CastJason Statham
Natalya Rudakova
Robert Knepper
François Berléand
Justin Rodgers Hall
Eriq Ebouaney
Screenwriters
Luc Besson
Robert Mark Kamen
Director
Olivier Megaton
Running Time
104 minutes
Frank Martin has been pressured into transporting Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Ukraine, from Marseilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea. Along the way, with the help of Inspector Tarconi, Frank has to contend with the people who strong armed him to take the job, agents sent by Vasilev to intercept him, and the general non-cooperation of his passenger. Despite Valentina’s cynical disposition and his resistance to get involved, Frank and Valentina fall for each other, while escaping from one life-threatening situation after another. (Lionsgate)
It has better CGI effects than the second which were often obvious and cartoony. Here they were much less so, you believed what was happening. The fight choreography wasn't as good as the first two films, it wasn't terrible just not as clever. There's a major problem with the female lead, you couldn't tell what she was saying a lot of the time. She's playing a character for whom english is not their first language and that's probably true of the actress as well. Large parts of the film are just her and Frank Martin in the car, so if that doesn't work, if it's not engaging in some way like funny, romantic or dramatic then it's just dull. Unfortunately she was just one dimensional and difficult to understand. The plot was fine but it wasn't really revealed to the audience and Frank until quite a long way in, reading the summary at metacritic told me more than I learnt from watching the film, although you can kind of guess the gist, for some reason they hold back the details and make it much more frustratingly vague than it needs to be.
