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(Ray Stevenson, enjoying himself), who winds up the hostage in a kidnapping plot. “Soon” turns out to be much sooner than he thinks: Skrein’s more impudent take on the character is meant to stand in boyish contrast to papa-partner Frank Martin Sr. “Pretty soon, it’ll drive itself, and they won’t need guys like me.” “Technology moves so quickly,” Skrein’s Frank says of his smartphone-assisted Audi, the car captured from every angle in fetishistic detail during the opening credits. This gets a tad confusing, considering that The Transporter: Refueled – despite being the start of a planned prequel trilogy, and being set in 2010 – prominently features modern Apple products and tablet devices. Stepping into Frank’s suit and tie is Ed Skrein, a younger actor for a younger version of the character. The joke for Frank, Statham, and the audience, was that they were all better than this. His dry confidence made absurd fistfights and shootouts an annoyance akin to bad traffic.

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Living by a three-part code of Transportation (guidelines that are broken more often than the joints of Frank’s enemies), Martin’s high-octane daredevilry was always tempered by Statham’s cucumber cool. More memorable for his accoutrement than anything else, Frank Martin was better as a vehicle for Statham’s charisma than a character in his own right. There’s a Statham-shaped hole under the hood of The Transporter: Refueled.

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Eastern European gangsters, human trafficking schemes, chases that transition from French cobblestones to seafaring yachts: they’re all here, fitted and tailored to the same model of character and action movie Statham is better off lampooning these days than revisiting. The remainder of this fourth entry comprises the same hodgepodge of Besson plot points that the Taken movies once borrowed, and have now returned to their original owner. This is the extent of the personality to be found in the “Transporter” series, and its hero, Frank Martin. It stars a rakish Brit who dresses like a limo driver, rolls in a German car, and fights as a wuxia/MMA hybrid. Seven years distanced from the last “Transporter” movie, Refueled struggles to hit established marks. When Besson and company happen upon a winning formula, they seemingly can’t stop themselves from driving it into the ground.

What those two have in common is that they’re neither adaptations, nor sequels to other Europacorp movies, which tend to get dumber and less fun in reiteration or translation.

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That same year, Besson unleashed the Taken franchise on the world, a once-promising series that’s become the most profitable alignment of Franco-American interests since the War of Independence.īesson’s Europacorp production company, in addition to funding Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial career, has made a number of legitimately enjoyable dumb-fun action movies, including the daffy Lockout, and last year’s megahit Lucy.

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Though the franchise has been kept on dialysis via a TV series for a couple years, this is the first “Transporter” property to be produced by series-creator Luc Besson since 2008’s Transporter 3. Returning sans Statham, avec everything else, The Transporter: Refueled makes a poor case for rescuing this series from the scrapheap. As a whole, however, the three movies were a shoddy refurbishing of American gearhead actioneers into Euro-thriller jalopies. The first one had a fight scene where Jason Statham whirled around poles and through grease like a lethal Magic Mike the second featured cinema’s first aerial undercarriage bomb disposal the third contrived a reason to always keep Statham within 75 feet of the franchise’s real star, an Audi automobile. Stripped and chopped for parts, the Transporter trilogy could be reassembled into a single solid (and undoubtedly short) action movie.