It may seem quaint by today’s standards, but “The Transporter” remains in many ways the archetypal Statham performance - as well as the one that established him. Frank Martin (“The Transporter”, “The Transporter 2”, “The Transporter 3”) He’s totally in his element here, a killer team player in a movie that needs him to do that one specific thing he does better than anyone else in the world: Be himself. But the lad from Derbyshire makes it work. Playing a wheelman probably wasn’t much of a stretch for an actor who had just come off “The Transporter,” and his performance here is pretty much the stuff of Statham 101 (lots of flinty sarcasm and gritted teeth as he plays the kind of unrepentant criminal who could charm your parents and outdrink your friends). Gary Gray’s heist remake in the immortal role of Handsome Rob, whose name perfectly describes everything you need to know about the character in just two words (he’s handsome, and he robs).

Statham, just a few years removed from working as a model, completed his overnight Hollywood takeover by stealing F.

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