History Film / TheTransporter

--> '''Frank Martin''': Let me guess. You're the smart one.
--> '''Enormous thug''': No. I am the big one.
--> [[[PunchedAcrossTheRoom Punches Frank across the room, through a cinder block wall]]]

* BetweenMyLegs: PsychoForHire Lola gives us [[http://film.animare.hu/i/f/44/680.jpg a good look]] at her red CombatStilettos before using GunsAkimbo on the protagonist for the first time.
** This is also featured on [[http://www.showbizlol.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Kate-Nauta-Transporter-2-Lola-Poster.jpg one version]] of the movie poster and possibly DVD cover.

* BottomlessMagazines: Averted when the mooks riddle Frank's car with bullets, then rush to get more ammunition which is locked in the garage. Unfortunately, so is Frank.
* TheCartel: Chillini's employers in the second movie.

* TastesLikeFriendship: Inspector Tarconi befriends an entire police precinct by showing off his cooking skill in the second film.

The first film was a stylish (it ''was'' written by Creator/LucBesson, after all), fast-paced action romp, directed by Louis Letterier and choreographed by another frequent Jet Li collaborator, Cory Yuen who also served as co-director. The second and third movies dispensed with any pretensions of realism and are [[SequelEscalation considerably more over the top]]. The series is notable for [[StarMakingRole putting Statham on the map]], as well as [[TypeCasting setting the template for pretty much all of his subsequent roles]].

* AntiHero: More overt in the first film.

* GiantMook: One appears in all three movies:

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Wall Street has Frank beaten, has back-up right around the corner, and then leaves to let his mooks finish the job. Didn't the trail of bodies this person left convince you to maybe just finish the job yourself? After all, you were the ''only'' one who even gave him a challenge!

** There's also the BareYourMidriff ZettaiRyouiki girl who tries carjacking Frank in the opening of ''2''. And my God -- Lola!

''The Transporter'' is 2002 action film starring Creator/JasonStatham as Frank Martin: a gruff, ex-military man who is in the "transporting" business. Give him the money, the measurements, and the time and he'll get your stuff from A to B. Frank has a set of rules, one of which includes: "Never open the package". However, whilst transporting a large bag from a [[CardCarryingVillain somewhat unsavory client]], Frank discovers an Asian woman named Lai (Creator/ShuQi) stuffed inside his cargo. He is visibly bothered by this and allows her the basic opportunities of food and bathroom time (during which she tries to escape) but ultimately ends up delivering her to the Bad Guys anyway. Because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he looked in the package]] the bad guys try to kill him and from there, {{hilarity ensues}}.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Due to stronger words and bloody violence, this film is considered this and was the first one to received an R rating from the MPAA.

* AmbiguouslyGay: The director of the second movie has stated that Frank is gay, but it's only written in on the subtext level. Inspector Tarconi's description of his relationship with Frank makes them sound like a gay couple, and Frank turns down the advances of Audrey Billings, but that could just as easily be because she's tipsy, emotionally vulnerable, and married to his employer. (In ''3''), [[DiscontinuityNod Frank specifically claims he's not gay,]] so he must be bi.

* AmbiguouslyGay: The director of the second movie has stated that Frank is gay, but it's only written in on the subtext level. Inspector Tarconi's description of his relationship with Frank makes them sound like a gay couple, and Frank turns down the advances of Audrey Billings, but that could just as easily be because she's tipsy, emotionally vulnerable, and married to his employer. (In ''3''), [[DiscontinuityNod Frank specifically claims he's not gay]].

* FanserviceExtra: The woman on the Jet Ski, with a rapid but generous close-up of her buttocks and legs, after being transferred by Martin to the passenger seat on the Jet Ski, in an acrobatic maneuver.

* FanserviceExtra: The woman on the Jet Ski, with a rapid but generous close-up of her "assets", after being transferred to the passenger seat on the Jet Ski in an acrobatic maneuver.

* FanserviceExtra: The woman on the Jet Ski, with a rapid but generous close-up of her buttocks and legs, after being transferred to the passenger seat on the Jet Ski in an acrobatic maneuver.

* HiddenBadass: No one seems to expect a simple Transporter to be a badass former Special Forces operative.

The first film was a stylish (it ''was'' written by Creator/LucBesson, after all), fast-paced action romp, directed by Louis Letterier and choreographed by another frequent Jet Li collaborator, Cory Yuen who also served as co-director. The second and third movies dispensed with any pretensions of realism and are [[SequelEscalation considerably more over the top]]. The series is notable for putting Statham on the map, as well as [[TypeCasting setting the template for pretty much all of his subsequent roles]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Downplayed. Mr. Kwai is ready to shoot his own daughter by the end, but it's a last resort and he truly does seem regretful at having to do so. Before this he fully expected that he would be able to raise DaddysLittleVillain, when the truth is Lai hates him.

'''Rule 2''': [[NoNameGiven No names]].\\
'''Rule 3''': ''Never'' look in [[SealedEvilInACan the package]].

The first film was a stylish (it ''was'' written by Creator/LucBesson, after all), fast-paced action romp, directed and choreographed by another frequent Jet Li collaborator, Cory Yuen. The second and third movies dispensed with any pretensions of realism and are [[SequelEscalation considerably more over the top]]. The series is notable for putting Statham on the map, as well as [[TypeCasting setting the template for pretty much all of his subsequent roles]].

Nothing to do with TeleportersAndTransporters. Or {{Transformers}}.

* KickTheDog: TheDragon spends most of his screen time kicking dogs in one form or another, starting with [[BadBoss murdering one of his men]] on the off chance that they might talk. And then there's his speech to Frank and Lai in which he calls the latter a lying whore, accuses Frank of being dumb enough to let her trick him, and finishes with the following line about the 400 people they came to save from being smuggled in: "Just for the record there ''were'' 400 people in that container. Only three hundred ninety-five made it here alive."

* KidnappersKFC: Once he figures out his "package" is human cargo, Frank buys her an Orangina at a highway convenience store halfway to his destination.