Frank Martin (Ed Skrein) is the transporter, a professional driver for hire with a personal code. His dad (Ray Stevenson) is a newly retired British secret agent. Frank is hired by Anna (Loan Chabanol) and her three beautiful friends. He gets dragged into a bank heist revenge plot against the Russian mobster who fifteen years earlier had trafficked the girls into sex slavery. When he tries to cancel the deal, they reveal that they have kidnapped his father.The story is reasonable for a Transporter movie. There are car chases and action fights. It's a little weird that Anna hasn't aged in 15 years. It should be 5 years instead. The missing presence of Jason Statham hangs over this movie. With Statham being so busy and probably much more expansive, replacing him is an understandable move. Luc Besson tries to continue the franchise with newcomer Ed Skrein. He has the Euro-smirk down pat but he can't replace Statham. It's too big of an ask. Besson should have Statham do a cameo to hand off the baton. Ed Skrein could be a disciple or even his little brother. In that way, Statham could always return to the franchise like Vin Diesel returning to the Fast and Furious franchise. At this point, Statham could return only if this movie is forgotten like a bad hangover.

This is simply amazing how this movie ever made it out.The story line is complete crap. The action scenes and driving scenes have about 3 good shots (gave it 3 stars for it), but the rest are completely terrible and have about the same realistic feeling as watching an old Rambo movie, or one of the Matrix episodes (and not in a good way).Fight scenes are mostly directed so poorly that you would have expected a 12 year old to write them.Acting... What the hell is that? Everything seems so fake, and some are just off cue.Also, there are action parts, as a rolling Jeep drives and a person jump through the window, the next shot the jeep is stopped on the spot and the driver just rolls out.Please! DO NOT MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE LIKE THAT! Better yet, maybe do not make another movie. Period. This is just a really bad 80's version style action film, with modern shooting and writing level of a 4 year old.I think Axe cop has more depth then this movie...

This movie comes in second as one of the dumbest movies I've seen in the last year. The first one is the terrible remake of Point Break. Apparently Ed Skrein was on Game of thrones. I don't remember him on that amazing show so he must have been terrible. Either way he's no Jason Statham and based on his terrible wooden performance in this unnecessary garbage of a remake, he will hopefully remain a nobody.I have nothing nice to say about this crap. Frank Martin was a smart operator and highly intelligent when he was played by Statham. Skreins version acts retarded. Neither him, nor his father, with the same name, (what a dumb idea) ever seem to even care, no matter what happens to them. The movie drags on and on and the actionscenes are lame and seen a 100 times before. How many times do we have to watch the hero being chased by the local police though narrow streets in some European city? How many times do we have to believe that not only do the local police drive crappy little cars, but they're also complete inept drivers who crashes their cars first chance they get. And the father is kidnapped twice, because I guess the writers ran out of ideas. And don't even get me started on the product placement. Pretty much every scene either shows brands of alcohol, cars or smartphones and it's not enough to mention a certain vodka, no it has to be praised too in the scene. It made me really angry. On top of that this movie takes place in 2010. The leads all have iphone 5 or 5s. These models didn't even exist in 2010. That just shows you how retarded this pile of crap really is. It still amazes me when movies like this get greenlighted with as inept actors as Ed Skrein to replace as good an actor as Jason Statham. And yes Statham is a good actor. Watch the movie Hummingbird, if you don't believe me. Avoid this. Even if you're paid to see it. Avoid it. Watch the original three with Statham instead. The third one is terrible but practically a Shakespeare play, compared to this piece of crap.

Gorgeous scenery in the French Riviera, beautiful exotic women taking revenge on their pimp, and a Luc Besson story combine with an extended Audi product placement to make an entertaining action movie.Ed Skrein is a suitable replacement for Jason Statham and a believable enough action hero. Don't like the way he says everything in the same hoarse whisper though. Could vary his diction more. Loan Chabanol has got a future in movies - she is beautiful and acts well enough. There is a quite a range of exotic beautiful women in this movie but the message isn't exploitative or misogynistic. The ladies are the ones in charge here.Better than last couple of Bond movies.