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The Transporter Refueled

The Transporter Refueled

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In the criminal underworld of the French Riviera, former special-ops mercenary Frank Martin is forced to return to action when his father is abducted by a femme fatale and her sidekicks, who recruit Frank for their plot of revenge against a sinister Russian kingpin and human trafficker.

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70

Arizona Republic by Randy Cordova

It's mindless entertainment with enough thrills and chuckles to make the time pass painlessly. Just don't examine anything too closely.

67

Entertainment Weekly by Kyle Anderson

It’s hard to deny the hedonistic joy in the way Delamarre plays with his various toys, and the goofball stunts—including the yacht-based finale, with a special appearance by a jet ski—are generally worth wandering through the dialogue desert.

67

The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Refueled isn’t a good movie by most metrics, but it is consistently committed to mainlining the basest action-movie pleasures at the expense of damn near everything else.

60

Variety by Andrew Barker

The Transporter Refueled comes up strong where it counts, with frequent bursts of ludicrously implausible yet coherently directed mayhem.

50

Boston Globe by Tom Russo

Director and Team Besson member Camille Delamarre (“Brick Mansions”) speeds us from one action sequence to the next with a style that alternates between routine, clunky, and modestly inspired.

42

The Playlist by Nick Schager

Amidst this goofiness, Skrein proves a serviceable Statham replacement, capable of executing elaborate martial arts-inspired fight moves, glowering behind the wheel of his car, and generally acting like a cold, detached thug-for-hire who, deep down, has a heart of gold.

40

Screen Daily by Tim Grierson

The first Transporter film in seven years is moderately entertaining and reliably ludicrous in all the predictable ways, but the film’s new sharp-dressed driver doesn’t possess the effortless stoic wit of the original trilogy’s Jason Statham, which ends up making all the difference.

40

TheWrap by James Rocchi

The action’s accent on Russian rogues, lethal ladies and Rivera-set car chases makes The Transporter Refueled feel less like a film and more like the world’s most violent Vanity Fair fashion spread, all poses and pouts instead of the two-fisted, rough life of the originals.

40

Screen International by Tim Grierson

The first Transporter film in seven years is moderately entertaining and reliably ludicrous in all the predictable ways, but the film’s new sharp-dressed driver doesn’t possess the effortless stoic wit of the original trilogy’s Jason Statham, which ends up making all the difference.

40

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Director Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions) and his collaborators have devised a few nifty sequences.

40

The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

The Transporter Refueled is crass and nonsensical, but it is hard to hate a movie in which a medical anesthetic is administered with a nightclub fog machine, the weapons include a ringed life preserver, an escape from a moving plane continues by car onto a jetway and the touch-screen banking software appears expressly designed for double-crossing.

38

Slant Magazine by Kenji Fujishima

The titular Transporter is now but a blank slate serving the characters and mayhem surrounding him, a walking metaphor for a franchise that's run out of gas.

25

San Francisco Chronicle

The movie’s ridiculous.

25

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

The chases are nothing special.

20

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

The samurai code of Transporting has been ditched, the budget slashed, the product placement upped through the roof. And it’s the first of a threatened trilogy.