The Transporter Critic Reviews

The best movie Steven Seagal never made. Except that Statham, while just as marked for death, is harder to kill.Read the full review

A poke in the adrenal gland -- obeys the first law of action movie-making by quickening the heart and dazzling the eye.Read the full review

Too much action brings the movie to a dead standstill. Why don't directors understand that? Why don't they know that wall-to-wall action makes a movie less interesting -- less like drama, more like a repetitive video game?Read the full review

This balls-to-the-walls action/adventure makes the average James Bond film look like something by Eric Rohmer. It’s high rent Steven Segal - fights, explosions, and more fights, but with a flair.Read the full review

The plot doesn't rate as high as the quality of the bodies in fast, furious motion. What counts in The Transporter isn't the wafer-thin story about smugglers -- it's the way Martin kicks open a door, fends off a couple of axes and uses a perfectly ordinary sport shirt as a weapon.Read the full review

Sadly, the last 40-odd minutes are essentially one fight, pushed to the point of absurdity.Read the full review

American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic.Read the full review

If anything, The Transporter isn't ludicrous enough; only one scene (a hand-to-hand showdown in the middle of an oil slick) reaches the inspired, delirious comic heights of the best Hong Kong movies.Read the full review

So second-hand and disposable is it in every respect.Read the full review