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(these first 3 are also mentioned in the TV Series) Martin is also an accomplished sharpshooter.įrank Martin carries out his business according to strict rules, which he is loath to break, and expects his clients to adhere to them or face a breach of contract. Frank often engages in hand-to-hand combat, having to improvise using unconventional weapons against his opponents. Emphasis is given to his skills as an accomplished driver, able to conduct seemingly impossible maneuvers while retaining perfect control of his vehicle. Possibly through his Irish army and and his Irish army ranger wing background, Frank is portrayed as having expertise with explosives, surveillance, hand-to-hand combat, and evasive driving. However he did manage to attract the suspicions of the police in France, where he had been living quietly in an old place on the coast. The film in microcosm, then.Frank Martin's country of origin is unclear - throughout the franchise, but Jason Statham, who portrayed the character in the original film trilogy, seems to speak with a "mid-Atlantic" accent, mixing his own Estuary English accent with a European and also with perhaps a generic Appalachian American accent, suggesting he could be European, British or American, but who may have spent considerable time in another country.įrank Martin is shown to have received the Bronze Star and the Medal of Honor.įrank has already established a good reputation in his secondary, secretive line of work, all the while maintaining an apparently legitimate life. The fight scenes are rote re-runs of the first two films, with nothing to match the slicked-up oil scene of the first, or the firehose bit in the second.Īs for car chases, the big gimmick - that Martin is wired to a bomb that will explode if he strays more than 75 feet from his vehicle - is frustratingly under-used, with the only big set-piece, in which Martin takes after the car on a kid’s bike, clunky and uninvolving when it should have been spry and kinetic. Sadly, though, the only thing explosive about new director Olivier Megaton is his name. In fact, she bangs on about food so much that we thought about giving this two Michelin stars instead.
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And inbetween, she somehow melts Frank’s defences with a strange series of monologues about chicken kiev and dessert.
Valentina inexplicably shifts character throughout, from haughty mute to mad-for-it party girl to eyelid-fluttering damsel-in-distress, with only one unifying factor: she remains unlikable throughout. Mind you, Martin may be kissing her just to shut her up, for rarely has a major character been so misjudged. And, though Martin tersely insists, “I am not the gay,” given the enthusiasm with which he kisses her in a bizarre roadside seduction scene that borders on male rape, she might have a point. So the first time we see him he’s fishing with his buddy, French cop Tarconi (François Berléand), and then becomes something of a wet blanket as he falls for Natalya Rudakova’s Valentina, who seemingly exists purely to disprove the rumour, started by Leterrier, that Martin was, to use Valentina’s own phrase, “the gay”. With previous director Louis Leterrier moving onto greener pastures, writer-producers Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen have decided to humanise Frank Martin.
Transporter 3, though, is a dour, drab affair that takes itself far too seriously. But they were perfectly pitched slices of preposterous fun that went a long way to establishing Statham as a new action hero, as at ease with gruff one-liners as he was with Jackie Chan-esque high-kicking. Nobody will ever pretend that the first two Transporter films were works of art. But, with Transporter 3, we may have found his Achilles heel: the law of diminishing returns. There hasn't been much so far, in his short acting career, that has thwarted Jason Statham.
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