Movie #9 The Transporter 3

I must say that I was definitely shocked with the reviews I read on Rotten Tomatoes about the Transporter 3. It only received 38% on the tomatometer, and received 39 fresh reviews and 64 rotten reviews! If you are into action and adventure movies, I would highly recommend it, yea the plot is a little crazy and unrealistic, but so is the one in every other action movie. A lot of the fresh reviews were praising the high speed chase driving scenes and how Jason Statham who plays Frank Martin is a good on screen fighter. Some of the rotten reviews were complaints of how usually trilogies do not always end up so good because the movies is the series tend to only get worse and never better.

For those of you who have not seen this movie here is a quick review.. Jason Statham plays Frank Martin, and he is the original transporter and has been it since the first movie came out. He is always faced with a seemingly impossible task and always manages to complete it no matter what. This time he has to transport Valentina, who is the daughter of a Ukrainian environmental official, they are holding her for collateral so that he can sign permission for Johnson (criminal master-mind behind the whole plan) to ship toxic materials into the harbor. Frank Martin is forced to complete the task because the man he recommended for the job did not complete the task therefore Johnson believes Martin is responsible.

Along the journey, there is high speed chases and Hong Kong inspired fighting scenes. Of course Valentina and Frank Martin fall in love because what is an action movie without the hero and his woman that he is saving right? In the end, Johnson is dead and Valentina's father is not tricked into signing the contract. As for Frank Martin and Valentina, well they are living life happily ever after in Europe.

I was shocked with the reviews becasue I really did think it was a good movie. I have seen the first one and I would agree nothing is usually as good as the first thing. However, I have not seen the second one so I could not compare the two, but over all I thought it was good and I enjoyed it.