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'The Transporter: Refueled': EW review

In every film that involves Luc Besson, the French action mastermind behind Leon: The Professional and the Taken series, there is at least one jaw-dropping action set piece that always justifies the existence of the whole movie, even if the rest of the runtime is sub-par. Even in critically derided fare like 3 Days to Kill and Lockout, Besson’s name tends to justify the price of popcorn.

In The Transporter Refueled , the key scene involves a high speed chase on an airport runway and a series of stunning jumps an Audi is probably not designed to make. So with the bare minimum Besson-ness delivered, how will the other 86 minutes of this, the fourth in the Transporter series and the first to star Ed Skrein in the title role, fare?

Results are mixed. The bananas plot, such as it is, involves a quartet of prostitutes getting revenge on Russian crime boss Yuri (Yuri Kolokonikov), who has kept them under his thumb for 15 years. They draft professional transporter Frank Martin (Skrein) into helping them execute a series of increasingly complicated heists that chip away at Yuri’s deeply-insulated empire bit by bit. They are joined by Frank’s oft-kidnapped father (Ray Stevenson), a just-retired international man of mystery. The story becomes a mess pretty quickly, and all it really does is distract from the escalating fistfights and gun battles that lead to the final standoff with Yuri.

Jason Statham had carried the previous three Transporter films, and his volcanic machismo and super-cool action charisma helped add some heft to what amounted to a bunch of car chases strung together. Skrein doesn’t have Statham’s devil-may-care attitude, instead choosing to give Frank a quiet determination that is not terrible but also not all that interesting. For a character whose name is in the title, he often fades into the backgrounds of scenes (particularly when that background is the gorgeous French Riviera, where most of the film takes place). Skrein, a former Game of Thrones player, still has the potential to be a compelling movie star, but Refueled will not be much of a calling card for him.

That shortcoming is enough to ultimately stall Refueled , as there’s nobody at the center to hold all the disparate action beats and stray plot strands together with a look. (Along with Statham, regular Besson player Liam Neeson is a master at this). Any time there’s any talking—and for a supposed high-octane affair, there are a lot of scenes where characters just stop to chat about the horrors of prostitution—is something of a disaster, mostly because the script itself is relatively wooden but also because a lot of the actors seem to be trying to catch up to their own lines. Director Camille Delamarre is pretty good with tossing cars around (there’s a particularly inventive escape early in the movie involving a series of fire hydrants), but the dialogue scenes feel interminable.

Still, it’s hard to deny the hedonistic joy in the way Delamarre plays with his various toys, and the goofball stunts—including the yacht-based finale, with a special appearance by a jet ski—are generally worth wandering through the dialogue desert. It’s certainly a comedown after a season of top-shelf action titles, but the summer can’t last forever. B–

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Now that the 2015 summer movie derby is coming to an end this weekend, Jason Statham can be named one of its biggest winners. He entered the season riding high on the mammoth success of " Furious 7 ," the latest installment of the shockingly durable franchise in which he played the main bad guy. Later on, he appeared in the hit comedy " Spy " and scored many of its biggest laughs by deftly sending up his tough guy screen persona to hilarious effect. Now, with the arrival of "The Transporter Refueled," the latest installment of the action film series from one-man production slate Luc Besson , he seems likely to receive some of the best reviews of his entire career. Of course, he isn't actually in the film at all—the rumor is that he turned it down after being offered a lower salary than his previous go-arounds and no opportunity to read the script beforehand—but once people get a load of this listless retread, they will no doubt fall all over themselves in praising both the earlier ones and his significant contributions to them as a way of underscoring just how useless this one really is.

A brief recap for those of you who some how missed the previous entries and are worried about getting confused. They follow the adventures of Frank Martin, an ex-Special Forces soldier who now resides in the south of France and makes a ridiculously lucrative living as a top-notch getaway driver who is, naturally, the best at his job and, naturally, lives by a certain set of rules that he is always ready to pontificate about at the drop of a hat. (There are fewer rules regarding the care and feeding of the common Mogwai, but never mind.) Since most of his jobs seem to end up with him in the middle of high-speed and high-profile car chases resulting in millions of euros in property damage, one might argue that he is more lucky than skilled but that is a debate for another time.

