Movie review: Transporter 3

If you are a fan of Jason Statham or action movies then I'm sure you are familiar with the Transporter series. In this series Statham plays Frank Martin. He is a man who's job it is to transport whatever you need no questions asked. The staples of the series are fast driving, impossible car stunts and over-the-top fight scenes. Statham is a pretty good martial arts background so he does all of his own stunts.

In this particular movie Frank is forced into transporting a package and a girl across Europe. But the catch here is if he moves more than 75 feet away from the car a bracelet he's wearing will explode. Of course this means that he will always be close to his car and it leads to some pretty interesting scenes where he's forced to stay within that 75 feet. But this wasn't used that much which is a good thing and a bad thing. It's good because it wasn't overdone but it's bad because it wasn't really used to its full potential.

Of course in a movie like this the plot isn't really that important. It's just an excuse for Frank to beat people up and drive his car really fast and crash it into stuff. I won't go into the details of the plot because again they aren't that important.

The main villain is played by Robert Knepper who some of you might know as T-Bag from Prison Break. He does a pretty good job as the villain and thankfully the character isn't a clone of his character from Prison Break.

You can't talk about a movie like this without talking about the action scenes. All in all they were pretty good. But none of them can hold a candle to the oil slick fight scene from the first movie or the flip jump from the second movie. What is good is that he uses the environment as well as his clothes to help him win fights against a small gang of bad guys.

This is just one of those movies that's fun to watch. You don't go into it expecting a great plot or great acting. You go to be entertained for 90 minutes and this movie accomplishes that. So sit back and enjoy and hope that Statham's next project Crank 2: High Voltage lives up to the standards of his previous work in the action genre.

My score: 7.5/10