Showing posts with label vehicular. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vehicular. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 September 2015

The Transporter: Refuelled

Simply put, not the best I have encountered throughout the whole series. Although this is a reboot of the trilogy of the past. I found the Frank(Kreins) character to be of weaker to a certain extent. Now while action was no short of it, I found it to be lacking. I loved the way they kept the majority of it. However with Frank's father???? now what up with that. Then to use the father in a kidnapping??? Nope completely lost there. The plus side, the Airport scene was class, and the usual speed chase of which we were treated to two.

PLOT

At the beginning we see a familiar, whereby a bunch of crooks are trying to steal the car. However Frank has other tricks up his sleeve. haahah. He then goes to meet his father Frank Snr(Stevenson). During one of his socials with his Pops, he answers a call to: "Is this the Transporter", great tagline, love it. He meets a woman who starts the whole thing. A series of events occurs. The girls help the Transporter in retaliation. 


Monday, 17 August 2015

Transporter 2

Frank's car is attempted to be robbed. Great start to a great series or franchise. Seatbelt is the third rule of the car. He drives Jack(Clary) a kid home from school. ON one of the days, he picks up the Jack to drop him at a party, he is somewhat caught in a crime spree. Frank is forced into a kidnapping AGAIN. as this time, the son of Jefferson(Modine) are being held. So this time Frank spends the whole movie searching down the culprits. However we later learn that it wasn't a kidnapping. It was actually something to do with Jefferson's Job. So he has been infected with the virus, and the wife Audrey(Valletta) and of course the son. Anyone who breathed the stuff would be infected as its airborne. and as such a search for antiDote ensues.

I found this movie to be exceptionally fabulous. However with the movie, thou, the title may need to be researched as the movie didn't deal at all with Frank actually Transporting packages etc., He transported a kid to school and spent the whole film in actually tracking the culprits etc., etc., Statham's acting capabilities much better than the first one. I find that Statham is much better acting alone than say the Expendables series. That belongs to Sylvester Stallone. Like his use of everyday objects as fighting mechanisms like the firehose , etc.,e ttc., And can anyone explain how did Frank get the AntiDote to the conference and to the folks. That wasn't explained.


The Transporter

The film is very basic plot. Thats what I love about movies. Some I do like when you are left guessing, but not all the time.

A Transporter is required to deliver "Packages" around. All Packages are "required" to follow "guidelines" in case of car chases. His first trip to deliver robbers Packages to a guy. "Weight", "Destination", He continues to get jobs or "Transports". However on one particular job, he receives a package to be delivered to Grenoble, France. He stops buy for refreshments and his car is blown up. As expected he gets very pissed off. This Chinese woman - Lai(Shu) was one of the deliver packages. HE delivers her. IN return he receives the package that blew up his car. So on a revenge warpath, he encounters Lai again. He is so annoyed. It is then revealed Lai involved in his personal life is actually because she tells Frank(Statham) that her Father and family are to become slaves in a shipment container.

I enjoyed the movie. Seen it a few times. Great action flick. No doubt. However I was lost as to the bit why Frank was late and yet Frank himself is punished by his car being blown up. So according to the film, If I'm late for something and that was MY rule, I should be punished?????


Transporter 3

This film, tells the story of Frank(Statham) being put to sleep or framed to so that the Frank has a band on him. It seams that he was asked to do a job in the first or second film, and he refused. And as such his past has come to haunt him. So as such he is now under surveillance with a bracelet.

While there was plenny of action in it, no doubt, and the skills as I said in the previous sequel is spectacular. However with this sequel, I found the plot slightly confusing. There was the Minister, his daughter, then the guy who was with the daughter at the beginning, and the baddies. Now I can't connect the baddies and the Minister. To do with Environment????


Saturday, 16 May 2015

Mad Max: Fury Road

Music score was fantastic. You don't really have to have had to see the previous sequels of Mad Max. Excellent. As one of my mates says, You weren't short of action. Plot was not as clear, but from what I could get, was Furiosa(Theron), was asked by Immortan(Keays-Byrne), to deliver or collect, can't recall. She instead went off course to East. Where Max(Hardy) comes in, I don't understand. I take it was captured, and he escaped, but was recaptured. So while Immortal's men were after Furiosa, Nux(Hoult) said he'd keep Max's blood, something like that. One thing I never understood, was why was Max getting vision of a young girl etc., etc.,


Thursday, 9 April 2015

Fast & Furious 7

It's been described as a Vehicular action film. No question. As Dominic Torreto(Diesel) says: "I don't have friends, I gots family". How true is that. They stick together as if they were family. They look out for one another. Plot being fairly simple. From the past Fast & Furious series sequels, the film starts off with Deckard Shaw(Statham) being dangerous as ever. He is comforting his brother who has been put in hospital. Now I haven't seen ANY of the Fast & Furious. However fans of this series would know and be able to connect the dots. ahhaah.Overall great film. One word is very simple REVENGE. That's all there is to it. ahahah. Twas very touching at the end of the film, the tribute to late Paul Walker who played Brian in the series. He died in a car accident.