As our story opens, Frank (now played by Ed Skrein ) is about to spend some time with his recently retired father ( Ray Stevenson ) when he is hired by the super-sexy Anna ( Loan Chabanol ) to pick her and a couple of packages up outside of a bank. The "packages" turn out to be her equally glam cohorts Gina (Gabriella Wright) and Qiao (Wenxia Yu) and they have just robbed a Russian gangster of millions of dollars. It turns out that the three, along with additional babe Maria (Tatiana Pajkovic), are prostitutes who have decided to break free of Karasov (Radivoje Bukvic), the crime kingpin who has enslaved them since they were children, by stealing the ill-gotten gains of him and his associates through various elaborate means. To do this, they need Frank's help and to ensure his compliance, they take his old man hostage. One could argue that there are worse things that one could do than be taken hostage by a group of high-priced call girls in the south of France but as I would rather not get scolded over at Jezebel, let us table that discussion.

To be honest, this storyline is not noticeably stupider in theory than any of the other "Transporter" films—the characters are as black-and-white as can be, the narrative is little more than a laundry line to connect the action beats and the entire enterprise is noticeably less complicated than the underwear worn by the distaff members of the cast. Actually, I kind of liked those earlier installments, as I enjoy much of Luc Besson's oeuvre, because as cinematic eye candy went, they were of the gourmet variety—the action sequences moved with a combination of grace and giddiness that meshed well with Besson's fondness for salting the carnage with goofball humor. Besson may still have an interest in the franchise—he produced and co-wrote the screenplay—but his connection to the material seems tenuous at best. The story is as dopey as ever but this  installment is mostly bereft of the silly quirks that leavened the others—the story is so boilerplate that one could cook ramen noodles on the screenplay, the dialogue is absolutely terrible (if I started quoting it here, I would never stop) and with one exception  involving our heroes making their escape through an airport terminal, director Camille Delamarre presents all the chases and fights in the kind of overly edited fashion that never allows anyone to get a good look at what is happening for more than a few seconds.

The secret weapon of the previous "Transporter" films, though not always credited as such, was Jason Statham, who turned out to be the ideal center for the chaos surrounding him by giving his tough guy character just the right hint of dry wit to suggest that he knew just how cuckoo the whole enterprise really was. Just as important, his undeniable physical presence lent an extra edge to the fight scenes—here was the rare action star who looked as if he actually could do many of the moves his character was asked to make. I suspect that even he could not have made much of anything out of this film but he almost certainly would have done more with it than Skrein, the man who would be Frank. No matter what he is asked to do—throw punches, race through the streets, trade lines of dialogue—he is never convincing for a second and feels less like an action hero than a placeholder for one who is forthcoming. 

"The Transporter Refueled" is an unnecessary bore from start to finish, one that even the most devoted Luc Besson fanatics (and as someone who named " Lucy " as one of the 10 best films of 2014, I admit to falling into that category) will find difficult to defend. However, there is one part of it that I will cherish and that is the scene in which one of the hookers—it hardly matters which one—is shot during one of the escapades and is taken back to the abandoned warehouse with a bullet still lodged inside her. Since they cannot go to the hospital, Frank and his father save her with the use of such oddball elements as sugar, vodka, perfume, tweezers and cobwebs. I have no idea if any of this actually checks out but the next time there is a shootout during a Halloween-themed "Vogue" fashion shoot, it could prove to be a lifesaver. Beyond that, this is a retread of the dullest order—the marquee may say "Transporter" but viewers are likely to come away from it feeling " Taken " instead.

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The Transporter Refueled: All Filming Locations of the Netflix Movie

With Camille Delamarre at the helm, Netflix’s ‘The Transporter Refueled’ is an action thriller movie that serves as a reboot and fourth installment in the ‘Transporter’ film series. It stars Ed Skrein as Frank Martin, a former special forces operative-turned-mercenary who works as a transporter of classified packages and people for some questionable clients. His less perilous lifestyle gets turned upside down when femme fatale Anna and her three accomplices orchestrate a bank heist and kidnap Frank’s father.

Upon entering into a game of chess with Anna and her team, Frank must use his covert skills to survive and thrive in her dangerous game. The fast-paced action movie unfolds in the south of France, as Frank indulges in various car chases against some interesting backdrops. Thus, if you are interested in knowing where ‘The Transporter Refueled’ was filmed, allow us to fill you in on all the necessary details about the same!

