Transporter 3 (2008)
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Reviews Counted:104
Fresh:39
Rotten:65
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: This middling installment in the Transporter franchise is a few steps down from its predecessors, featuring generic stunts and a lack of energy.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Feb 5, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $31,316,973
Synopsis: Combining Western-style car chases and Hong Kong-inspired fight sequences choreographed by martial arts legend Cory Yuen, the Luc Besson-created TRANSPORTER films have found international success... [More]
Starring: Jason Statham, Robert Knepper, Francois Berleand, Natalya Rudakova
Director: Olivier Megaton
Reviews for Transporter 3
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 3/5 |
Though director Olivier Megaton exhibits a good bit of that annoyingly jagged editing that's become all the rage in action films, he has the good sense to never cut away from Statham's pecs. Full Review |
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The good thing about Transporter 3 is that you know exactly what to expect. There's reluctant hero Jason Statham, a deadly villain, exotic European locations, car chases, hot action and .. of course there's a girl Full Review |
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With insulting action sequences and a tacked-on love scene, the movie quickly veers into a downward spiral. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Transporter 3 is the cinematic equivalent of cotton candy: a quick sugar rush that melts in your mouth and is forgotten five minutes later. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
A preposterous, over the top and entertaining return of Frank Martin, the courier who delivers anything without question. Forget the ludicrous plot and just sit back and enjoy the fight and driving sequences. Full Review |
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Most film trilogies usually drop the ball on the third entry, but if you want to see it done right, check out the fun, unpretentious Transporter 3. Full Review |
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D |
As a fan of Statham and the Transporter series, it's a massive disappointment. The story makes no sense, and there aren't even very many fight scenes. Full Review |
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1/5 |
I wanted to be transported out of the theater. Full Review |
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For the most part, the fights and chases are as implausible as the story, but there's an extraordinarily clever escape-from-certain-death bit about 20 minutes from the end that I don't think I've ever seen before. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Silly, imaginative fun. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Incoherent and inconsistent, this is a step back for Statham in his quest to become more than a cult figure. Full Review |
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4/6 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
With its eco-trappings, car chases and fights, the film feels very sub-Quantum Of Solace. The fact that Quantum itself felt very sub-Bourne says even less for Transporter 3. Even if you're a Statham fan, this series is starting to feel tired. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Transporter 3 is a reassuringly beefy thriller in which Jason Statham has to drive very fast across Eastern Europe with a Ukranian beauty queen on the seat beside him. No one, including Jason, has the slightest clue why. Never mind. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Statham is a relatively entertaining action hero - though he is better in the Crank films. The script is by Besson, but the director is Olivier Megaton, whose surname is the most exciting thing about the film. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Luc Besson's modestly-budgeted but wildly successful franchise shows signs of broadening to include romance and humour. Full Review |
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2/5 |
The most impressive thing on offer is Statham’s straight face…but why the sadistic Besson forced him through a romantic clinch in the Ukrainian equivalent of the Cotswolds is anybody’s guess. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Transporter 3 is going to make an awful lot of money. It has in abundance the ingredient that was missing from the last Bond film: a sense of its own idiocy. Full Review |
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3/5 |
It is a full-throttle action film which works best if you leave your brain at the door... and there's nothing wrong with that! Full Review |
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3/5 |
Slowing the pace for romance is also a bad idea because it gives the audience the chance to spot plot holes bigger than Iceland’s debt. But when he sticks to car chases, explosions and chest-kicking action, Statham delivers. Full Review |
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