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Movie Review Of The Transporter In High Definition
I am skeptical, at best, of action movies that involve simple crime movie plots. The life of a package boy does not interest me in any way, and taking a package from one place to another seems pretty predictable even if you are getting shot at. I was surprised by "The Transporter" for this very reason. It blows away the other crappy action movies released about the same time and kept my attention. I was fortunate enough to catch this movie in stunning high definition on the home theater with a friend.
Frank Martin, living in France, contracts out his service as a transporter. He takes just about any package from one place to another for an enormous fee. For this fee, you get a package UPS would not take delivered with complete secrecy. He does not have to deal with people much, and he makes a really nice salary. He has two houses with beach locations, an expensive car, and a dangerous job. If James Bond were a criminal, he would be this guy.
His clients are the big, shady criminals you would expect. For this reason, Martin has three rules about his job. He never changes a deal once it has been made, nor does he allow the other guy to. He never opens a package he is delivering, and he never gives out names. Of course there would be no conflict if for some reason these rules were not, at some point, broken.
The movie begins with four scrambling bank robbers jumping into his car after a heist. The problem here is that the deal was for three robbers, not four. The criminals threaten him profusely, but he only explains why the fourth is a problem. It throws off the weight, timing, etc.
Things are cleared up when Martin takes French police on a daring chase through the city. The move then moves on to a nice plot about human smuggling and broken rules.
When you're dealing with the kind of people that he deals with, it's generally best not to really know much about what's really going on. Especially when you have a friendly but attentive police detective making occasional house calls to your beautiful beach house and wondering about things like getaways being made in cars exactly like yours and, pray tell, why your very car was found blown to pieces with two police officers in the trunk. If nothing else, the French seem pretty generous with the benefit of the doubt.
The next shipment is a girl. He breaks the rules by buying her food and letting her go into the woods to relieve herself. This prompts his conscious to help, which leads him to bust a human smuggling ring. If you have not seen a movie full of action like this in high definition, you should. It is an accurate test for high definition, and the high def holds up with flying colors. It is a moving scene to watch hundreds of people in stark clarity, walk out of shipping containers after being smuggled into the country.
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