The Transporter Refueled Filming Locations

‘The Transporter Refueled’ was filmed primarily in France, especially in Alpes-Maritimes and Île-de-France. As per reports, production on the action film got underway in early August 2014 and wrapped up in over a month or so, in September of the same year. So, let’s not waste any time and dive right into the thick of the action to get a detailed account of all the specific locations that feature in the Ed Skrein starrer!

Alpes-Maritimes, France

Many important portions of ‘The Transporter Refueled’ were lensed across Alpes-Maritimes, a department of France situated in the nation’s southeast corner. One of the opening sequences for the film was taped around Rue Lépante in the commune of Menton. The cast and crew utilized a couple of locales of the same commune to record a number of street scenes, including Promenade du Soleil and Quai de Monleon.

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The production team of ‘The Transporter Refueled’ also set up camp in the vibrant city of Nice for a while during the shooting schedule. For instance, Jardins du Musée Masséna at 35 Promenade des Anglais doubled as the British Consulate in the movie while Le Palais de Justice on Place du Palais de Justice stood in for the Banque de Investissement de Monaco. Furthermore, Quai Rauba Capeu and Rue des Ponchettes were turned into film sets as the director and his team shot various street scenes on location. In the meanwhile, Garage Galliéni at 38 Avenue Gallieni also served as one of the prominent filming sites.

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The filming unit also traveled to other areas in the department of Alpes-Maritimes, such as Cannes and Monaco. Additional street scenes for ‘The Transporter Refueled’ were also filmed on location around Tunnel de La Condamine in the commune of Cantaron and Avenue Robert Schumann in the commune of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.

Île-de-France, France

For the purpose of filming, Ed Skrein and the rest of the crew even headed to Île-de-France, which is centered on the capital Paris and often known as the Paris Region. While Paris served as one of the prominent shooting sites for ‘The Transporter Refueled,’ several key portions were also taped in Studios de Paris or Cité du Cinéma at 20 rue Ampère in Saint-Denis. Inaugurated in September 2012, the film studio complex is considered the largest in the Paris Region as apart from its multiple stages, it also consists of parking spaces, an auditorium, and various other amenities, making it a suitable filming site for different kinds of productions.

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The Transporter: Refueled Is Stupid-Fun, But You’ll Miss Jason Statham

The Transporter: Refueled  is stupid, stupid, stupid — and it certainly knows it. You might even chuckle contentedly at its knowing silliness — that’s sort of what this low-rent franchise is here for — but you’ll also miss Jason Statham, whose deadpan self-awareness somehow legitimized the ridiculousness of the previous films. Statham, as some may already know, departed the series over a contract dispute; they wanted to make more movies and pay him less, so he (rightly) bailed. Maybe the faint vestige of his spirit is all that’s needed: The new film gets by to some extent on the good will carried over from the earlier films, and most of that good will was due to the now-absent star.

This time out, mysterious transporter Frank Taylor — he drives secret, high-value merchandise from place to place in his slick Audi, no questions asked — is played by the younger British actor Ed Skrein, who has Statham’s raspy voice but little of his stone-faced presence; he’s a pretty boy, not a bruiser. The story concerns Frank being hired by Anna (Loan Chabanol), a beautiful ex-prostitute who heads a quartet of beautiful prostitutes exacting elaborate, bloody revenge on the men who’ve been exploiting them for years. Anna wants Frank to be a getaway driver, which is not what he does; so to compel him, she kidnaps his father (Ray Stevenson), who has just retired from a job in British intelligence. (Dad’s a loyal, effective spy who taught Frank, a.k.a. Junior, all he knows — but he still somehow manages to get his ass kidnapped twice in this movie.) Soon enough, though, Franks Sr. and Jr. are both in cahoots (and in bed) with Anna and her gang.

