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Year:	2005
Country of origin:	France / USA
Director:	Louis Leterrier
Genre:	Testosterone laced actioner
Starring:	Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, Matthew Modine, Jason Flemyng, François Berléand
Rating:	5/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388482/
Tagline:	The Best In The Business Is Back In The Game.
Favourite line:	"My problem isn't physical... it's psychological."

Jason Statham, the most manly male to ever grace the screen - possibly to ever have existed - returns to the role of Frank Martin, the Transporter, a mercenary hired for his driving prowess and his capacity for showing no interest in the cargo he moves from one location to another.
Here, we pick him up again in the US, having relocated from France and he's now working as a driver for a ferociously wealthy businessman, though it is the son of the businessman he drives to school and back.
Whilst taking the little whipper-snapper to a doctors appointment, it becomes apparent that the doctors surgery is not all that it should be and the real workers have in fact been killed, replaced by a crack team whose mission is to kidnap the boy.
Why?
So that they can inject him with a lethal disease, with the hope that he will pass the disease onto his father who will then pass the same disease onto a meeting he is attending where major players in the battle against narcotics are due to attend.

Sound convoluted?
Well, it's not really and, truthfully, the plot itself is merely a framework around which to drape set piece after set-piece, each more eye-popping than the one before, as well as myriad fight sequences.
The stunt work is simply astounding, pulse-poundingly exciting and utterly implausible (the sequence where The Stath removes a bomb attached to the bottom of his car by flipping the vehicle past a crane hook has to be seen to be believed) and the fight sequences will send you giddy. Seriously, this could be the most violent movie I have ever seen, each fist into face shown in all its fleshy detail, with sound effects to match.
If ever you find yourself watching Bond and wondering what it would be like if the production team all took amphetamines and then shot the picture, well this may be as close as you are ever likely to get.
Balls to the wall action all round with a charismatic, though fairly monosyllabic lead man, this is pure entertainment just for the sheer sake of it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Special mention also must be made of Kate Nauta, playing femme fatale Lola, the sexiest creature I've seen in a movie for a while, striding around for the most part in bra and suspenders wielding two simply awesome guns.
What more can a man ask for?
Eh?
EH?
Enjoyed it..