The Transporter 2 Could Be Good

Screenshot from The Transporter 2 Trailer

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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