Anyway, there’s a scene where Frank (who never carries a gun) beats the shit out of a bunch of guys with a shopping bag. And a scene where he drives his car through a jet bridge and into a passenger terminal at an airport. And an obligatory club scene, where our heroines gyrate on the dance floor and then rob some dirtbag pimps while Frank kicks the shit out of a bunch of goons with, first, a power cable, then a set of wooden drawers, and finally a couple of lead pipes. (And if you thought Jurassic World had a women-running-in-heels problem, wait till you get a load of this one.) There’s also a scene where Frank steps out of his moving car and then kicks the shit out of a bunch of other goons (or maybe they’re the same ones, I honestly couldn’t tell) while the car continues to roll. Oh, oh, and then there’s a scene where he flies a Jet Ski onto the sand and then leaps off it and in through the window of another moving vehicle. And a banking website that will not only transfer millions instantaneously but will also conveniently tell you when someone else has just logged onto your account and where exactly on your evil yacht they’re hiding. As usual, the film somehow disarms you with its obvious, in-your-face stupidity — it makes Furious 7 look like The Hurt Locker . But without the unifying, stone-faced mask of Statham, who somehow managed to combine total commitment with a certain above-it-all charm, it doesn’t really hold together. It feels like a test run for a better Jason Statham movie.

But now, a confession: When the first Transporter movie opened in 2002, I didn’t care for it. The cartoonish (and fake) car high jinks, the idiotic plot, Jason Statham’s glower, the weird combination of sleazy action and postcard-perfect settings — none of it worked for me initially. ( Who dumbs down a Bond movie?  I kept asking myself. Aren’t they dumb enough? ) But the films stuck around, and stuck with me. Something about the film’s casual, Eurotrash silliness, its willingness to throw Proust references in the middle of a harebrained action movie, its very artificiality, started to grow on me; there was nothing else out there quite like it. So much so that I found myself looking forward to the sequels. I’m not sure I’d still call them good movies. But they’re effective , modest little brain-cleansers in a world where both fun movies and serious movies sometimes take themselves way too seriously. So, it’s entirely possible that this latest Transporter film will one day grow on me, too — that Skrein will somehow make the role his, that the lunacy will feel less calculating and more liberating. But until that day, The Transporter: Refueled will feel like a game, if ultimately futile, attempt to carry on a series whose greatest asset has departed.

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The transporter refueled review, despite a lot of shortcomings and undercooked elements, the transporter refueled is a mildly entertaining action film..

Smooth-talking and sharp-dressed Frank Martin (Ed Skrein) is the man to call when you need no-questions-asked transportation. Frank serves an elite clientele - wealthy men and women looking for a quick and discrete getaway - and the Transporter requires that he and his customers adhere to a strict set of rules: The deal is the deal; No names; Never open the package; Never make a promise you can't keep; Buckle up. For years, Frank has built a strong word-of-mouth-following, and a small fortune, servicing clients in the south of France - all while managing to avoid lingering complications.

However, when Frank's father, Frank Senior (Ray Stevenson) retires from life as an global sales representative for Evian water, a group of well-organized criminals use the elder Martin to draw the Transporter into a dangerous high-stakes battle with powerful Russian crime lord, Arkady Karasov (Radivoje Bukvic). After fifteen years of abuse and exploitation, Karasov has made dangerous enemies - enemies that, with Frank's help, are enacting swift and ruthless revenge.

Based on Louis Leterrier and Corey Yuen's 2002 cult-hit starring Jason Statham as the titular Transporter, The Transporter Refueled takes the core concept of a highly-skilled getaway driver caught between a personal code of honor and the (often) underhanded requirements of his job - but places a new actor in the driver's seat. In addition to swapping Skrein in for Statham, Refueled  is also banking on hope that sophomore filmmaker Camille Delamarre ( Brick Mansions ) can bring fresh energy to the latest big screen installment - after the Transporter franchise premise was already explored (and stretched thin) in two follow-up films and a full TV series.

A frequent Luc Besson collaborator, Delamarre is no stranger to the Transporter  series: previously the director served as an editor on  Transporter 3 and years later, provided second-unit directorial work on the aforementioned  Transporter: The Series . Unfortunately, whereas Delamarre succeeds with some stylish action set pieces and fun character moments in his  Transporter reboot, half-baked villains, cheesy dialogue (with noticeably bad ADR), and overall clumsy execution land Refueled in an underwhelming middle ground: it's a fun enough, albeit brainless, ride that could have been significantly better and falls far short of the original  Transporter in every single way imaginable.

