The Transporter (US 2002), which has some of the maddest scenes ever. There's a fight scene where our hero (Jason Statham) spills a drum of oil and jumps about on bicycle pedals and another where he sucks the air from a dead bad guy's lungs, while under water. Statham is the most dangerous man alive and can kill twenty bad guys on a bus without breaking a sweat, and yet there is a fight scene among some storage containers, where the No. 1 bad guy pushes him over and just walks away. Statham's accent is always confusing to me. He is from Norfolk, but where he is supposed to be from in his films is a mystery. I suppose Transporter is not meant to be cinematic art and it is fast paced, or as the press prefer to say, 'high-octane'.
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