The New Road

Transporter 2

After the Hurricanes loss and some time paying my due to the Ruby community writing a gratis article on modular APIs I figured it was time to see the Transporter 2. I really liked the first movie which was low budget and quirky. So this was a must see for me.

This movie uses the well worn "Commanndo" plot which is simply summarized as; Take my kid... you all die. Amazingly there was actually less from the kid in this movie than in the original Commando. Setup stuff in the beginning with the hero playing games with the kid, which traditionally would have been used as a secret communication mechanism, was basically ignored. What little plot there is was just a setup for action and fight scenes almost too numerous to count.

The movie was set in Miami which was both fun and nerve racking for me. As always you should never follow the characters as they are driving if you know the city since they will never take an anywhere near sane route around the city. In this case the drive between brickel and star island included key biscayne, south beach and several other scenic spots. I came away thinking that the city looks really, really nice.

The only annoying part was the addition of the french policeman. He was shown too rarely to be important and his presence was the only slight connection back to the original movie and could have easily been dropped. Of course, they would have had to establish another inside character, but that's ok. Basically the buddy link here is so slight that this hardly ranks as a buddy film. More like a "guy I once met" film, or a "distant cousin four times removed" film.

I definitely enjoyed the movie. I turned my brain off, sat back and enjoyed the goofy late-summer entertainment. It was a great meaningless distraction. There was a setup for the next movie that was as gratuitous as it was ham-handed at the end. I certainly hope they make another. I can always use a dose of greased up kung fu fun.