In spite of paper-thin villains that are outlined by shameless cliches, the full Refueled narrative is imbued with a few smart twists (even if most viewers will put all the pieces together ahead of time) and a fun dynamic between the film's three leads: Frank Junior, Frank Senior, and the mysterious Anna (Loan Chabanol). Skrein is no substitute for Statham but the younger actor owns his role, presenting his Frank as both a capable brawler and car driver, as well as a vulnerable and principled hero. Ironically, if Refueled had been its own thing, separate from an established franchise and fan-favorite actor, Skrein's character would have made a bigger impact, with more room to differentiate his suit-wearing getaway driver from the cavalcade of similar action heroes within the genre. As he is, Skrein is an adequate substitute who, aside from a few moments that make Frank his own, rarely gets to step out of Statham's shadow.

Fortunately, Skrein's interactions with supporting characters Anna and Frank Senior offer new layers to the titular hero - making the one-man-wrecking-crew slightly more human. While viewers will quickly realize there's more to Frank Senior than meets the eye, charming banter and understated drama between the father and son are two of the best features of Refueled - even if Delamarre makes heavy-handed use of Stevenson within the machinations of the plot.

Conversely, Anna's relationship with Frank is framed around many rote developments in any standard hero/damsel tale. Yet, outside of her attraction to Frank, Anna is a sharp and capable heroine on her own - one that successfully keeps the Transporter on his toes. Anna has all the necessary ingredients to be a noteworthy femme fatale but, sadly, Delamarre's clumsy execution of the Refueled story (and its themes) ultimately squanders much of that potential.

The same can be said for Refueled 's villains - one of the most generic and uninspired set of rogues to ever hit movie screens. After a painful introduction set in 1995 (where each actor is de-aged with a cheap wig and facial hair), Delamarre fast-forwards to present day - when the small time criminals have become nondescript mob bosses (complete with their own night clubs, private planes, and luxury yachts). Bukvic's Arkady Karasov gets the most screen time, joined by his prostitute-turned lover, henchwoman, and arm candy Maissa (Noémie Lenoir), but the character's backstory and connection to Frank are both convoluted, leaving nothing but a smarmy Eastern European stereotype as the antagonist to the Transporter. Worst of all, throughout the film, Karasov never takes inventive initiative and is just a passenger to his own misfortune: one who's always one step behind Frank and Anna at every turn, undermining any sense of menace he could have commanded. The best he can offer, as far as obstacles go, is a generic army of meathead thugs for Frank to punch through.

The Transporter Refueled is playing in standard and IMAX theaters - and there's no reason to pay for a premium ticket. Aside from increased audio fidelity - which makes the high-revving car chases slightly more immersive - Delamarre's film does not make use of IMAX screen real estate. The filmmaker includes plenty of engaging, and hyper-stylized getaway sequences (complete with cool slow-motion shots), and one especially entertaining fist fight; that alone should be enough to please action junkies looking for high-octane (though over-the-top) automotive pandemonium.

Still, even the best sequences only riff on ideas that have been executed better (on a bigger scale) before - and lose further car-movie credibility after brief, and downright choppy, shots have been cobbled together through a heavy-handed editing process.

Despite a lot of shortcomings and undercooked elements,  The Transporter Refueled  is a mildly entertaining action film that, sadly, is made worst by EuropaCorp's attempts to shoe-horn Skrein and a relatively competent action-thriller storyline into  The Transporter  franchise. Following three films and a TV series, the  Transporter  frame actually holds Skrein, Delamarre, and the  Refueled  reboot back from doing something unique - a film that, with a little less desperation and a little more invention, could have developed its  own  cult-following. After all, The  Transporter  series got its start by iterating on prior getaway driver movies - rather than relying on a familiar label to sell it.

Viewers who enjoyed the action in prior Transporter movies, and don't mind seeing a different actor behind the wheel, should find enough slick action to sate their appetite for vehicular thrills. Nonetheless, when all is said and done,  Refueled  amounts to little more than a (more often than not) subpar, and arguably unnecessary, franchise cash grab.

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The Transporter Refueled  runs 96 minutes and is Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, sexual material, some language, a drug reference and thematic elements. Now playing in 2D and IMAX theaters.

