Brit Jason Statham again plays a character so stoic as to make Arnold Schwarzeneggar seem expressive. Statham barely flinches when a dozen guys confront him at once or, for that matter, when politely declining an offer of easy sex. Disappointly, the setting is transferred from the mildly exotic South of France to Miami, our hero slumming as a rich tyke’s chauffeur. This is fortunate for his employers when some generic bad guys snatch the child. In keeping with its American setting, the action is a bit more over the top than in Transporter. It’s nowhere near as absurd as Bad Boys II, another Miami-set action film, but there are not one but at least three scenes where the bad guys have guns pointed at Statham and inexplicably hesitate to shoot, and the bad guys’ scheme is pretty silly. On the whole, fans of the first Transporter will still find appeal in the character, the various scenes of Statham fending off faceless adversaries, and a couple of flying-vehicle sequences that better the ones in Dukes of Hazzard.
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viewed 9/3/05 at Moorestown and reviewed 9/6/05
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