28 January 2009

I am 3, Transporter 3. (A caricature remix of Bond and Bourne)


First there was Bond, then came the Bourne(my personal favorite) which was later followed by our own "Transporter". The first movie as quite entertaining because of the normality of the plot as it was about a person who delivers,that to without any fuss. But from the second edition and onwards he idea started to lose its edge because of its superficial characterization of the protagonist and one line plots. Andthis is the point where Frank Martin (aka The Transporter)is different from James Bond as well as Jason Bourne. Therefore, transporter series comes out as a caricatured version of other similar movie series.
Now coming back to the current movie "Transporter 3", all one gets is an action flick with some cool martial art moves and some adrenaline pumping "car stunts" but nowhere the movie lift itself from being a mediocre action movie. Basically the problem with the movie is that it never answers some vital questions such as:
  1. Who is this Frank Miller? What is his past?
  2. Why he is doing all this transportation stuff, especially when he is being portrayed as a good soul?
  3. Why the hell some odd goons trust him for some small package delivery especially when they seem very much capable and resourceful by themselves and given the past track record of Frank where he had proved himself as a "Black knight in shining Armour"?
  4. Above all, how many times one can actually convert a single line plot into a full-length movie?
Our Frank Miller tries to copy the elegance, style and resourcefulness of Bond and hand-to-hand combat kills and doggedness of Bourne so as to better both. However, he falls short of both of these characters. So in the end we are left with a B grade movie that has been publicized as well as packaged like an A grade movie.

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