Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

The best movie Steven Seagal never made. Except that Statham, while just as marked for death, is harder to kill.

Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan

A blending of international film sensibilities -- France meets Hollywood meets Hong Kong -- with a very cool anti-hero protagonist.

L.A. Weekly by John Patterson

Immensely exciting and funny.

Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

A poke in the adrenal gland -- obeys the first law of action movie-making by quickening the heart and dazzling the eye.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

A thoroughly satisfying mix of mayhem and mindless fun.

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

Kinetic, meaningless and fun.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

There's plenty to like here, especially for connoisseurs of the action genre, and there's also plenty to make you wonder whether Besson and co-writer Robert Mark Kamen scribbled their screenplay on a batch of Marseilles cocktail napkins and then lost one or two.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Ray Conlogue

This is a film where there isn't the slightest doubt about the dramatic outcome. But the marketing will be a cliffhanger.

Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow

Cut above this genre's usual industrial sludge, even when the chops and kicks are too fast to follow.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Too much action brings the movie to a dead standstill. Why don't directors understand that? Why don't they know that wall-to-wall action makes a movie less interesting -- less like drama, more like a repetitive video game?

Los Angeles Times by Manohla Dargis

The plot doesn't rate as high as the quality of the bodies in fast, furious motion. What counts in The Transporter isn't the wafer-thin story about smugglers -- it's the way Martin kicks open a door, fends off a couple of axes and uses a perfectly ordinary sport shirt as a weapon.

Austin Chronicle by Marrit Ingman

A slick, sexy little package with fast cars, big explosions, dazzling locations in the south of France, a trip-hop score, and about as much plot to fill a thimble.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

So second-hand and disposable is it in every respect.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

If anything, The Transporter isn't ludicrous enough; only one scene (a hand-to-hand showdown in the middle of an oil slick) reaches the inspired, delirious comic heights of the best Hong Kong movies.

TV Guide Magazine by Steve Simels

It takes perverse genius to make an action film this stupid.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

That the movie becomes silly isn't necessarily a problem, but it also becomes tiresome, degenerating into a series of martial arts interludes -- everyone unaccountably leaves his guns at home.