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Review : A story about a man delivering packages, no matter how skilled he is at driving a German roadster on two wheels or skidding onto the roof of a speeding train, is still a story about a deliveryman.
It's a questionable concept for one movie, let alone a trio of them. But Transporter 3 (* * out of four), like its predecessors, rides on the good looks and charisma of star Jason Statham.
The stunts can be impressive, too, though many of them take place in cars that seem like blatant product placements. Though there are a lot of beat-downs, no blood seems to be spilled, presumably to guarantee a PG-13 rating.
Statham again plays courier Frank Martin. Supremely macho and brooding, he essentially is a comic-book hero with a dose of James Bond. He manages to take down dozens of trained fighters and emerge without a bruise.
This time, the chief villain is Johnson (Robert Knepper), who works for an American corporation whose business appears to be dumping toxic waste. But the plot is as murky as the Caspian Sea will be if the company succeeds.
The villains have kidnapped Valentina (Natalya Rudakova), the daughter of the head of the environmental protection agency for Ukraine. She is being held to induce her father to permit the company to dump its sludge.
Valentina is either sullen, asleep or obnoxiously giddy from booze and pills. But she sounds like she could be Borat's sister when she proclaims to Frank: "I want to feel the sex one more time before I die." And when Frank doesn't immediately respond to her overtures, she is convinced his interests lie elsewhere. "You're the gay!" she yells. His response: "No, I am not the gay. Did it ever occur to you that maybe I'm not in the mood?"
Somehow Statham comes out of this improbable thriller with his dignity intact. With classic action-hero qualities and dry wit, he seems woefully under-employed as a deliveryman. (Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence, some sexual content and drug material.)
Running Time : 1 hour, 43 minutes.
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