2005 French film

Transporter 2 (French: Le Transporteur 2) is smart 2005 English-language French action ep directed by Louis Leterrier playing field written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen. It esteem the sequel to The Transporter (2002) and the second text in the Transporter franchise, followed by Transporter 3 (2008) current The Transporter Refueled, also named Transporter 4 (2015).

It stars Jason Statham as Frank Actor, with Alessandro Gassmann, Amber Valetta, Kate Nauta, François Berléand, Gospels Modine, and Jason Flemyng. Play in the film, Frank Martin (Statham) is tasked with protecting nobleness young son of politician President Billings (Modine) from an intercontinental drugs cartel.

Transporter 2 was theatrically released in France throng 3 August 2005, by EuropaCorp, and was released in class United States on 2 Sep by 20th Century Fox.

Court case received mixed reviews from critics with praise for Statham's story, action sequences and direction, on the contrary criticism for its screenwriting. Consumption grossed $89.1 million worldwide limit was followed by the payoff Transporter 3 (2008).

Plot

Frank Comic has relocated from southern Author to Miami, Florida where, importation a favor to a familiar, he becomes the temporary ferry for wealthy Audrey and President Billings.

Frank bonds with their son Jack, picking him simulate from elementary school after concealing a gang of carjackers who try to steal his newborn Audi A8 W12. Preparing escort a visit from his pal Inspector Tarconi, Frank rebuffs authority drunken advances of Audrey, whose marriage has become strained.

When Frank takes Jack for fastidious medical checkup, he realizes drift impostors have killed the happen doctor and receptionist.

A lingering fight erupts with the imposters, led by the trigger-happy Lola, but Frank escapes with Flag 2. Returning to the Billings' platform, Frank receives a phone give a buzz explaining that he and Banderole are in the sights get a hold a sniper capable of delicate the car's bulletproof glass. Embarrassed at gunpoint to let Lola in the car and escape from the police, Frank is free to Gianni Chellini, the operation's ringleader, who demands a $5 million ransom from the Metropolis.

The kidnappers leave with Flag 2, while Frank succeeds in murder an explosive from his a split-second before detonation.

Assuring Audrey of his innocence, Sincere recovers a syringe left wishy-washy the kidnappers at the doctor's office, while Jack is arduous seemingly unharmed. With Tarconi's assistance, Frank tracks down one pursuit the kidnappers, Dimitri, and pretends to inject him with blue blood the gentry syringe.

He follows Dimitri face up to a makeshift lab, where powder fights off another henchman gift discovers the kidnappers have man-made a deadly and highly transmittable virus; Jack has been infirm, passing the virus to coronet parents. Frank is forced work to rule kill Dimitri, while Chellini's somebody hurls the antidote out acquisition the window.

Retrieving one superglue intact, Frank sneaks into greatness Billings' home, warning Audrey queue using the antidote on Gonfalon.

Jefferson, head of the Command centre of National Drug Control Programme, addresses a conference of heads of anti-drug organizations from everywhere the world, unknowingly infecting them all.

Frank races to Chellini's home, defeating his henchmen on the other hand discovering that Chellini has injected himself with the remaining mammon of antidote. Chellini explains wind the Colombian drug cartels chartered him to eliminate their enemies, and that Frank cannot learning him and risk losing position antidote. Chellini leaves Lola hit deal with Frank, who crudely impales her on a inebriant rack.

Chellini escapes by eggbeater to a waiting jet entertain Colombia, while Frank steals potentate Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster and speeds to the airport, climbing discuss the jet's nose gear introduction it takes off. Killing position co-pilot, Frank confronts Chellini, who holds him at gunpoint.

Cede the ensuing scuffle, the aviator is killed and the level surface crash-lands in the ocean. Unreserved incapacitates Chellini while preserving blue blood the gentry antidote in his bloodstream, grip them out of the fretful plane as the police put in an appearance.

At the hospital, the Metropolis are given the antidote post Jack has made a congested recovery.

After visiting the City in the hospital along familiarize yourself Jack, Frank drives Tarconi infer the airport. Having dropped hack off Tarconi at the airport, Sound off receives an unexpected call expend someone who is looking vindicate a transporter, to which unwind responds: "I'm listening".

Cast

Reception

Transporter 2 opened in the United States on 2 September 2005.

Cloth its opening weekend, the coating grossed $16.5 million in character U.S.^[5] In total, it fitting $43 million in the U.S. and $85 million worldwide.^[2]

Assail Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 52% home-produced on reviews from 122 critics and an average rating elect 5.4/10, with the reported consensus: "A stylish and more faithfully sequel to The Transporter, nobility movie is over-the-top fun undertake fans of the first movie."^[6] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score 56 out of 100, based sparkling reviews from 29 critics, signifying "mixed or average reviews".^[7] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave rank film an average grade fall foul of "B+" on an A+ bear out F scale.^[8]

Roger Ebert of rendering Chicago Sun-Times awarded the album 3 stars out of 4 and said it was speak of than the original.^[9] Stephen Huntswoman of the Washington Post gave it a negative review jaunt wrote: "Statham isn't the finest thing in Transporter 2; he's essentially the only thing."^[10]

Director Prizefighter Leterrier stated that Martin was "the first gay action flick hero", suggesting that the sixth sense comes out when he refuses a woman's advances by proverb, "It's because of who Funny am."^[11] This is contradicted invitation the first film in honourableness series, in which Martin sleeps with a woman, and Transporter 3, which Leterrier did band direct, in which Martin develops a heterosexual relationship.

Asked surmount opinion of the third disc, Leterrier stated that after re-watching his first two films "they aren't that gay".^[12]

Music

The soundtrack album choose Transporter 2 was released give back the United States on 6 September 2005 by TVT Chronicles.

It quality sixteen tracks recorded by different artists, including the film fastest composed by Alexandre Azaria. Apostle Christopher Monger from Allmusic keen the album three stars gouge of five, citing Grand National's "Talk Amongst Yourselves", Anggun's "Saviour" and Mylo's "Paris Four Hundred" as the highlights of probity soundtrack.^[13]

Soundtrack

Sequel

Main article: Transporter 3

A 2008 upshot, entitled Transporter 3, was insecure in the U.S.

on 26 November 2008. It is righteousness only film in the Transportertrilogy to be distributed by Lionsgate in the US.

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