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Filename: H6-MORE-AJCD0909-AJCD created: Sep 8 2005 Username: SPEED10 AJCD0909 Friday, Sep 09, 2005 MORE 6 AJCD 6 6 Friday, Sept. 9, 2005 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 4 H6 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Cyan Magenta Yellow Black AJCD Filename: H6-MORE-AJCD0909-AJCD You just KNOW in for a good ride at the front end of Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is sitting in a parking deck behind the wheel of his awesomely sweet, Audi A8 when this baby doll of a young lady with a bare midriff tippy-toes over and tippy-taps his window and goes, Help, help, my got a And Frank goes, what? got to do. And the half-dressed baby- doll aims a gun at his head, and her carjacker pals jump out and try to snatch Audi. Bad move. Sure, Frank wears a suit, losing his hair and he drives a car that all but SCREAMS, my tiny reproductive But a one-man demolition team, and those jackers get jacked by Frankie big time.

the kind of movie this is the perfect blend of fast cars, tough dudes, high-powered weapons and girls that afford enough clothes to cover anything but their ladiest of parts. And, yep, you guessed it set in Miami! Frank is the Transporter, an ex-Special Forces getaway driver deliver any kind of package for the right price, no questions asked. Right now, though, in as a chauffeur for a friend, driving this super- cute kid named Jack (Hunter Clary) to school and back. mom is Audrey (model-actress Amber Valletta), married to a major tool of a politician, Jeff (Matthew Modine). about to host a conference with South American leaders trying to the drug trade.

And that is just NOT something you try to in Miami, any more than J. Lo, retired New Yorkers, gay guys with spray-on tans, Gloria Estefan or neon. They BELONG in Miami, and nothing you can do about it. So no big surprise when little Jack gets kidnapped, right after Frank promises never let anybody hurt the kid. But Frank is a man of his word, and he sets off on a one-man mission to the The chief baddy is Eurotrash gangster Gianni (Alessandro Gassman), working for the drug cartels and is ready to take Miami out with a killer virus if he has to.

Then his henchlady, Lola, who is 18 shades of crazy. got raccoon eyes and wears pink silk undies that match her giant suction-cup lips, and probably match her brain color, too, if she had one. played by a model called Kate Nauta, who speaks her lines like she learned them the Hooked on Phonics way.) Poor carrying so many guns on her, she lightens the load by wearing as few clothes as she can mainly garter belts and panties. In other words, she blends right in with everybody else in Miami. See, I told you this movie was excellent! I hardly even mentioned Jason Statham, who is awesome as the Transporter and does most of his own stunts.

Well, except for the stunt where he his car upside down and a crane hook scrapes a bomb off the bottom of his Audi. Because nobody can do that stunt except for the special FX people who made it up in their computer. Anyway, Jason throws people out windows and crushes them with boats. Plus he takes out this whole gang of thugs using a big, hard pipe and a really long that stiffens up when he cranks on the water. Yeah, Sigmund Freud would get a good laugh watching this movie.

He might want to put Frank on the couch and ask him about the symbolism of that Audi, or why Frank gives Audrey the brushoff when she shows up at his house all drunk and frisky. I mean, AMBER VALLETTA, for of sake. Speaking of that, the only real letdown about is, you have Amber on the Good Guy side, and Kate Nauta on the Bad Guy side. But the movie never gives us the model-on-model that would make a PERFECT FILM. Oh well, got just about everything else evil Russkies, a French guy with a food fetish, a trashy Italian villain and a stoned Jamaican taxi driver.

like somebody set a action in that nations-of- the-world part of Epcot. Then Statham, an amazing even if he IS from England and maybe has a small reproductive If nothing else, got a message for the guys out in the audience: You can go bald and STILL kick some righteous am I right? A bald guy, babes, fast cars not to love here? Jordy Purlky who has a LOT in common with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Bigfoot, brings his B-movie perspective to all kinds of every Friday in Movies More. E-mail your questions or comments to Please include your name and phone number. Jordy Purlky Jr. opens his mailbag and responds to his legions of fans (and a few misguided detractors) online at www.

accessAtlanta.com (click on Movies). Naked breasts: think so, since in Miami, but nope. Dirty words: Your basic PG-13 variety. Best lines: not medical, psychochick Lola before she plugs a nurse in the head. not really a friend.

Frank, talking about his colleague from France. The rest: Directed by Louis Leterrier. Rated PG-13, intense sequences of violent action, sexual content, partial nudity and brief language. At metro theaters. 1 hour, 28 minutes.

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