Have you seen the car flick The Transporter? In short, it’s a bit like Ronin-lite. (And, contrary to what the customers who participated Hagerty Insurance’ poll think, in my opinion Ronin is the best car movie of all time.) In any case, even though The Transporter is dumbed-down to a PG-13 rating, it makes for a decent action flick. Well, to be sure, the first third sports some amazing driving while the latter two thirds is a bit more cookie-cutter (it’s worth a rental).
Enough about the first one, though; The Transporter 2 is coming out in September and Apple has the trailer online. While it’s true that trailers can be deceptive — even Van Helsing's trailer made it look halfway bearable — I have a good feeling about this one. I mean, the John Woo allusion (which I’m not going to spoil for you here) is almost reason enough alone to put this movie on my good side ;).
On the downside, there is an overabundance of kids for a few seconds worth of the trailer; let's hope that scene is just as short in the final cut of the film. And, likewise, the “seatbelt” joke falls a bit flat (not that I expect every movie's one-liners to be zingers, but you'd think only the better lines would make it into the trailer). All the same, I’m looking forward to seeing what Metacritic has to say about it (Metacritic is a movie/film/game review aggregator, assigning a “Metascore” to each work based on the overall critical reception).
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Dude, it’s got Jason Statham. Of course it is good.
Good to know, Leia. All, the same, I’ll have to take your word on that one ;).
Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels prove it. He’s awesome. I don’t know why, exactly, but I’ve seen The Transporter six or seven times on cable. Good, good car movie.
Ah, I don’t think I’ve seen those two, Kevin. (In fact, The Transporter may have been the first place I’ve seen Statham.) Having said that, I’ll add those to my Netflix queue right away :).
You can find some information about the starred cars in Transporter 2 (Audi A8 W12 and Audi A3 Sportback 3.2 quattro) here:
http://www.germancarblog.com/2005/07/audi-a8-w12-and-audi-a3-sportback-32.html
Audi will also start a microsite for the movie end of August:
http://www.audi.com/transporter2
Statham does a lot of his own driving, sliding the car around, in the two movies. He has very good driving technique, hand-over-hand shuffle, unlike the actors in the “Fast and the Furious.” In the Transporter 2, the director actually has an Audi A8 barrel roll a crane hook for the shot but it was in the other direction. Get the Transporter, Special Delivery edition for the info.
Thanks for the primo info, GG. I’ll have to add TT:SD to my Netflix queue :).
what is the cost of the car used in the movie transporter2
This happened to be one of my most favorite movie’s ever and I own the second one. Personally I think that the second one was a whole lot better than the first but they are both good.
any ideas what the black car statham stole from the evil chap was? the one he chased in down the highway to miami airport?
the black car is a Lambo Murcialago Roadster
an awesome machine for sure