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What’s the movie about? Frank Martin (Ed Skrein) is known as a “transporter” in the underworld – the best driver money can buy. If the price is right, Frank will take anything to its destination. Anna (Loan Chabanol), the leader of a mercenary force, takes Frank’s father hostage so that he will work with her to take out a gang of Russian human traffickers.

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‘The Transporter: Refueled’ stays on cruise control

Posted on Published: September 4, 2015  - Last updated: September 5, 2015

The Transporter: Refueled Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage & Luc Besson Directed by Camille Delamarre France/China, 2015

The transporter is cool — the character Frank Martin (Ed Skrein) that is, although the film also has its moments. Frank’s dad, Frank Senior (Ray Stevenson) is so cool. The super team of vengeance-seeking former prostitutes are cool too, as are some (but not all) of the film’s villains. Everyone in this film is just so damn cool. There is nothing wrong with cool. Just the right amount of cool can make a good film feel like a great film. However, when cool is not properly rationed out, it becomes a blunt force instrument, which smashes away a movie’s emotional range resulting in flat characters and a one-dimensional tone.

Frank Martin is a former mercenary who now transports packages for those willing to pay his fees and follows his three simple rules. If any client attempts to renegotiate the terms of a deal, Frank walks. It all sounds simple enough and yet, as is always the case in a Transporter film, one of Frank’s transporting jobs doesn’t go according to plan. A well-coordinated team of high-class call girls kidnap the charming and mysterious Frank Senior in order to coerce Frank into stepping away from his rules and aiding them in their intricate revenge scheme. With his father’s life on the line, Frank joins forces with the kidnappers as they seek to liberate themselves from a local crime lord.

The villains in The Transporter: Refeuled are run of the mill, trashy European archetypes that wouldn’t be out of place in the Taken  trilogy . The film’s thugs, minions, and low level generals do dirt bag things like wear heaps of gold, unbutton their shirts down to their navels, and listen to way too much EDM — they also have a boss who spends his days scheming on a yacht. The Transporter: Refueled’s bad guys are just asking for swift chops to the throat, and oh man is there plenty of throat chopping.

The Transporter films know their lane and they stick to it — they live and die by their action set pieces and fight choreography. This film’s worst action scenes still manage to be competent while the more inventive sequences are a joy to watch. One stand out moment involves Frank battling in a narrow corridor lined with filing cabinets on both sides. Frank turns the cabinets into projectiles, violently whipping them into his opponent’s faces. The action is equal parts brutal and hilarious and could have easily been ripped out of a Jackie Chan flick.

The Transporter franchise looks to have taken a page from The Furious movie’s style guide and doubled down on the use of hyper-stylized stunt work that extends into cartoonishness . This film doesn’t have the budget to keep up with the sheer Hollywood bombast on display in The Furious movies but still manages to hold its own. The biggest drawback to the film’s crazy set pieces is that they feel low stakes. The Transporter: Refueled tends to telegraph the craziest bits of stunt driving and the moments don’t build up a sense of tension because everyone is aware that professional cool cat Frank Martin’s Audi always lands on all fours. The same lack of drama applies to the stunts in The Furious films — we all know that Vin Diesel and The Rock are sure to walk away from every wreck — but those films compensate for predictability by  delivering superb set-pieces that utilize every last cent of their insane budgets.

Late in the film, there is a moment where the camera lingers on Frank as he buries his battered fists into a bucket of ice-water. Up until that point, Frank brushes off car crashes, dodges bullets and shakes off beatings with the nonchalance of an Avenger breaking up a slap fight. Watching Frank bow his head and slump his shoulders while doing what little he can to reduce his bodies’ wear and tear is the only time he comes off as a relatable human being. For the majority of the film, Skrein plays Frank  as a physical and emotional Terminator and the movie suffers for it. Showing the audience sides of Frank that are flawed and vulnerable would go a long way in fleshing out the character and breaking up the the film’s second and third act monotony.

The Transporter: Refueled is exactly the type of flawed but fun late summer action movie that pops up like clockwork each year around early September. The action is solid but the majority of the cast lacks charisma. The film explodes out of the gates with an exhilarating first 20-minutes which is counterbalanced by a generic third act (capped off by a cliché climax). The Transporter: Refueled is an inoffensive entry into The Transporter movie universe that should entertain old school Transporter fans while also serving as an ideal entry point into the franchise for a new audience.

