Huh. The guy who plays the transporter is undeniably cool. He kicks all kinds of ass, drives a sweet car, all of what made the first movie somewhat decent. In this one, though, they decided that they needed to take it up a few notches, so they threw out those cumbersome “laws of nature” and decided to forgo “reason” and “plot” and instead, made one of the most ridiculous movies I’ve seen in a while.
What was his car made out of? Unobtainium? It smashes through cement walls, flys through the air, spins and twirls with the greatest of ease… and not a single scratch. Yet bizarrely, he seems worried about a little kid running his hand along the side of it.
And how did they get the antidote to the entire city? Because that’s probably the extent of the infection. Everytime somebody who is infected with the virus breathes, it supposedly infects everybody else around them. Well, what about the hospital people? What about their patients? What about the cops and the bystanders?
Also, what a waste of a bad guy. They set him up to be some sort of complete badass, with his anime-inspired kendo fight, but he hardly puts any effort into actually fighting the transporter at the end.
The fight with the hose was pretty cool though. I’ll give it that. Anybody else see this?
The softest crash-landing into water by an airplane EVAH!! We see it in a screaming, tumbling dive, with the water rushing up with horrifying speed, and what happens? It hits the water with feather-light force, leaving the front of the aircraft undamaged, and nothing more dire than an in-rush of water for the occupants to deal with.
The worst insult to viewers inflicted by Hollywood in a long time.
Yeah, that was confusing. So was how quicly the boats were there. Where exactly did they land? I would have thought they’d be quite a bit further out from land by then. It’s like they knew exactly where it would come down and they were just hanging out until the transporter guy came up.
I loved it. A definite own when it hits DVD. I know that everyone is complaining about plotholes and the movie’s ignorance of the laws of physics, but those are the things I loved about it. Transporter 2 was a tongue-in-cheek B-movie action flick and I think that’s just what everyone involved with it intended it to be. I mean, do you really think that they didn’t know that the audience was going to laugh when the transporter flipped his car upside down to snag the bomb off the bottom with the hook on the end of the crane? And the plot served little purpose but to set up the action, which is pretty much the only thing worth seeing the movie for.
Okay, some people in Hollywood are really stupid and I suppose the producers could’ve meant for T2 to be taken seriously, but I think that the movie on the whole was supposed to be taken as a lark.
To Asylum: that is true, but there were also some poor choice regarding the bad guys. There was never any feeling like transporter man was ever in any trouble. He dispatched every single bad guy with ease, with the one possible exception of the big dreadlocked guy. The bad girl fight started off okay, but then suddenly it was over, like they had planned out some big fight scene originally but realized the movie was too long and cut it off after about 30 seconds. Same goes for the main bad guy. What was the point of that first kendo scene if the guy doesn’t even try to fight at the end?
With a couple of exceptions, I’m a huge fan of Besson’s work. And, although he was only the writer/producer on this one, it was still dreck. This was not a tongue-in-cheek, sly attempt at a not-to-be-taken-seriously-movie. Had it been, it wouldn’t have had the embarrassed, bumblingly bad edit hack job in the airplane crash scene. The editors were clearly trying to make the best they could with the crap that the director shot for them.
I thought it was a real waste. I’d rather have the hero be smart and realistic rather than just out of a comic book.
When he spotted the bomb on the bottom of the car, I thought he’d make sure to scrape it off on a curb right away, which would be both smart and realistic, but that bit with the flip and the crane was just insulting. I think that’s one of the things that made The Bourne Identity work. The director’s commentary points out that they sat around thinking of smart things for Jason to do, like use the fire exit map to get through the government building.
That whole CGI sequence with the plane was horribly, horribly bad. I can do better. Heck, I’d be tempted to do it for free just so that bad animation could never again be seen by human eyes.
Did they get the janitor to do it, 'cause they were so pressed for funding and time?