TRANSPORTER 2
TRANSPORTER 2 is almost sublimely ridiculous. It's pretty much 100% schlock, poorly-directed and with hands-down the worst sense of continuity in any movie I can remember seeing. The plot makes very little sense, and every five minutes or so there is SOMETHING that will make you say "What the hell?"
That's part of what little charm the movie has. As a fan of martial arts movies, and a veteran viewer of some pretty rotten but watchable movies, I enjoyed TRANSPORTER 2 a hell of a lot more than, for example, THE ISLAND. Jason Statham is believable to me as a quiet tough guy who never makes a promise he can't keep.
The laws of physics in this film are more consistently ignored than in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's kinda cool, most of the time it just brought me out of the movie because of how over-the-top it was. I'm all for wild and crazy mind-blowing stunts in an action film, but one of the things that makes action exciting is when it's grounded in a believable physical world.
The first TRANSPORTER was directed by Corey Yuen aka Yuen Kwai, a Hong Kong stuntman-turned-director who went to the same Peking Opera school as Jackie Chan when they were young kids. I like Corey Yuen as a director, because he's made some of my favorite Hong Kong movies, including YES MADAM starring Michelle Yeoh and FONG SAI-YUK starring Jet Li. Corey Yuen does the action choreography in TRANSPORTER 2, so the martial arts is the most entertaining part, and there's always some clever little bits in each fight that are fun to watch. It's ironic that in a movie about a guy who drives really well, the driving is pretty lame.
I wouldn't recommend seeing TRANSPORTER 2 unless you have a serious jones for a martial arts action movie and can stomach a lot of crap in between the fights :)
That's part of what little charm the movie has. As a fan of martial arts movies, and a veteran viewer of some pretty rotten but watchable movies, I enjoyed TRANSPORTER 2 a hell of a lot more than, for example, THE ISLAND. Jason Statham is believable to me as a quiet tough guy who never makes a promise he can't keep.
The laws of physics in this film are more consistently ignored than in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's kinda cool, most of the time it just brought me out of the movie because of how over-the-top it was. I'm all for wild and crazy mind-blowing stunts in an action film, but one of the things that makes action exciting is when it's grounded in a believable physical world.
The first TRANSPORTER was directed by Corey Yuen aka Yuen Kwai, a Hong Kong stuntman-turned-director who went to the same Peking Opera school as Jackie Chan when they were young kids. I like Corey Yuen as a director, because he's made some of my favorite Hong Kong movies, including YES MADAM starring Michelle Yeoh and FONG SAI-YUK starring Jet Li. Corey Yuen does the action choreography in TRANSPORTER 2, so the martial arts is the most entertaining part, and there's always some clever little bits in each fight that are fun to watch. It's ironic that in a movie about a guy who drives really well, the driving is pretty lame.
I wouldn't recommend seeing TRANSPORTER 2 unless you have a serious jones for a martial arts action movie and can stomach a lot of crap in between the fights :)
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