I recently had the "privilege" of watching The Transporter and its sequels, Transporter 2 and Transporter 3. I resisted watching them for a long time because the titles were so stupid. My intuition has turned out to be correct.
The Transporter movies resemble the Bourne movies, except that those are good. Jason Statham plays Frank Martin, a one man messenger service who charges enough to afford a BMW. Naturally the only people who can afford his rates are Bad Guys.
In the third (and hopefully final) installment, Frank grows a pair and actually kills some of the hordes of ninjas, thugs or henchmen swarming after him. I was starting to wonder: for a mercenary with no conscience he seems to be awfully gentle with his attackers. In general I don't endorse the cartoon approach to entertainment violence. In an actual life or death situation, when people are trying to kill you and you wrestle a machine gun out of someone's hands, bonking them on the head with it is seldom the most likely way to survive.
At the end of the third movie, Frank settles down with the girl. It's nice to see an action movie endorse monogamy. Perhaps her rich powerful father provided a dowry large enough that he could stop taking jobs from people who then try to kill him. One could say that I'm reading too much into it and they're just shacking up, but that's pure conjecture.
Frank frowns on illicit drug use. I hope that doesn't imply someone thinks he's a role model.
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