The Transporter Critic Reviews

It's like the worst movie Jean-Claude Van Damme never made.Read the full review

American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic.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

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

That the movie becomes silly isn't necessarily a problem, but it also becomes tiresome, degenerating into a series of martial arts interludes -- everyone unaccountably leaves his guns at home.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

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

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