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The Transporter Refueled

2015, Action/Mystery & thriller, 1h 31m

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The Transporter Refueled has little to offer beyond a handful of decent action sequences, leaving this reboot's title feeling more like wishful thinking than a restatement of purpose. Read critic reviews

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Frank Martin is living a less perilous lifestyle, or so he thinks, transporting classified packages for questionable people. Things get complicated when femme fatale Anna and her three accomplices orchestrate a bank heist and the kidnapping of Frank's father. It's all part of a grand plan to take down the human trafficker who victimized her years earlier. Now a pawn in her vengeful scheme, the former special-operations mercenary must use his covert skills to play Anna's dangerous game.

Rating: PG-13 (A Drug Reference|Action|Thematic Elements|Sequences of Violence|Sexual Material|Some Language)

Genre: Action, Mystery & thriller

Original Language: English

Director: Camille Delamarre

Producer: Luc Besson , Mark Gao

Writer: Adam Cooper , Bill Collage , Luc Besson

Release Date (Theaters): Sep 4, 2015  wide

Release Date (Streaming): Dec 8, 2015

Box Office (Gross USA): $16.0M

Runtime: 1h 31m

Distributor: EuropaCorp

Production Co: EuropaCorp

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Frank Martin

Ray Stevenson

Frank Martin Sr.

Loan Chabanol

Gabriella Wright

Tatiana Pajkovic

Radivoje Bukvic

Lenn Kudrjawizki

Anatole Taubman

Stanislav Turgin

Noemie Lenoir

Camille Delamarre

Adam Cooper

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Bill Collage

Christophe Collette

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Alexandre Azaria

Original Music

Hugues Tissandier

Production Design

Claire Lacaze

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Lucinda Syson

Nathalie Cheron

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Transporter Refuelled is no Transporter 2, and Ed Skrein is no Jason Statham. Though Ray Stevenson is a champ as per usual, the film itself feels lazy.

