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Vorsuc · 01-12-2006, 10:08 AM

Also just watched Transporter 2 .. rented out the first one to re-cap. Glad I did, there's a couple of bits that are a nod to the first (identical beginings, couple of lines of dialogue).

Sadly though it suffers for higher budget and US setting. While Miami is nice, after CSI I'm kind of thinking I know it as well as a local now.

The first movie relied on solid special effects (guns and explosions mainly) mixed in with a couple of nicely done fight scenes (the container, the bus station, kicking in the door a the mansion, etc). The second only really has one cool fight sequence (the garage) a whole bunch of dodgy CGI that just doesn't work and throws in so many cheap 2-d character that it makes the first look like Shakespeare

A kidnapping you say? Lets see, we need the over emotional mom, the distant and cold father, the hard-nosed cop who is an expert in these situations and knows precisely how the bad guys will react, etc...

As a big fan of the BMW short movies about "the driver", I loved transporter for almost being a big screen translation. Ok, they ruined it a little by giving him a name and a past, but in the second they stomp all over the "mysterious lone driver" figure by having him be a better father to his charge that his biological one as well as the "I promise I won't let anyone hurt you and I always keep my promises" line. Urgh, action hero sentimentality, someone bathe me, I feel unclean. Just look rugged, shoot and kick people in the face. If I want dialogue, I'll rent Four Weddings.

It was an enjoyable waste of an hour and a half, though if only for the one fight scene and the continued trend of the movies to show car chases don't HAVE to just be about close ups of the driver changing gear[1].

[1] See: Gone in Sixty Seconds, in which Cage is apparently driving a 7+ gear car.

01-12-2006, 10:08 AM	#1169
Vorsuc Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Baton Rouge, LA Posts: 46	Also just watched Transporter 2 .. rented out the first one to re-cap. Glad I did, there's a couple of bits that are a nod to the first (identical beginings, couple of lines of dialogue). Sadly though it suffers for higher budget and US setting. While Miami is nice, after CSI I'm kind of thinking I know it as well as a local now. The first movie relied on solid special effects (guns and explosions mainly) mixed in with a couple of nicely done fight scenes (the container, the bus station, kicking in the door a the mansion, etc). The second only really has one cool fight sequence (the garage) a whole bunch of dodgy CGI that just doesn't work and throws in so many cheap 2-d character that it makes the first look like Shakespeare A kidnapping you say? Lets see, we need the over emotional mom, the distant and cold father, the hard-nosed cop who is an expert in these situations and knows precisely how the bad guys will react, etc... As a big fan of the BMW short movies about "the driver", I loved transporter for almost being a big screen translation. Ok, they ruined it a little by giving him a name and a past, but in the second they stomp all over the "mysterious lone driver" figure by having him be a better father to his charge that his biological one as well as the "I promise I won't let anyone hurt you and I always keep my promises" line. Urgh, action hero sentimentality, someone bathe me, I feel unclean. Just look rugged, shoot and kick people in the face. If I want dialogue, I'll rent Four Weddings. It was an enjoyable waste of an hour and a half, though if only for the one fight scene and the continued trend of the movies to show car chases don't HAVE to just be about close ups of the driver changing gear[1]. [1] See: Gone in Sixty Seconds, in which Cage is apparently driving a 7+ gear car.