

When Tarconi arrives, Kwai and Wall Street accuse Frank of kidnapping Lai. Kwai arrives and his henchmen subdue Frank. Kwai, is also a human trafficker and Wall Street's partner in crime. Lai and Frank go to Wall Street's office, where Wall Street reveals that Lai's father, Mr. Frank, presumed dead by Wall Street, wants to rebuild his villa and start a new life and advises Lai to do so too before she tells him that Wall Street is a human trafficker with 400 Chinese trapped in shipping containers, including her family. Later, while being questioned at the police station, Lai accesses Tarconi's computer to find information on Wall Street. Shortly after, Wall Street's hitmen fire missiles and automatic weapons down on the house.įrank and Lai barely escape through an underwater passage to a nearby safe house. Tarconi again leaves with no concrete evidence. Lai supports Frank's alibi by introducing herself as his new cook and girlfriend. The next day, Tarconi arrives and asks about Frank's car, which Frank claims was stolen. Wall Street visits one of his surviving men in hospital in order to determine who attacked his residence, before killing the man after discovering that Frank is alive. He brings the young woman, whose name is Lai, back to his house. Frank then steals a car (a Mercedes-Benz S-Klasse) to get away, only to find "the package" bound and gagged in the back seat. Out for vengeance, Frank returns to Wall Street's villa where he kills and wounds several henchmen. As Frank stops to buy drinks for the cops in his trunk, a bomb hidden in the briefcase explodes. Frank delivers the package to Wall Street as promised and agrees to another job, transporting a briefcase. She attempts to escape but Frank recaptures her and returns her to the trunk along with two policemen who spot them. He discovers a woman, tied up and gagged. Realizing a person is inside, he violates his third rule in order to give the person something to drink. While changing a flat tire, Frank notices the package moving. The package is loaded into Frank's trunk. Frank is then hired to deliver a package of 50 kilograms (110 lb) to an American, Darren "Wall Street" Bettencourt. At Frank's villa on the French Riviera, local Police Inspector Tarconi questions Frank about the black BMW that fled the scene of the robbery which Frank was the getaway driver. The robbers escape in another car, but are foiled by their amateur driving. Later they offer more money for Frank to drive them to Avignon. Explaining the extra weight will affect his precisely planned getaway, he refuses to drive until, in desperation, the leader kills one of his men who is pushed out of the car. In Nice, Frank is hired to transport three bank robbers with his black BMW 735i, but they hoist a fourth man in his car after the robbery. He strictly follows three rigid rules when transporting: It grossed $43.9 million worldwide and was followed by the sequel Transporter 2 (2005).įrank Martin is a former special operations soldier and now highly skilled driver/mercenary residing in southern France whose callsign is The Transporter. It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its action sequences but criticism for its story. The Transporter premiered at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles on 2 October 2002 and was first theatrically released in the United States on 11 October by 20th Century Fox, and in France on 23 October by EuropaCorp.
TRANSPORTER CAR SERIES
The Transporter inspired was by the short film series The Hire.
TRANSPORTER CAR DRIVER
In the film, Frank, a British mercenary driver living in France, finds himself involved in a people smuggling plot. It is the first installment in the Transporter franchise and stars Jason Statham as Frank Martin, alongside Shu Qi, François Berléand, Matt Schulze, and Ric Young. The Transporter (French: Le Transporteur) is a 2002 French English-language action-thriller film directed by Cory Yuen from a screenplay by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.
