The action sequences are completely absurd in this amped-up James Bond meets Bruce Lee farce, said Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. French writer-producer Luc Besson and director Louis Leterrier bring a zany flair to implausible situations. To wit: Our hero tears a bomb off his car by racing it up a ramp, into the air, and ripping the explosive off—then lands the vehicle safely. Jason Statham plays Frank Martin, the Transporter, a bodyguard for the child of a drug-enforcement official. The boy is abducted in an operation that turns out to be more than a simple kidnapping. Statham is
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