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Bookmark this pageTransporter 3 (2008)
Director: Olivier Megaton
Movie review
From Time Out London
Sporting ‘action man’ square-jawed looks, a perfect five-o’clock shadow, an impressive six-pack and the obligatory gravel voice, Jason ‘The Stath’ Statham is a more likeable action hero than the majority of Hollywood’s musclebound mob.Co-writer-producer Luc Besson’s Gallic, low-budget, English-language, speed-caper franchise continues apace with Statham reprising his role as the world’s most in-demand driver. In this episode he’s forced – by way of a bracelet that’s programmed to blow if he moves beyond 70 feet of his flash Audi S8 – into a kidnap venture involving the saucy daughter of a top Ukrainian environment minister. Can he deliver his ‘package’ without a hitch and still find time to beat the living daylights out of Robert Knepper’s violent perpetrator?
Olivier Megaton’s actioner provides a fair few laughs, some exquisitely choreographed hand-to-hand combat sequences and at least three OTT car chases. The flashy editing gets on one’s wick and no one’s going to win an Oscar – but, really, who’s complaining? This is straight-up fisticuff fun.
Author: Derek Adams
Time Out London Issue 1998, Dec 4 - 10, 2008
User reviews of this film
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- Shahid Munir said...
- Posted on Jan 10 2009 10:58 You can see this film really got to me. Is it me or are the Time out reviews out of touch.. I should have read the users reviews on this one as they were completely right. I still have dreams of how bad it was. I can't believe there was 2 previous ones which I had never seen and one user commented that this was better, how can that be possible. I would have given it no stars if I could.
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- Shahid Munir said...
- Posted on Jan 10 2009 10:36 The worst film ever, no story line and completely unrealistic. Come on he fights by using his shirt.
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- Shahid Munir said...
- Posted on Jan 10 2009 10:33 THE worst one I have ever seen. No story line and completely un realistic and no sory line.. Come he fights by using his shirt.
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- Justin Berkovi said...
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Posted on Jan 04 2009 20:22
Statham makes me proud to be British. He, unlike so many 'products' of the UK, does a great job, takes his work seriously and I feel always does his best to entertain.
Here he reprises his role as the 'transporter' well and whilst nothing groundbreaking it's an entertaining film and I enjoyed it! - Report as inappropriate
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- Gary S said...
- Posted on Dec 31 2008 09:28 Those who rate this film badly obviously do not see the film for what it really is, good old flash kick ass stuff
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- Howard Smith said...
- Posted on Dec 26 2008 17:52 Does what it says on the tin. Some strange European touches at times, like the lead actresses accent, and was it just my cinema or was the sound quiet sometimes? Statham is dependable and always seems to do this type of role well. Plot wise it is business as usual and it seemed to have a lot in common with Crank, the other staham vehicle. Action was well done and I liked the casting of the French police chief who occasionally helps Jason throughout the film. Not a wasted evening.
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- anonymous said...
- Posted on Dec 26 2008 16:22 Crappy fighting scenes, fat & cheap directors deserve killing
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- Matty C said...
- Posted on Dec 26 2008 16:20 Awful film, fell asleep
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- Oliver D said...
- Posted on Dec 26 2008 16:19 I aggree, shitty film
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- Lawrence Donnelly said...
- Posted on Dec 26 2008 16:18 This film could have been made a hell of a lot better but i give this one star because it wouldnt let me give a worse score. The whole film is shot inside a car with no other dilemma
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- Gavbo said...
- Posted on Dec 26 2008 12:40 This is possibly the worst film I have ever seen - I had to be held back by my wife from walking out, it was really that bad. I have rated it one star simply because it is the minimum. I thought Transporter was great and Transporter 2 was not far behind, but this film is terrible.
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- shully said...
- Posted on Dec 21 2008 19:35 A fun and entertaining film but did anyone else think that he should have thrown the girl out of the car, driven away at high speed and laughed as she exploded all over the highway
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- umal said...
- Posted on Dec 18 2008 14:22 jason is drop it like its HOT!!
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- rusheya said...
- Posted on Dec 13 2008 17:21 how much dose it cost for transporster 3
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- phil mk said...
- Posted on Dec 12 2008 20:17 Routine thriller, with a greenwash tinge. The bad guys are naughty polluting industrialists, yawn. Some nice exciting car chases. It's not worth four stars, though.
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Cast & crew
Director: Olivier Megaton
Cast: Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, François Berléand, Robert Knepper, Jeroen Krabbé, Eriq Ebouaney full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 104 mins
UK Release: Dec 5 2008
US Release: Nov 26 2008
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