially that's what the film is: their scenes glued together with a little bit of dialogue. Sorry, I don't find Miami, Fl, at all glamorous any more and it's so hard to make a BMW (or even a Maserati) speeding down its streets look exciting that the choreographers have to reach really deep for special effects and super smash-ups. The Asian-style combat scenes are all equally ridiculous because the fighters never have guns or are disarmed within seconds. One scene is pretty inventive with a fire-hose, I must admit. But the scenes with the ridiculously costumed Lola (Kate Nauta) and her skinny bod are grotesque. She never hits Frank (Jason Statham) with her twin super-pistols, although she is dead-eyed with everyone else. Finally she gets pinioned on a spiky thing (no idea what it was), definitely dead. The struggle between Frank and the bad guy on the 'plane at the end was sheer lunacy/fantasy and went too far for me to suspend disbelief, I'm afraid. Not bad, but only for a rainy afternoon.
... View MoreThis Miami based action movie is entertaining from start to finish. It's better than the first Transporter. Liked the clever, funny, original, non gruesome, feel good action sequences. There is action in the water, cars, airplanes, via disease, you name it. No matter how outnumbered he is you know the outcome but it's fun to see how you get there.Jason Statham is back again. Good supporting cast too including Amber Valletta and Matthew Modine as parents of the kidnapped child. It's a bit of an Audi commercial in the first part but that's fine. Don't know why there is use of a tinted lens in a lot of the movie.One of the better Luc Besson movies.
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