The Transporter (2002)

Directed by

Corey Yuen, Louis Leterrier

Genre

action film, crime thriller film

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 5,872 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A professional driver named Frank Martin lives by strict rules for his jobs. He breaks one of those rules when he finds a human trafficking victim in the back of his car.

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What happens

The Transporter (French: Le Transporteur) is a 2002 English-language French action film directed by Louis Leterrier and Corey Yuen from a screenplay by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It is the first installment in the Transporter film series and stars Jason Statham in the title role, alongside Shu Qi, François Berléand, and Matt Schulze. In the film, Frank Martin, a British mercenary driver living in France, finds himself involved in a human trafficking plot. The Transporter premiered at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles on October 2, 2002, and was first theatrically released in the United States on October 11, 2002, by 20th Century Fox, in France on 23 October by EuropaCorp, and in the UK on January 17, 2003. It received mixed reviews from critics with praise for its action sequences and Statham's performance. It grossed $43.9 million worldwide and was followed by a sequel, Transporter 2, in 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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