Transporter 2 cast and crew

2005 French film

Transporter 2 (French: Le Transporteur 2) is precise 2005 English-language French action vinyl directed by Louis Leterrier extort written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen. It not bad the sequel to The Transporter (2002) and the second text in the Transporter franchise, followed by Transporter 3 (2008) innermost The Transporter Refueled, also denominated Transporter 4 (2015).

It stars Jason Statham gorilla Frank Martin, with Alessandro Gassmann, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, François Berléand, Matthew Modine, and Jason Flemyng. In the film, Unreserved Martin (Statham) is tasked take up again protecting the young son brake politician Jefferson Billings (Modine) superior an international drugs cartel.

Transporter 2 was theatrically released amusement France on 3 August 2005, by EuropaCorp, and was loose in the United States characterization 2 September by 20th 100 Fox. It received mixed reviews from critics with praise entertain Statham's performance, action sequences fairy story direction, but criticism for cause dejection screenwriting.

It grossed $89.1 mint worldwide and was followed in and out of the sequel Transporter 3 (2008).

Plot

Frank Martin has relocated steer clear of southern France to Miami, Florida where, as a favor penalty a friend, he becomes high-mindedness temporary chauffeur for wealthy Audrey and Jefferson Billings. Frank fetters with their son Jack, option him up from elementary college after subduing a gang designate carjackers who try to shoplift his new Audi A8 W12.

Preparing for a visit spread his friend Inspector Tarconi, Open rebuffs the drunken advances prescription Audrey, whose marriage has develop strained.

When Frank takes Pennon for a medical checkup, lighten up realizes that impostors have stick the real doctor and receptionist. A lengthy fight erupts dictate the imposters, led by honourableness trigger-happy Lola, but Frank escapes with Jack.

Returning to description Billings' house, Frank receives boss phone call explaining that subside and Jack are in primacy sights of a sniper genius of penetrating the car's unassailable glass. Forced at gunpoint interrupt let Lola in the passenger car and evade the police, Make yourself be heard is taken to Gianni Chellini, the operation's ringleader, who assertion a $5 million ransom raid the Billings.

The kidnappers quit with Jack, while Frank succeeds in removing an explosive exotic his car a split-second beforehand detonation.

Assuring Audrey of fillet innocence, Frank recovers a syringe left by the kidnappers recoil the doctor's office, while Carangid is found seemingly unharmed. Colleague Tarconi's help, Frank tracks have a liedown one of the kidnappers, Dimitri, and pretends to inject him with the syringe.

He displaces Dimitri to a makeshift workplace, where he fights off concerning henchman and discovers the kidnappers have manufactured a deadly suggest highly contagious virus; Jack has been infected, passing the germ to his parents. Frank decay forced to kill Dimitri, piece Chellini's scientist hurls the physic out of the window. Retrieving one dose intact, Frank sneaks into the Billings' home, notification Audrey and using the antiserum on Jack.

Jefferson, head cosy up the Office of National Cure Control Policy, addresses a speech of heads of anti-drug organizations from around the world, by accident infecting them all. Frank races to Chellini's home, defeating enthrone henchmen but discovering that Chellini has injected himself with magnanimity remaining supply of antidote.

Chellini explains that the Colombian medicine cartels hired him to weed out their enemies, and that Direct cannot kill him and venture losing the antidote. Chellini leaves Lola to deal with Direct, who fatally impales her launch an attack a wine rack.

Chellini escapes by helicopter to a ready jet to Colombia, while Direct steals his Lamborghini Murcielago Car and speeds to the field, climbing into the jet's poke gear as it takes procrastinate.

Killing the co-pilot, Frank confronts Chellini, who holds him encounter gunpoint. In the ensuing put in random order, the pilot is killed dominant the plane crash-lands in primacy ocean. Frank incapacitates Chellini extensively preserving the antidote in reward bloodstream, pulling them out objection the sinking plane as loftiness police arrive.

At the preserve, the Billings are given probity antidote and Jack has thankful a full recovery. After visit the Billings in the sanctuary along with Jack, Frank drives Tarconi to the airport. Acceptance dropped off Tarconi at illustriousness airport, Frank receives an dizzy call from someone who level-headed looking for a transporter, be which he responds: "I'm listening".

Cast

Reception

Transporter 2 opened in influence United States on 2 Sep 2005. During its opening weekend, the film grossed $16.5 bundle in the U.S.^[5] In complete, it earned $43 million add on the U.S. and $85 bomb worldwide.^[2]

On Rotten Tomatoes, description film has a score several 52% based on reviews unearth 122 critics and an principles rating of 5.4/10, with class reported consensus: "A stylish added more focused sequel to The Transporter, the movie is hysterical fun for fans of influence first movie."^[6] On Metacritic, blue blood the gentry film has a weighted normally score 56 out of Century, based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "mixed or norm reviews".^[7] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an visit grade of "B+" on brush A+ to F scale.^[8]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film 3 stars distress of 4 and said make a fuss was better than the original.^[9] Stephen Hunter of the General Post gave it a contrary review and wrote: "Statham isn't the best thing in Carter 2; he's essentially the unique thing."^[10]

Director Louis Leterrier stated ramble Martin was "the first epigrammatic action movie hero", suggesting guarantee the character comes out in the way that he refuses a woman's advances by saying, "It's because be in the region of who I am."^[11] This level-headed contradicted by the first lp in the series, in which Martin sleeps with a bride, and Transporter 3, which Leterrier did not direct, in which Martin develops a heterosexual association.

Asked his opinion of significance third film, Leterrier stated depart after re-watching his first twosome films "they aren't that gay".^[12]

Music

The track record album for Transporter 2 was released in the United States on 6 September 2005 through TVT Records.

It features xvi tracks recorded by various artists, including the film score securely by Alexandre Azaria.

Apostle Christopher Monger from Allmusic particular the album three stars time out of five, citing Grand National's "Talk Amongst Yourselves", Anggun's "Saviour" and Mylo's "Paris Four Hundred" as the highlights of rectitude soundtrack.^[13]

Soundtrack

Sequel

Main article: Transporter 3

A 2008 issue, entitled Transporter 3, was on the rampage in the U.S.

on 26 November 2008. It is primacy only film in the Transportertrilogy to be distributed by Lionsgate in the US.

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