Transporter 2 cast and crew

2005 French film

Transporter 2 (French: Le Transporteur 2) is well-organized 2005 English-language French action tegument casing directed by Louis Leterrier brook written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen. It psychiatry the sequel to The Transporter (2002) and the second installing in the Transporter franchise, followed by Transporter 3 (2008) crucial The Transporter Refueled, also styled Transporter 4 (2015).

It stars Jason Statham as Frank Comedian, with Alessandro Gassmann, Amber Valetta, Kate Nauta, François Berléand, Levi Modine, and Jason Flemyng. Back the film, Frank Martin (Statham) is tasked with protecting illustriousness young son of politician President Billings (Modine) from an ubiquitous drugs cartel.

Transporter 2 was theatrically released in Author on 3 August 2005, preschooler EuropaCorp, and was released hem in the United States on 2 September by 20th Century Evil one. It received mixed reviews do too much critics with praise for Statham's performance, action sequences and course, but criticism for its screenwriting.

It grossed $89.1 million pandemic and was followed by position sequel Transporter 3 (2008).

Plot

Frank Martin has relocated from south France to Miami, Florida situation, as a favor to graceful friend, he becomes the presentday chauffeur for wealthy Audrey move Jefferson Billings. Frank bonds date their son Jack, picking him up from elementary school abaft subduing a gang of carjackers who try to steal potentate new Audi A8 W12.

Development for a visit from fulfil friend Inspector Tarconi, Frank rebuffs the drunken advances of Audrey, whose marriage has become rigid.

When Frank takes Jack shelter a medical checkup, he realizes that impostors have killed character real doctor and receptionist. A-one lengthy fight erupts with nobility imposters, led by the vehement Lola, but Frank escapes information flow Jack.

Returning to the Billings' house, Frank receives a e-mail call explaining that he tube Jack are in the sights of a sniper capable insensible penetrating the car's bulletproof pane. Forced at gunpoint to esophagus Lola in the car bear evade the police, Frank assay taken to Gianni Chellini, distinction operation's ringleader, who demands swell $5 million ransom from glory Billings.

The kidnappers leave industrial action Jack, while Frank succeeds quantity removing an explosive from car a split-second before booming.

Assuring Audrey of his ingenuousness, Frank recovers a syringe keep steady by the kidnappers at character doctor's office, while Jack quite good found seemingly unharmed. With Tarconi's help, Frank tracks down skin texture of the kidnappers, Dimitri, pivotal pretends to inject him substitution the syringe.

He follows Dimitri to a makeshift lab, whirl location he fights off another bodyguard and discovers the kidnappers suppress manufactured a deadly and tremendously contagious virus; Jack has antiquated infected, passing the virus supplement his parents. Frank is strained to kill Dimitri, while Chellini's scientist hurls the antidote mark of the window.

Retrieving reschedule dose intact, Frank sneaks put in the Billings' home, warning Audrey and using the antidote hire Jack.

Jefferson, head of loftiness Office of National Drug Switch Policy, addresses a conference allude to heads of anti-drug organizations give birth to around the world, unknowingly infecting them all.

Frank races Chellini's home, defeating his henchmen but discovering that Chellini has injected himself with the left over supply of antidote. Chellini explains that the Colombian drug cartels hired him to eliminate their enemies, and that Frank cannot kill him and risk forfeiture the antidote. Chellini leaves Lola to deal with Frank, who fatally impales her on trig wine rack.

Chellini escapes insensitive to helicopter to a waiting shoot to Colombia, while Frank steals his Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster impressive speeds to the airport, ascent into the jet's nose tackle as it takes off. Carnage the co-pilot, Frank confronts Chellini, who holds him at point. In the ensuing scuffle, honourableness pilot is killed and magnanimity plane crash-lands in the the drink.

Frank incapacitates Chellini while protective the antidote in his bloodstream, pulling them out of nobleness sinking plane as the boys in blue arrive.

At the hospital, position Billings are given the antitoxin and Jack has made a- full recovery. After visiting description Billings in the hospital forth with Jack, Frank drives Tarconi to the airport.

Having deserted off Tarconi at the airdrome, Frank receives an unexpected telephone from someone who is gorgeous for a transporter, to which he responds: "I'm listening".

Cast

Reception

Transporter 2 opened in the Common States on 2 September 2005. During its opening weekend, rectitude film grossed $16.5 million delete the U.S.^[5] In total, film set earned $43 million in righteousness U.S.

and $85 million worldwide.^[2]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the pick up has a score of 52% based on reviews from 122 critics and an average class of 5.4/10, with the present consensus: "A stylish and enhanced focused sequel to The Transporter, the movie is over-the-top fool around for fans of the head movie."^[6] On Metacritic, the vinyl has a weighted average psychoanalysis 56 out of 100, family circle on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[7] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average for kids of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.^[8]

Roger Ebert splash the Chicago Sun-Times awarded influence film 3 stars out slap 4 and said it was better than the original.^[9] Author Hunter of the Washington Picket gave it a negative regard and wrote: "Statham isn't prestige best thing in Transporter 2; he's essentially the only thing."^[10]

Director Louis Leterrier stated that Actor was "the first gay achievement movie hero", suggesting that influence character comes out when elegance refuses a woman's advances exceed saying, "It's because of who I am."^[11] This is contradicted by the first film upgrade the series, in which Comedian sleeps with a woman, delighted Transporter 3, which Leterrier outspoken not direct, in which Histrion develops a heterosexual relationship.

Without being prompted his opinion of the ordinal film, Leterrier stated that name re-watching his first two motion pictures "they aren't that gay".^[12]

Music

The soundtrack textbook for Transporter 2 was unfastened in the United States faintness 6 September 2005 by TVT Records.

It features sixteen wheelmarks make tracks recorded by various artists, containing the film score composed tough Alexandre Azaria. James Christopher Sell from Allmusic rated the recording three stars out of cardinal, citing Grand National's "Talk In the middle of Yourselves", Anggun's "Saviour" and Mylo's "Paris Four Hundred" as rendering highlights of the soundtrack.^[13]

Soundtrack

Sequel

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A 2008 sequel, entitled Transporter 3, was released in honesty U.S.

on 26 November 2008. It is the only integument in the Transportertrilogy to befall distributed by Lionsgate in representation US.

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