2008 · action · thriller · crime
Transporter 3
Directed by Olivier Megaton1h 44m2008
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
Our read: Transporter 3 (2008) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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