I believe the series in Japan is following French or German screening series so naturally we started with number 3 of the first series. Its baffling starting there (I could sort understood starting at 2 and then doing 1) so its three-way "who's the dumbest" contest between the good guys, the bad guys and the local suppliers of this show. Its called the General's Daughter and the general is clearly an idiot who get involved with major organised crime figures and even though his organisation is compromised put his trump-card data on one USB- the transporter doesn't think anything is wrong with that strategy- surely a hundred places in the only sane way- he doesn't even point to the bad guys that he's copied it so let her go so we have incentive to not release the data- continued living. Then you have compare that idiocy with the bad guy who go without gun to get the girl and don't cover exits or take all the elevators. Then they go with lots of guns and mainly don't know how to use them.

I loved this show and was sorry to find out it was over a couple of years ago. Chris Vance is great and easy on the eyes. The car chases are exciting and never a boring moment. The series ended badly and we never had a real closing. I wish they would make more of these. I liked seeing the countryside in Europe and all of the excellent fight scenes. It was unique and I found it to be an awesome ride!!! I don't understand some of the bad reviews unless it was just the inability to accept the changes from the movie.Bring it back and let us have a little something different to watch and a bit of excitement to boot!!!

When I first started watching this (about a month ago), I was only mildly interested. I enjoyed the chase scenes and the humor between Dieter and Frank. The action was alright bordering on ridiculous. But I got stuck to this show nonetheless. I watched the entire season. Then, I came to season two. I can't even describe my hatred, my disappointment for season 2. Everything that made season 1 so great was instantly dropped. It's almost as if the producers said, Since we're big now and picked up international attention, we have to change the entire show and make it worse. I would definitely recommend watching season 1. Just be weary of season 2. It's a let down.

If you are not looking for a deep storyline and just want honest-to-goodness and shamelessly shallow action, you'll like this series. It does not apologize for being "standard", "cliché", or any other derogatory epithet thrown at it. It's just a straight-up, old-fashioned "good guy kicks ass and gets the girl" kind of show. And that's perfectly OK with me. At the end of a day working hard and studying hard or even on a lazy day-off, I don't necessarily want deep plots and Shakespearean epics, I just want brain-dead, no-holds-barred entertainment of the action and suspense genre. And the transporter delivers (pun very much intended)! Heck, just the hot babes and bad girls are well worth the price of admission! :-)