{"id":654,"date":"2003-06-06T23:53:54","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T23:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-654.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"the-transporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/06\/06\/the-transporter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Martin is a transporter.  He takes packages from one place to another, no questions asked.  To do his job, Frank operates by a set of rules:  1)  Never change the deal, 2) No names, 3) Never look inside the package.  His carefully organised life starts to go wrong when he breaks rule 3&#8230;.  The film opens with a fantastic car chase, and it keeps the pace up right to the end.  Although it&#8217;s set in the South of France, it&#8217;s essentially a Hong Kong action movie.  The fight scenes&#8211;of which there are <em>many<\/em>&#8211;are beautifully staged and deliciously over-the-top.  The acting won&#8217;t win anyone any Oscars, but it is appropriate to the genre:  the villain is a caricature of wickedness, the policeman is tired and cynical, and Jason Statham as the action hero is strong but sensitive.  Great fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Martin is a transporter. He takes packages from one place to another, no questions asked. To do his job, Frank operates by a set of rules: 1) Never change the deal, 2) No names, 3) Never look inside the package. His carefully organised life starts to go wrong when he breaks rule 3&#8230;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}