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Title:
Transporter 2
Region:
One
Genre:
Action
Stars:
Jason Statham, Kate Nauta, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Matthew Modine,
Jason Flemyng, Francois Bereland, Keith David, Hunter Clary, and Shannon Briggs
Writer:
Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
Based
On Characters Created By: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
Director:
Louis Leterrier
Feature
length: 87 minutes
Extras:
Deleted/Extended Scenes, Making Of Featurette, Music Featurette
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and Spanish and French Language Dolby
Surround Sound
Subtitles:
English Closed Captions and English and Spanish Language Subtitles
Packaging:
Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 24
Sound:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Surround Sound
Year
of Theatrical Release: 2005/DVD Release: 2006
Theatrical
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Home
Video Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: PG-13
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
“The
Transporter 2” follows Frank Martin (Jason Statham) as he attempts to save a
young boy and his parents who are the target of a fiendish plot to release a
genetically engineered virus that would last for exactly 24 hours and wipe out a
consortium meeting on the “war on drugs.” The film is a straightforward
action picture with over-the-top and mostly bloodless violence. With a film like
this, it helps to have a sense of humor because otherwise one might just be
turned off by the unbelievable and improbable action. In one scene Statham’s
character actually dodges bullets! This is done thankfully without the use of
bullet time, but it is so far fetched that one can’t help but laugh out loud
and wonder what will happen next. This could be a good or a bad thing depending
upon how you approach it. The standout in the film is Kate
Nauta, who plays the femme fatale who performs her most dangerous acts wearing
little more than lingerie. If you have seen any of Luc Besson’s films
regardless of whether or not he directed or produced it, it is pretty simple to
see the pattern of the type of female characters Besson seems to like creating
regardless if they are good, bad, or just lost. Still watching “The
Transporter 2” had me wishing Besson would direct a new feature film instead
of just producing and writing scripts. Besson can hire whoever he likes to
imitate him, but he cannot be equaled in the quality of the work he has
displayed beautifully with films like “Leon” and “The Fifth Element.”
Francois Bereland reprises his role from the original, but his relationship with
Statham’s character is now far less formal. In many ways “Transporter 2”
is different from the original film and while somewhat better in terms of pure
action, I kind of miss the character’s more mercenary aspects that caught my
attention with the original.
Twentieth
Century Fox Home Entertainment’s DVD edition of “Transporter 2” features a
terrific anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) aspect ratio presentation that can be
beautifully upconverted to near HD picture quality using a DVD player with
upconverting features and HDMI along with an HDMI compliant television. A
well-rounded English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Soundtrack is encoded onto the
DVD as well as a French and a Spanish Language Dolby Surround Soundtrack too.
English Closed Captions for the hearing impaired and English and Spanish
Language Subtitles are also encoded as options. There is also a full screen
(1.33:1) version of the film on the other side of the disc along with a making
of featurette and a music featurette. A reel of 14 letterboxed extended and
deleted scenes (20:37) is included on the widescreen side. The main menu is
animated while the subsequent interactive menus are all standard still frames
and all are easy to navigate. “Transporter 2” is available now on both DVD
and UMD for PSP at retailers on and offline courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
Home Entertainment.
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Copyright 2006 By Mark A. Rivera
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