Frank can seemingly dodge bullets, and a group of bad guys all run out of ammo at exactly the same moment when it’s time for Frank’s one-on-12 hand-to-hand combat scene. Cars launch into the air for no particular reason, fly incredible distances and land either with perfect precision (Frank’s car) or crash into other cars (anyone chasing him). Even then, most of the car chases and martial arts scenes are confusing and redundant. That’s the only level at which the unbelievable action, spotty acting and terrible dialogue can possibly work.
Transporter 2 movie#
The film is best viewed as a comic book movie or a cartoon. With my expectations duly lowered, Transporter 2 turns out to be just as ridiculous, but much less amusingly so. After an impressive opening action sequence, the story and the fight scenes and dialogue contained in it just got sillier and sillier until a friend and I were actually giggling in the theater during the climactic confrontation.
That’s how I remember the first in this series. Some movies are unintentionally hilarious. (Note to would-be villains: Best to avoid pointy things in your interior design scheme.) One villain apparently dies on a wall of decorative spikes, though we don’t really see how. Stock henchmen are acrobatically rendered unconscious by Frank’s flying feet and whatever he can find lying about. In close combat, men are stabbed with glass, a ladder and a needle. Having said that, gun shots, car crashes and blows to the head (and other body parts) are near-constant. Usually, the camera avoids showing us the results of deadly gunshots and often pauses to let us notice when someone has survived a car crash or blow to the head. Thankfully, while barraging moviegoers with often unbelievable and cartoony action, the filmmakers show some restraint by limiting the blood and body count. Aside from brief pauses for plot developments, it’s basically a string of quick-cut car chases, shoot-outs and kung fu confrontations. Transporter 2 is all about action violence. Now he must find a way to stop them from spreading a deadly virus and get his hands on the antidote before it kills thousands.
With the police hot on his trail as a suspect in the kidnapping and the baddies trying to gun him down, Frank’s frantic investigation reveals that the sleazy killers are up to something far deadlier than kidnapping. So when a group of kidnappers succeeds in nabbing the boy in spite of Frank’s considerable efforts to stop them, he swears to Jack’s mom that he’ll keep his promise not to let them hurt the tyke. Although he’s quick to point out it’s not the kind of driving he normally does, he finds himself bonding with young Jack Billings. Now living in Miami, Frank finds himself chauffeuring the 6-year-old son of a wealthy and powerful businessman. However, as revealed in the first Transporter movie, if the job risks innocent lives, his conscience compels him to protect them first. He’ll deliver anything anywhere, no questions asked. The highly trained ex-Special Forces officer offers his driving skills (and his black, tricked-out Audi A8) to anyone who can afford him. Frank Martin tries to live by a strict set of rules.
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