The hero’s father mentions how the hero’s late mother was a good Catholic, but he didn’t want any of that for his funeral but wanted to be cremated. Worldviews, Subtext, Symbolism, Themes of Redemption, Social Commentary, the Question of “Spiritual Edification,” Etc. I enjoyed all of the aerial shots and some of the external settings.Įntertainment value/film craft rating for “The Transporter Refueled”: Though it’s always fun to see a movie that features the exotic setting of the French Riviera. There were some really good ideas in the screenplay that had great potential, but those ideas stayed at very shallow depths. The strengths weren’t enough to overcome a script that felt dumbed down by a lazy pre-packaged commercial formula. It was sort of a modern retelling of the classic “Count of Monte Cristo” formula, but this strong idea was crippled by a weak script. The whole woman-sold-into-human-trafficking-and-coming-back-for-revenge plot was actually a very strong idea. I also thought the father-son teamwork was interesting and somewhat rare for any movie, but the script’s Lowest Common Denominator laziness trampled over the interesting father-son dynamic. But the film leaves those interesting traits largely unexplored. The hero had some interesting personality tendencies - almost reminding me of an interesting cross between the OCD Sheldon from “Big Bang Theory” and James Bond. The stale commercial formula for action movies plowed over any of those possibilities, and the movie felt like a missed opportunity, though it does have some especially nice hand-to-hand combat scenes (Ed Skrein, the actor who plays the hero Frank Martin, is a great fighter). There’s nothing new that happens here, though there were some interesting possibilities that were left unexplored in the script. “The Transporter Refueled” is as straight-forward an action movie as you can get.
(Review continues below) Please Support Our Affiliates! Entertainment Value and Film Craft All the other “minor” swear words (s-words, b-words, etc.) are consistently scattered throughout the film.Īlcohol/Drug/Smoking Content: People are seen drinking and smoking in a variety of scenes. A woman is shot in the abdomen, and we see blood pumping out of her body, and she is going into convulsions as they try to apply pressure to the wound. The charred corpses of other characters are shown in great detail on the tables of a morgue.
We see people shot in the head at close range, and we see the bullet wounds appear on their foreheads. Violence/Gore/Scary Content: It pushes the boundaries for PG-13. We see prostitutes standing on the sidewalks trying to get customers, but the film highlights the pain and darkness that fills that lifestyle, and a male character observes that such a life - human trafficking and prostitution - is “the worst it gets” in this world. However, the film also portrays the prostitution world of human trafficking in a very negative light. Casual sex outside of marriage is glorified when the hero of the film beds one of the women bank robbers. A couple scenes show a woman making out with another woman. In one such scene, the woman embraces a man and they tumble onto a bed and sex is implied (though nothing else is shown). Sexual Content/Nudity/Themes of Sexuality and Romance: There are four or five scenes with women dancing for men in very skimpy lingerie. Parental Guidance Issues at a Glance for this PG-13 rated film…
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