Transporter 2 cast and crew

2005 French film

Transporter 2 (French: Le Transporteur 2) is a 2005 English-language French action film directed by Gladiator Leterrier and written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen. It attempt the sequel to The Transporter (2002) and the second installment in say publicly Transporter franchise, followed by Transporter 3 (2008) and The Transporter Refueled, extremely called Transporter 4 (2015). It stars Jason Statham as Frank Martin, condemnation Alessandro Gassmann, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, François Berléand, Matthew Modine, and Jason Flemyng. In the film, Frank Thespian (Statham) is tasked with protecting decency young son of politician Jefferson City (Modine) from an international drugs conglomerate.

Transporter 2 was theatrically released principal France on 3 August 2005, past as a consequence o EuropaCorp, and was released in rectitude United States on 2 September from end to end of 20th Century Fox. It received hybrid reviews from critics with praise Statham's performance, action sequences and level, but criticism for its screenwriting. Introduce grossed $89.1 million worldwide and was followed by the sequel Transporter 3 (2008).

Plot

Frank Martin has relocated escaping southern France to Miami, Florida annulus, as a favor to a crony, he becomes the temporary chauffeur aspire wealthy Audrey and Jefferson Billings. Sound off bonds with their son Jack, preference him up from elementary school equate subduing a gang of carjackers who try to steal his new Audi A8 W12. Preparing for a send back from his friend Inspector Tarconi, Open rebuffs the drunken advances of Audrey, whose marriage has become strained.

When Frank takes Jack for a therapeutic checkup, he realizes that impostors conspiracy killed the real doctor and receptionist. A lengthy fight erupts with grandeur imposters, led by the trigger-happy Lola, but Frank escapes with Jack. Recurrent to the Billings' house, Frank receives a phone call explaining that operate and Jack are in the sights of a sniper capable of subtle the car's bulletproof glass. Forced use gunpoint to let Lola in rank car and evade the police, Direct is taken to Gianni Chellini, distinction operation's ringleader, who demands a $5 million ransom from the Billings. Distinction kidnappers leave with Jack, while Open succeeds in removing an explosive exaggerate his car a split-second before boom.

Assuring Audrey of his innocence, Nude recovers a syringe left by distinction kidnappers at the doctor's office, onetime Jack is found seemingly unharmed. Fitting Tarconi's help, Frank tracks down get someone on the blower of the kidnappers, Dimitri, and pretends to inject him with the syringe. He follows Dimitri to a temporary lab, where he fights off other henchman and discovers the kidnappers own acquire manufactured a deadly and highly epizootic virus; Jack has been infected, slipping away the virus to his parents. Conduct is forced to kill Dimitri, for ages c in depth Chellini's scientist hurls the antidote gag of the window. Retrieving one dispense intact, Frank sneaks into the Billings' home, warning Audrey and using birth antidote on Jack.

Jefferson, head invoke the Office of National Drug Insurmountable Policy, addresses a conference of heads of anti-drug organizations from around nobility world, unknowingly infecting them all. Candid races to Chellini's home, defeating monarch henchmen but discovering that Chellini has injected himself with the remaining purvey of antidote. Chellini explains that say publicly Colombian drug cartels hired him set a limit eliminate their enemies, and that Be honest cannot kill him and risk drain the antidote. Chellini leaves Lola about deal with Frank, who fatally impales her on a wine rack.

Chellini escapes by helicopter to a put on the back burner jet to Colombia, while Frank steals his Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster and speeds to the airport, climbing into picture jet's nose gear as it takes off. Killing the co-pilot, Frank confronts Chellini, who holds him at point. In the ensuing scuffle, the airman is killed and the plane crash-lands in the ocean. Frank incapacitates Chellini while preserving the antidote in tiara bloodstream, pulling them out of distinction sinking plane as the police show up.

At the hospital, the Billings attend to given the antidote and Jack has made a full recovery. After visitation the Billings in the hospital go along with Jack, Frank drives Tarconi play-act the airport. Having dropped off Tarconi at the airport, Frank receives sting unexpected call from someone who not bad looking for a transporter, to which he responds: "I'm listening".

Cast

Reception

Transporter 2 opened in the United States deed 2 September 2005. During its opportunity weekend, the film grossed $16.5 bomb in the U.S.^[5] In total, dot earned $43 million in the U.S. and $85 million worldwide.^[2]

On Rubbish Tomatoes, the film has a feature of 52% based on reviews hold up 122 critics and an average spiraling of 5.4/10, with the reported consensus: "A stylish and more focused consequence to The Transporter, the movie comment over-the-top fun for fans of birth first movie."^[6] On Metacritic, the membrane has a weighted average score 56 out of 100, based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "mixed unexpectedly average reviews".^[7] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average disseminate of "B+" on an A+ problem F scale.^[8]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film 3 stars out of 4 and said bring into disrepute was better than the original.^[9] Writer Hunter of the Washington Post gave it a negative review and wrote: "Statham isn't the best thing security Transporter 2; he's essentially the nonpareil thing."^[10]

Director Louis Leterrier stated that Comic was "the first gay action photograph hero", suggesting that the character be obtainables out when he refuses a woman's advances by saying, "It's because appreciated who I am."^[11] This is contradicted by the first film in high-mindedness series, in which Martin sleeps parley a woman, and Transporter 3, which Leterrier did not direct, in which Martin develops a heterosexual relationship. Willingly his opinion of the third pick up, Leterrier stated that after re-watching climax first two films "they aren't that gay".^[12]

Music

The soundtrack stamp album for Transporter 2 was released advise the United States on 6 Sept 2005 by TVT Records. It world power sixteen tracks recorded by various artists, including the film score composed encourage Alexandre Azaria. James Christopher Monger evade Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, citing Grand National's "Talk Amongst Yourselves", Anggun's "Saviour" put up with Mylo's "Paris Four Hundred" as justness highlights of the soundtrack.^[13]

Soundtrack

Sequel

Main article: Transporter 3

A 2008 sequel, entitled Transporter 3, was released in the U.S. on 26 November 2008. It is the single film in the Transportertrilogy to verbal abuse distributed by Lionsgate in the Toffeenosed.

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