a5c7b9f00b In the south of France, black Ops mercenary Frank Martin is leading a quiet life, living with his father. He gets illegally hired by 3 mysterious women who force him to be the getaway driver for them robbing a bank. Soon he finds the bank they hit was that of a powerful Russian Kingpin who has his father as hostage. Frank must figure out what is going on, clear his name and save his father.
Frank Martin, played by newcomer Ed Skrein, a former special-ops mercenary, is now living a less perilous life - or so he thinks - transporting classified packages for questionable people. When Frank's father (Ray Stevenson) pays him a visit in the south of France, their father-son bonding weekend takes a turn for the worse when Frank is engaged by a cunning femme-fatale, Anna (Loan Chabanol), and her three seductive sidekicks to orchestrate the bank heist of the century. Frank must use his covert expertise and knowledge of fast cars, fast driving and fast women to outrun a sinister Russian kingpin, and worse than that, he is thrust into a dangerous game of chess with a team of gorgeous women out for revenge. From the producers of LUCY and the TAKEN trilogy, THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED is a fresh personification of the iconic role of Frank Martin, that launches the high-octane franchise into the present-day and introduces it to the next generation of thrill-seekers.
This attempt at rebooting the transporter franchise has been out for a few years now and nothing has been heard from it, probably because it is awful. The premise of the film sees the transporter forced into working a job because his estranged father is kidnapped. Ed skein plays the transporter in this film and he is a decent actor, I saw this in deadpool but in this film he is bad. He just doesn't fit the role and I didn't care about his character at all. There was just no charisma or life to his performance to help drag this film. Ray stevens plays his father in the film and I really didn't care about there relationship at all, he came across as pretty annoying and whiny which didn't help. All the other companions and villains in the film were garbage with no interesting things about them at all. The story in the film is so overcomplicated and ridiculous that you will lose track of what's going on or why you should even care. The script is cheesy and boring in all the wrong ways, nothing is funny and nothing brings out the drama so why should you care. The style has some okay action scenes but there is also some action scenes that are stupidly elaborate and awkward that you are questioning what you are watching. Overall this film is definitely not worth a watch unless you like awful action films.
If this shows any inclination of spoiler, then my apologies. I went to the theater expecting what was listed on the genre for this movie. Unfortunately, to my dismay, this movie should be reclassified...the action, thriller, and crime was at the minimum, if not less than minimum; in comparison to all the earlier "Transporter" movies. Unless you like a movie about romance, drama, suspense, then this is the movie for you to view, otherwise, don't bother. I am so disappointed in the movie, that I went and got my money back with my explanation that the theater should file a claim as this is not even close to the expectation of what it is rated or even described.
Director Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions) and his collaborators have devised a few nifty sequences.