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Transporter 3

This time, the rules are the same. Except one.

More high action and hijinks as The Transporter gets another tough assignment: look after a young woman, driving around while waiting for his next instruction. He has to protect her from The Baddies, who go to great lengths to kill her. His problems are magnified by the fact that his car is wired to explode if he or she gets more than 25 metres away from it. Critics have bemoaned the lack of an understandable plot.

100 minutes, Mature Accompaniment under 13 (Violence)
Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller.

Credits

Cast

Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, François Berléand, Robert Knepper, Jeroen Krabbé, Alex Kobold, David Atrakchi

Director

Olivier Megaton

Screenplay

Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen

Music

Alexandre Azaria

Cinematography

Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci

Editing

Carmille Delamarre

Sound formats

Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2008

Produced by

Europa Corp., TF1 Film Production, Grive Productions, Apipoulaï, Current Entertainment, Canal+, CinéCinéma

SA Distributor

UIP

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Action
Language	Moderate
Nudity	None
Sex	Mild
Violence	Some
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Brief
Comments	Moderate violence in intense action context.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

South African Media

Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith

Cape TimesMichael Sragow

iAfrica.comNils van der Linden This series is clearly running on empty.

The CitizenPeter Feldman The production is really driven by rapid-fire editing of the action and Jason Statham's no-nonsense charisma.

24.comNiel Bekker Pretty classy trash.

International Media

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert Transporter 3 is a perfectly acceptable brainless action thriller, inspiring us to give a lot of thought to complex sequences we would have been better off sucking on as eye candy.

eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson Transporter 3 feels disappointingly meagre even by the low standard set by its predecessors.

ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli Without a doubt, Transporter 3 offers more innovative ways in which to defy the laws of physics than Transporter or Transporter 2, but it lacks more than a semblance of a coherent plot.

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs It's only Statham's physical presence and strangely charismatic glower, along with the increasingly preposterous and thus resultantly goofy stunts that make the film partially worthwhile. Even so, it's clearly not good enough to warrant another pickup or delivery of a fourth installment.

Metacritic.com26 critics

RottenTomatoes.com98 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer This middling installment in the Transporter franchise is a few steps down from its predecessors, featuring generic stunts and a lack of energy.

Internet (IMDB)10546 Netizens

Average .. 45%

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