'The Transporter Refueled' - Movie Review - Mid-Day

This is a reboot of the movie that launched Jason Statham into the Hollywood mainstream as an action-hero worthy of his salts. It's located in the south of France, where former special-ops mercenary Frank Martin (Ed 'Game of Thrones' Skrein) with plans of spending some quality time with his newly-retired father (Stevenson), gets waylaid by a mystery call away on duty by... Luc Besson's attempts to re-energise the franchise with an entirely new cast and tech team doesn't do anything to make the experience memorable. 'Game of Thrones' star Ed Skrein's Frank Martin fails to measure up in Statham's shoes. By itself, the film is a fairly decent actioner but when compared to the Jason Statham original, it just doesn't get into speed. The Audi A8 also doesn't have enough tricks on show here to impress either. Camille 'Brick Mansions' Delamarre was expected to helm-kick this refuel in an attempt to get the rehash business in top-gear but the dubious action, poor structuring, unaffecting performances, digitised edit-heavy stunt action and jumpy... Source: www.mid-day.com