There's a development of some interest to students of product placement. Modine efficiently plays the role of the sniveling bureaucrat, Amber Valetta is effective as his long-suffering wife, and Kate Nauta plays Lola, a deadly vixen who considers herself dressed after she's troweled on her eye makeup for Lola, it's run, mascara, run. They're deployed by Gianni ( Alessandro Gassman), a really big, really mean, really smart villain. He stars in several martial arts sequences in which he wipes out whole platoons of enemies. Jason Statham is amusing as a man whose emotions are so well under control that he can barely be bothered to have any. Not recently have I seen a movie with a better reason why the worst bad guy cannot be allowed to sink to the ocean floor along with the crashed airplane.īut not another word about that. Let me just observe that the methods of the kidnappers involves scientific ingenuity raised to evil genius. ![]() The kid is kidnapped in a bizarre scheme involving a phony doctor, and then he's recovered too quickly, and without the ransom money being picked up, and it turns out the kidnapping - well, you'll see for yourself. It begins with Frank Martin helping out a friend by filling in for a month as the driver and bodyguard for a cute kid named Jack ( Hunter Clary), whose dad Jackson ( Matthew Modine) heads the United States narcotics agency. "Transporter 2" is better for a number of reasons, one of them that is has an ingenious plot that continues to reveal surprises and complications well into the third act this is not simply a movie where the good guy chases the bad guys, but a movie where the story turns a lot trickier than we expected. Look him up on if you want to feel tired just reading about his plans. That movie was also written and produced by Luc Besson, who is the hardest-working man in show business. And when he leads a police pursuit up the ramps of a parking garage and then crashes his car through a wall of the garage, and it flies a couple of hundred feet through the air to a safe landing.Įither "Transporter 2" is wall to wall with absurd action, or it's not a sequel to "Transporter." And in fact the sequel is a better film than the original, as if writer-producer Luc Besson had a clearer idea of what he wanted to do (and didn't want to do) the direction is by Louis Leterrier, whose " Unleashed," released only three months ago, had that savage chemistry between a gangster ( Bob Hoskins) and a fighter ( Jet Li) he had raised like a dog. And when he escapes from a plane that has crashed into the ocean. And when he uses a fire hose to immobilize a posse of killers. ![]() Other stunts and computer-generated effects, were equally impossible, as when Frank Martin ( Jason Statham) flies a jet ski onto a highway and jumps from it into the back of a school bus. I could observe that this is preposterous, but the fact is, I laughed aloud.
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