The Transporter Collection
by Corey Yuen, Louis Leterrier
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Actor: Amber Valletta, Jason Statham, Kate Nauta, Matt Schulze, Qi ShuDirector: Corey Yuen, Louis Leterrier
Brand: Fox
Producer: Alfred Lot
Producer: David Lai
Producer: Elayne Keratsis
Producer: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson
Writer: Robert Mark Kamen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 177 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of The Transporter Collection
DVD Review: How is this a bargain?
Summary: 3 Stars
I absolutely loved Transporter, and was pleasantly surprised when Transporter 2 turned out to be an even better movie.
But the current asking price for the package is more than the current asking price for the two individual DVDs combined.
What justifies this? Is there some value added? Are there more entertaining "special features" in the boxed set? We'll never know, because Amazon doesn't have anything to say about the set. It's just dropped on us like bovine excrement on a flat rock. Which usually speaks for itself.
Back to the Transporter series and Jason Statham:
Statham was excellent in this two-movie series, and the character was extremely appealing. One wonders why they don't milk this for at least one more film, since it has built-in box office appeal.
However, someone has spent a TON of money bankrolling vehicles for Statham. He's a so-so action star, his appeal as "good guy" exceeds his ability to play a "not so good guy": his character in "Crank" was so desultory that that we didn't care whether he lived or died. (Good thing: he died.) He was okay in "WAR", but Jet Li carried him ... Li was the star, Statham was the supporting actor; his character had no fire.
Heck in, "In The Name Of The King", Statham was unconvincing and supported by washed-up aging actors Burt Reynolds and John Rhys Davies. Burt was wooden, Rhys Davies was an example of how awful it is when the Botox wears off, and Statham with his salon-maintained trademark two-day-old beard was, at best, an anachronistic Farmer. And that is one of the best movies of the many he has starred in for the past 3 years (with the possible exception of "The Bank Job", which is so exceptionally good that it actually enjoyed a feature-run in the theaters rather than going directly to DVD.)
If his career continues to be so mis-managed, Statham is likely to end up like Steven Seagal, Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme. YOu know them; the make a movie with their buddys every year or two, it goes directly to DVD, and they make enough from Hollywood Video rentals to make house payments and an annual trip to the Bahamas. They just don't care anymore, because they've had a couple of blockbusters and it's all just a paycheck any more.
(John Wayne did the same thing, but that was before "go directly to DVD". And he's dead: a very effective marketing device which is probably not attractive to Statham.)
So my question is, if someone is willing to back Statham's career to the point of producing some very expensive movies, why can't they spend a few more bucks to get good writers and good directors and good editors? The production values (with the exception of the editing) are excellent in all of the films, but the movies produced seem to be without oversight.
Just a few changes in the scripts and editing would have resulted in GOOD movies rather than just ACCEPTABLE movies. Are the directors unwilling to put in the cutting room overtime needed to make a so-so movie better?
Unfortunately, if Statham makes another movie as good as the Transporter duo, it will probably be badly marketed. Again.
Too bad. Statham has proven that he is capable of starring in good movies (eg: Transporter 1 & 2.) But he has typically been denied his real big break ... a producer who cares enough to make the very best.
Oh, and Amazon? Do the math, okay?
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