Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is The Transporter - a cool driver guy who lives by a set of rules. Unfortunately he breaks those rules within 20 minutes of the movie starting by opening a body bag in the back of his car to find Lai (Qi Shu) - he allows her a drink and it looks like a love affair is about to start.

"Not as big chested as Vin Diesel, but what Jason Statham lacks in width he makes up for in mule kickage, and bitch slappage."

"All a load of old nonsense, however it is a very pleasant movie to watch. Lots of humor and no tattoos to speak of. A joy."

"Cool. Wizzy. Kerpow, and yet soft'n'sexy in the nice Nice sun. A South of France triumph of cartertainment."

"XXX meets Fast and the Furious, sautéed in a James Bond vinaigrette, roasted in a Columbo flame, with a pinch of Clouseau. Apart from that completely original."

"That girl-on-a-rope, going for a pee, bit, was my favorite moment in the whole movie - I have seen a very funny Candid Camera where they did this: they waited for the woman to start peeing and then they would pull her back in. Hysterical. Unfortunately this movie does not try such a comedy highlight, a wasted urinatunity."

"Lia is terribly screamy. It is such a shame our hero removes the duct tape so early on in the movie."

"One of the worst American accents in a while from a Brit, but on listening to the DVD it was supposed to be this bad. Hmm!"

All the baddies are killed, but it's a close run thing. Our hero has to survive rocket launchers on his home, exploding brief cases and shirt off wrestle-fu in brown syrup.

Lia, who initially turns on our hero, comes good in the end by shooting her Daddy just in the nick of time (he has been involved in an illegal China person smuggling racket).

Anything you can eat with one hand, as if driving a car fast down narrow streets hoping to gawd no kids are playing soccer down one of the narrow roads...

A brief moment of lip smacking, nothing slow motioney or mellowly back lit. One moment of on table top lust but this is cut quickly as it was presumably too uncomfortable for the actors.

Jason Statham is a cockney boy (London, England) see Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. The accent sounds a cross between 'American' and a southern England accent and apparently that was intended according to the DVD commentary. We like Jason so we believe him.

Bares comparison to XXX, but has much more wit and is more brightly lit. The setting (the South of France) is very warm and inviting. It is, most of the time, a very sexy picture to look at and it has a lively soundtrack which mostly makes up for the fact that, even with odds of 10 to 1 against, you never feel our hero will be duffed in.

If you want to learn to fight like this, just get some empty chip (crisp) packets, blow them up and practice the hits on them.