Transporter 3
4/5 stars
Jason Statham is back in action in “Transporter 3″ This time around, he is forced to take on a job by a ruthless villain played by Robert Knepper, more formerly known as the psychopath killer “T-Bag” in FOX’s hit show, Prison Break. Knepper’s character, Johnson, put Frank on a tight leash, so if he went beyond 25 feet of his car, he would be killed.
The idea of Frank tied to his car for the whole film might seem interesting at first, but after a few minutes you begin to realize that he is stuck with his car the whole film…So there is a lot of driving, I mean a lot. Which wouldn’t necessarily mean a bad thing, but a majority of the driving is just driving, not racing, or dodging traffic, or even doing neat tricks with the car. Don’t get me wrong, all of the above is in the film, but theres just as much normal driving as well, which made me personally feel ripped off.
As for the plot. I am torn with the plot. At times I think it’s going to be really smart and amazing, then at times I think it’s just predictable. For the most part it just became predictable. It was also very confusing, I may have missed something, but in the long run, there never seemed to be a reason why Johnson needed him to transport. He kept changing the location ofver and over again, making Frank go in circles, and in the end, Frank just delivered the package BACK to Johnson. So if I missed something, forgive me, but right now, I am just confused. I was also dissapointed in some of the driving scenes, they were obviously sped up, which took away from the experience.
I loved the first film, I even loved the second film. The third one? Well lets just say I liked it, it was simply just done differnetly than I imagined. Which is not a bad thing, I think what they did with it was very well thought out…to a degree. It has it’s faults just as any film would, but I think a few stood out more than average. To me, Jason Statham’s character is a bit like the hit TV show 24’s hero, Jack Bauer. Not the personality, but the joy of seeing him in character again. That feeling only came during the first few minutes of seeing him. Overall, a great movie on its own, but when trying to live up to the bar the first two set, this one strayed just below, peace out!
