Movie Review: The Transporter: Refueled

I like to play Role Playing games with my brothers. We take on different roles within the group but everyone does their own stuff. This is true for anything is life, everyone has their own role or job that they are good at, but what happens if your role leads you down a dark path? The Transporter: Refueled is based on a guy who has the role of transportation in the criminal world. I’ve heard that this is a reboot from a movie that first came out in 2002 but this is technically a sequel to the first three movies. But anyways, I hope you enjoy the review.

The movie starts off in a flashback to 1995 in front of a club in the French Rivera with a group of girls (prostitutes) out front and some guys (pimps) looking over them, when some cars pull up. A man walks out of one off the vehicles and one of the pimps says that they're working. The man from the car, Arkady Karasov (played by Radivoje Bukvic) says so are we, and two other men get out and start shooting the pimps, killing all the men but one who runs away. Karasov whistles and lots of women get out of the vans and one of them named Anna (played by Loan Chabanol) stands in front of Karasov, petrified by what she just saw. Karasov notices one of the prostitutes are still there, and offers to hire her. Maissa (played by Noémie Lenoir) accepts the offering and rides off with him, leaving Anna in front of the club on the verge of tears.

The movie then moves to 15 years later (2010) where Anna is sitting in a fancy restaurant when she gets a phone call and says that the plan is in motion. Frank Martin (played by Ed Skrein) notices six guys trying to steal his car. Frank opens the front doors with his phone, knocking two guys to the ground, alerting them all to him. One of them tells Frank to give him the keys, but Frank refuses. The six men then proceed to attack Frank until he gives up the keys, but Frank wins, noticing that he's going to be late. As he drives off, he looks at his watch and notices that he's late. Frank arrives at his dad's house as his dad, Martin Sr. (played by Ray Stevenson) walks out. Martin Sr. gets in the car saying that Franks late, then they drive off.

As the movie progresses, the fighting scenes get just a little more repetitive, but they still had lots of action in them. The plot changes slightly every now and then, but stays relatively the same throughout the movie. Everything was great and very well done in their part, but I would have maybe wanted more realism in the movie, even though they probably didn't intend for the movie to be too realistic.

I think the acting was good for what the actors had to work with. The plot and script being what it is didn't give them too much they could work with. But overall I thought the acting was good, even though they probably had a tough time doing so.

I would rate this movie 6.7/10 for giving some decent action scenes and good acting but not quite as good plot and scripting.

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