It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movies name should be changed to "where is my father"

Now there are many things wrong with this attempt to bring new life into the Transporter series. Though I never remember it having any problems with Statham in the main role-at least not as huge problems as this one has by trying to create a Transporter universe. Something the Bourne universe did better with Jeremy Renner and still fell flat on their noses/backs/behinds or whatever you want to call it.There is Ray S. who is completely wasted in this (no pun intended), there is misogyny aplenty and just stupid and mean. And there is also so many clichés and ridiculous holes in the "plot" (if you want to call it that), that it almost physically hurts watching. On the other side (the "good" one), you do have certain stunts and action scenes that kind of deliver what the movie promised. But all is let down by really bad acting, dumb "twists" (you really have to be blind and deaf not to see them coming) and an overall dread (PG-13) feeling ... steer clear! Pun intended!

Former special-operations mercenary Frank Martin assists a prostitute Anna and her accomplices Gina, Maria and Qiaobring take down a human trafficker in order to save his father, Frank Martin Senior.Director Camille Delamarre's The Transporter Refueled has a handful of decent stunts and action sequences, one of which involving a fight in a car park where Frank leaves his car in drive. But considering Delamarre is an acclimated editor there's lot of stand-out continuity errors and Frank's retrieving a key brawl scene would have been more effective if left on the cutting room floor as it diminishes the harder aforementioned punch up. A Good Day to Die Hard henchman Radivoje Bukvić as Arkady Karasov gives the film some weight. With one liners, tongue and cheek humour Ray Stevenson steals the show as Frank Martin Sr. from Ed Skrein's Frank Martin Jr. There's a good A-Team scene where Stevenson's using everyday items, including cobwebs and sugar tends to a gunshot wound. But you sense that there was a draft version of The Transporter Refueled where Jason Statham was on board. Notable is Tatiana Pajkovic as Maria who has exceptional screen presence, there's a fine set up where her and Stevenson's Martin Sr. hijack a plane which goes awry. Actresses Noémie Lenoir, Gabriella Wright and lead Loan Chabanol as Anna are all effective but there's no getting away from Delamarre's eye that appears to be more concerned with the flesh and skirt on display, amping up the music score and colour timing. It feels forced and staged rather than fluid as it goes from one set up to the next with little consequence or consideration not even for safe sex. That's one of the issues with Karasov's offering while has a South of France location and a beautiful looking cast its all superficial and the shadow of Statham hangs over it. Maybe The Transporter Refueled would have worked better tweaked as a generic father son action film rather than a reboot of a sleeper hit series.Overall, possibly worth watching for Stevenson elder Frank and Tatiana Pajkovic.

This movie comes in second as one of the dumbest movies I've seen in the last year. The first one is the terrible remake of Point Break. Apparently Ed Skrein was on Game of thrones. I don't remember him on that amazing show so he must have been terrible. Either way he's no Jason Statham and based on his terrible wooden performance in this unnecessary garbage of a remake, he will hopefully remain a nobody.I have nothing nice to say about this crap. Frank Martin was a smart operator and highly intelligent when he was played by Statham. Skreins version acts retarded. Neither him, nor his father, with the same name, (what a dumb idea) ever seem to even care, no matter what happens to them. The movie drags on and on and the actionscenes are lame and seen a 100 times before. How many times do we have to watch the hero being chased by the local police though narrow streets in some European city? How many times do we have to believe that not only do the local police drive crappy little cars, but they're also complete inept drivers who crashes their cars first chance they get. And the father is kidnapped twice, because I guess the writers ran out of ideas. And don't even get me started on the product placement. Pretty much every scene either shows brands of alcohol, cars or smartphones and it's not enough to mention a certain vodka, no it has to be praised too in the scene. It made me really angry. On top of that this movie takes place in 2010. The leads all have iphone 5 or 5s. These models didn't even exist in 2010. That just shows you how retarded this pile of crap really is. It still amazes me when movies like this get greenlighted with as inept actors as Ed Skrein to replace as good an actor as Jason Statham. And yes Statham is a good actor. Watch the movie Hummingbird, if you don't believe me. Avoid this. Even if you're paid to see it. Avoid it. Watch the original three with Statham instead. The third one is terrible but practically a Shakespeare play, compared to this piece of crap.