![]() ![]() There's only so much the Stath can elevate trashy nonsense like this but he at least would be able to do something with the atrocious dialogue while giving everything else enough of that old Statham charisma to make it at least a bit less forgettable. The story too goes nowhere we haven't seen before and even if it does rattle along at a decent enough pace and the characters are just likable enough to hold the whole thing afloat, it never comes across as anything more than perfunctory.īut, really, the biggest problem comes down to the thoroughly nonsensical decision to make a Jason Statham movie without the man himself. does his best to inject some life into the proceedings – and the action scenes are nothing we haven't seen before: more often than not in films starring Jason Statham. We have the “witty” father/ son interplay that was already done so much better in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – even if Ray Stephenson as Frank Sr. While Ed Skrein spends the entire film doing a not very good Statham impression and Loan Chabanol spends her time looking for all the world like a pretty terrific mix of Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Olivia Munn and Chloe Bennet, everything around them feels like the warmed up leftovers of a thousand better action flicks. It's not quite that The Transporter Refueled is an utterly terrible movie, so much as it's one that has no reason whatsoever to exist. ![]() This reboot of the Transporter franchise finds Frank Martin and his father, Frank Sr., in France and involved in an elaborate revenge scheme by a group of former prostitutes against their former boss, a Russian crime lord.Īfter the Transporter TV series crashed and burned – seriously, did anyone actually watch that show? – we are once again confronted with that crucial question: can there be a Transporter movie without Jason Statham? The answer, as you may well have expected even before seeing Transporter Refueled, is, of course, you can't. ![]()
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