2005 · action · thriller · crime
Transporter 2
Directed by Louis Leterrier1h 28m2005
Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.
Our read: Transporter 2 (2005) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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