12 Movies You Constantly Have To Defend Loving

2. Transporter 3

Now that there€™s an uninteresting reboot doing the rounds, viewers can see for themselves what made the original movies so special. Here€™s a hint: when you combine Corey Yuen€™s fight choreography with Jason Statham€™s badass charisma, you€™re really on to something. Sniffed at by critics such as James Berardinelli, who called it, €œthe most frustrating entry in a series that has never set the bar terribly high€, Transporter 3 has a shot at being the most demented entry in the franchise. Wearing a bracelet that will explode if he gets more than 75 feet from his car, Statham has to travel across Europe to deliver a package, and in the process gets involved in the usual martial arts standoffs and car chases. The standout is the climactic sequence, shot in real time without models and CGI, where Statham drives his car onto a moving train in order to catch Robert Knepper, who seems to be having a whale of a time as the movie€™s villain.
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'