France / United States, 2005Cast: Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valetta, Katie Nauta
Director: Louis Letterier
My Rating: **1/2 / ****
My friends had been commenting on my appearance lately. Well, i've been fucked up lately, that's for sure. I think it's because: 1. I haven't take a bath in like 48 hours, 2. I haven't had a decent sleep for like a week?, 3. I've got this guest who calling himself FATE who keep knocking in my door? (eh, forget this one). Aaaaanyway, one thing for sure is that my mood had been on a greyscale lately. No damn color visible. Everything was either gray or little darker. Gloomy, bleak, it's the color of death. And death, is suck.
But as any situation darker per se, there's absolutely nothing that couldn't be solved by watching some mindless-fuck movie just to let the brain-janitors to clean the aftermath of mind war that had been going on my brain. That's my prescription, by the way, it may not worked on everybody.
So, i prepared several movie that i deemed to be a light-watch, a movie i could enjoy without thinking as much, without even care about the characters or lines of dialog. Transporter 2 was (i think) would be one of the such.
I have told everybody who cared on this site, that Jason Statham is one of those actors that i could enjoy without caring much about his character. Seeing him for the very first time in Snatch, recognize him in Transporter, for me, almost every character that he played had somewhat emanates more than enough charisma to make-up what lacking in almost every aspect of the film he currently in. Remember Mean Machine? he plays as a wicked-mean goalie whose presence provides fear. A real fear. *Shudders*.
Of Transporter 2 case, the film was lacking almost anything. It lacks logic, it lacks characters, it lacks plot, it lacks whatever-you-name-it. Now that's a pretty bad shite. I wouldn't give it a 2.5 rating if i was in my best of shape. But again, i need movie that could made me giggle, not a movie that requires me to think and forced me to watch it again *pointing downward* and so, even though it was that quick to make me respond to the movie with something like, "Oh shite, that's soooo not possible", i could dig the movie. It means to be mindless-fuck-actions and it gave me actions. The movie-makers and director were aware enough that they didn't tried to make a logical action movie that they were concentrated on how to deliver the action. And you know what? they were pretty good at it, i give you that. And Frank, he was this kind of hero / anti-hero protagonist that had a cool fashion that even James Bond looks like a high-schooler. Hell, he even had an extra suit tucked on a waterproof plastic in his car's trunk just in case the suit he wore smeared from blood and/or explosions. If that's doesn't make you smile, i dont know what is. And he doesn't even crack a smile, even though that i was scared a bit when they revealed at the beginning of a movie that instead of a hot-girl (some may not like it, but yeah, i think Hsu Chi is hot. She was the babe in the first Transporter film anyway), Frank was protecting a little-child (i was afraid that it was going to be like Man on Fire stuff, which is though good, but not really the kind of movie that i'm looking for from a mindless action like Transporter). And yeah, Jason Statham delivers.
The action sequences were well taken, given my eye enough delicacy to chew upon, and - the one thing of importance, IMO, for this kind of movie - never stops. The intermission between actions were long enough to spill the bean a little bit on the plot, but never too long to bother itself on explaining the plot. Which is non-existant anyway. One thing to praise upon this film is, that the movie-makers behind this film knows what he's doing. He wants to entertain his viewers. He wants to make a good action-flicks which everybody could enjoy (well, not everybody anyway, since there's this trigger-happy machine-gun girl who wears lingerie everytime she's on screen. That's weird). Long story short, he knows how to made a good action movie. And that was just about what i could say about this film.
This film works best when you're watching it in a cold night, in a dim-lit room, on a wider-screen, with your feet slouching on a couch or somewhere, and with a warm tea or something else you fancy in your hand.