Refueled (spelt wrong) because the franchise has been...refueled, refreshed, revitalised, rebooted...get it? clever huh (ahem!). Frank is back and ready to errr...transport things once again, only this time he's played by newcomer Ed Skrein. It seems Statham realised what a trashy mess this franchise was and decided to bail, probably a good decision there matey. So what are we left with now, well it appears to be a rather cheap and tacky looking reboot chock full of terrible action sequences, wait...yes I'm right. Frank is still a transporter of anything no questions asked. He takes on a job for a quartet of women, the lead female turns out to be an ex-prostitute out for revenge against her ex-pimp. Now normally this probably wouldn't be an issue for old Frank, but these women alter the deal and also kidnap his father in order to gain his cooperation. Now Frank is forced to assist these women in bringing down a dangerous crime boss. That's the crux of it yet there are a few minor twists, nothing mind blowing though so don' get excited. Right first up, the new boy, Ed, apparently a British actor and rapper, never heard of him but he does have a Statham-esque appearance I suppose. He has an odd look though, his lips are pretty thick with an usually strong pink shade to them, either that or it was the films lighting, just something that stood out to me. Plus I've not seen a man clench his jaw this much since Cruise and co in 'Top Gun', like wow! He is joined by Ray Stevenson who plays his father, a slick, womanising vintage wine drinker. A real slimy ladykiller of sorts who clearly knows the business his son is involved in, presumably used to do it himself, I think that was the gist. Despite that he's pretty bloody useless, I've never know someone get kidnapped so easily and so quickly. The ladies in question are a bland quartet also, they all look the same (attire and wigs don't help of course) and none of them can act too well either. What's really funny is they are clearly suppose to be desirable sex objects, but they sooo aren't, not for me anyway. Its actually quite amusing watching them trying to act and pose sexually at various times, very awkward. Action, right well its pretty standard stuff really. Frank drives around in his top of the line Audi S8 D4, it never gets damaged...ever, and this time he has two apparently. The other just sits parked up in a multi-storey car park just waiting to be used. Although this entire notion makes no sense in itself because the first Audi he drives can change license plates at the push of a button, ala James Bond. So why would he need to abandon it, and then blow it up whilst changing cars, surely the changing plates cover you. Anyway the star of the show is clearly the car lets be honest, this thing has so many slow motion flybys and close ups you'd think it was car porn, oh wait...it is car porn. Heck even the car chases are a typically predictable affair with lots of small crappy police cars flippin' all over the show as they try to stop the Audi (all in slow motion of course, with lots of explosions). The fisticuffs we see are again standard fluff and nothing to rave about, in fact its actually low quality fluff. All the fights looked terribly choreographed to me, very fake looking and quite slow, you can see the blokes getting ready to duck. Skrein handles himself OK but there is nothing impressive going on here, its all cookie cutter crapola and half of it feels totally unnecessary too. Example, Frank and the ladies are all in the Audi, the gates ahead are shut and there are a few bad guys lingering. So Frank puts the car into neutral (I think) and lets it slowly coast towards the gates. He then gets out and starts to fight the various henchmen surrounding the car as it slowly rolls towards the gates. Inside the ladies are frantic and don't know what to do as the car slowly gets closer to the gates. Frank beats all the bad guys up just in time, then leaps back into the car, puts his foot down and smashes through the gates. Now, what was the fucking point in all that?? why didn't he just drive the car through the gates in the first place whilst driving through the bad guys, I'm sure they would have jumped out of the way. This entire action sequence was utterly pointless and merely serves to showcase a fight, a pointless, waste of time fight that made no sense. Most of the fighting in this movie felt very much like this. The main bad guys are you're typical Euro trash, plenty of bling and no brains, plus they all drink like fish. Anyone ever noticed this with movie villains and their henchmen? they always drink like crazy, everywhere they go, every scene, they're drinking expensive alcohol like water. Also, with all movie bad guys, none of them can shoot straight either. In the finale everyone is standing in a small cabin on a boat, all are armed with automatic weapons or whatever, everyone is pointing at everyone, yet when it all kicks off, they all miss each other at point blank range. Well a few faceless guys get blown away of course but the main characters all manage to dodge the hail of bullets. Despite all that, one of many problems is the fact that there is no real tension or suspense here. The ladies kidnap Frank's dad, but he's such a man whore that he ends up trying it on with all of them! during his kidnapping! At no point was there ever any real threat because this guys trying to pull all the time and the ladies end up falling for it. To top that, in the end they all join forces and continue against the crime boss, so, why did we need the previous pointless plot about hiring Frank and kidnapping his dad originally. The ladies could of just hired Frank for the caper right from the start, the first half of the movie is, again, rendered pointless. I had to giggle at the scene where Frank's dad extracts a bullet from one of the girls and then seals the wound using an unusually large amount of spider cobwebs. Admittedly I have no clue if what he says about cobwebs is true, but it was the comically large amount the other girl manages to collect which just seemed so daft. Plus wouldn't the webs just fizzle away to nothing when set alight? its bloody spider webs! You have to wonder just what exactly was the point in all this, this whole movie is such a poor mishmash of various other action flicks, its not even relatable to the original movie concept really. The original Statham flicks were almost like graphic novel adaptations, comicbook type actioners. But here they have tried to blend the serious aspects of James Bond with 'Ronin', they have actually tried to make a serious dramatic action heist...but its woefully lacking. But who actually wanted more from this long dead franchise? especially without Statham, bizarre reboot.

This film lacked any real action and is a poor reboot sequel or whatever it is. The lead actor just suffers in comparison to Stathem who really was well cast in the previous films. The story really isn't good and the action is really basic, I loved the lunacy of the original series.

Camille Delamarre's bland 90 minute reboot flop of the superior 2002 high-octane action thriller that starred Jason Statham. Ed Skrein fails big time trying to take over Statham's role of Frank, a laconic no-nonsense getaway driver and martial arts expert who moves people and things for a price. Skrein uses a carbon-copy accent and zero charm, he does not have Statham's bullet-head charisma or his commanding presence or fighting skill. The story concerns Frank's new job for a vengeance-seeking prostitute named Anna, well-played by loan Chadbanol, she and three other whores pull off some big money robberies to get back at their former pimp, Frank does not want to get involved, but Anna kidnaps Frank's father, a superb Ray Stevenson, Frank than is forced to help them. The action sequences are well done but dumb, and the villains are laughable 80s stereotypes. Standard boring direction by Delamarre, this reboot is running on empty. Not Recommended.

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