So, when Anna (Loan Chabanol), the leader of a quartet of prostitutes desperate to break free of their servitude, complicates what was meant to be a no-strings-attached deal by having her co-conspirators kidnap Pops, Frank is forced to suspend his apathy yet again.
-photo.jpg "the transporter refueled movie reviews")
(Ray Stevenson), a retired British intelligence operative. Though indifferent toward his passengers, Frank has a soft spot for his dad, Frank Sr. Nowadays it’s Ed Skrein who rumbles at us in a low register under the name Frank Martin. Then as now, the formula was a straightforward one: Take a taciturn, ethically neutral macho man, endow him with mad martial arts skills and unparalleled prowess behind the wheel, then test his resolve to steer clear of his clients’ problems (he serves as a chauffeur of last resort for the shady) by getting him mixed up with - you guessed it - a dame.īack when the millennium was young, this he-man role was filled by Jason Statham.
The latest outing’s trio of predecessors first hit the pavement - and the skids - in 2002. That’s hardly surprising given this sometimes absurd film’s uniformly poor moral and aesthetic pedigree. NEW YORK (CNS) - Like some of the residents of the French Riviera on which it’s set, “The Transporter Refueled” (EuropaCorp) - director Camille Delamarre’s addition to a franchise of excessively violent action flicks - aspires to elegance but comes across instead as tawdry and overbaked.
0 kommentar(er)
