Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is the best in the business. An ex-Special Forces operative who hires himself out as a mercenary "transporter." If you have goods (animal, vegatable or mineral) and they absolutely positely need to reach their destination, no questions asked - you don't call Federeal Express, you call the Transporter. Frank has relocated from the French Mediterranean to Miami, Florida, where as a favor to a friend, he is offering his services to the wealthy Billings family.

His present job, that of driving 6 year old Jack Billing to and from school was to be a cake walk, but when the lad is kidnapped all hell breaks loose. It seems that retrieving young Jack will require every battle-tested combat skill Frank has at his disposal. For the kidnappers plan involves loosing a virus capable of killing anyone or anything it come in contact with.

The movie is slick, stylish and it is so far over the top that it is almost too easy to suspend disbelief and enjoy the movie for what it is: pure mindless entertainment. The fact that the plot is so implausible and far-fetched is what actually makes the movie work. Had the movie grounded itself too much in reality it would have undoubtedly failed miserably. People who are prone to pick movies apart with their "yeah rights" and "like that would ever happens" are just going to cheat themselves out of a good time at the theater. The plot is simple, and follows in the footsteps of the original to a T. Introduce the characters from Frank to the bad guys, introduce the evil plot that Frank must thwart and pit the two sides against each other with plenty of explosions, car chases, and fight sequences. It never aspires to anything more than big, loud summer popcorn fare and as a result it delivers the goods - if you'll pardon the pun.

I like Jason Statham, he just has that cool calm exterior that means business and that fits the role of Frank Martin particularly well. It was his charisma that sold the first movie and it is charisma that makes the sequel just as fun. They have developed a kind of Jackie Chan-like fighting style for the character of Frank as he uses every single object near him as a weapon in all the fight sequences. I always liked this style as it adds a sense of humor to the prosceedings. Granted the rest of the cast was a little weak and I am still trying to figure out the character Kate Nauta played - she comes off almost felt like a comic book female villain come to life or a female anti-James Bond Girl. But the movie was pure and simply Jason Statham's and he does a good job at the cool unflappable transporter who never fails to take care of business.

A lot of films of this nature use current events to give their villains a sense of reality and Transporter 2 is no different. It's as if the threat of real terrorism based on semi plausible villains will scare us more into respecting the characters on the screen. There are scenes where the fabric of it's own ground-rules get torn to shred - for example a villain kicking the as of a dozen men as practice, only to get his ass stomped by the Transporter who scarsely breaks a sweat. I don't think most terrorists are super genius martial arts experts, in fact the ones you see on the news look like a bunch of shlubs they recruited out of homeless shelters. It would be refreshing to see Villains who couldn't defend themselves against a woman with a walker. I guess that's just too much to hope for.

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