The Transporter Refueled 2015

Critics score:
17 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Wesley Morris, Grantland: There aren't enough showpiece numbers for Skrein, at least not of the quality that Jason Statham has had. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: I've seen lines at the post office that moved with more urgency and passion than "The Transporter Refueled." Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: A game, if ultimately futile, attempt to carry on a series whose greatest asset has departed. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: One of the most enjoyable bad movies of the year. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Refueled isn't a good movie by most metrics, but it is consistently committed to mainlining the basest action-movie pleasures at the expense of damn near everything else. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: "The Transporter Refueled" is the perfect way to reboot the series. It's mindless entertainment with enough thrills and chuckles to make the time pass painlessly. Just don't examine anything too closely. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: They could have called this one something else entirely - "The Driver," say, or "The Courier" - and the way it sold the movie's uniqueness would have been just as legitimate. Or just as forced. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: Muscular pretty boy Ed Skrein takes over for Jason Statham in this fourth installment of the popular action franchise, though the real stars are the stunt performers. The elaborate, violent set pieces are impressively orchestrated. Read more

Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Feels less like an action movie and more like a checklist for an action movie, a generic run-through of every trick and trope of the past three decades jammed into 90 minutes. Read more

Kyle Anderson, Entertainment Weekly: It's hard to deny the hedonistic joy in the way Delamarre plays with his various toys, and the goofball stunts ... are generally worth wandering through the dialogue desert. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: The Transporter Refueled is running on cheap gas. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Cheap silliness abounds, including car chases that are more about loud crashes and CGI than the thrill of speed. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: "The Transporter Refueled" should be put up on blocks. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times: "The Transporter Refueled" is crass and nonsensical, but it is hard to hate ... Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: "Refueled?" No. Recycled? Yes. Totally. Read more

Michael Ordona, San Francisco Chronicle: Those who enjoyed the first three "Transporter" flicks and helped turn them into a mediocre, cumulative hit will get what they want, though with brutish Mr. Statham replaced by dreamy Mr. Skrein. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Refueled? It is running on empty from the start. Read more

Julia Cooper, Globe and Mail: In these 96 minutes of stilted dialogue and a plot that needlessly loops back on itself, you will find The Transporter Refueled dutifully following the rules and predictabilities of the action genre and not much else. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Producer Luc Besson is determined to wring every last euro out of this concept, having also taken it to TV in recent years. The gas gauge is reading "empty." Read more

James Rocchi, TheWrap: The original "Transporter" films were hardy filet mignon - more like Hamburger Helper. "The Transporter Refueled" feels even more bulked up and bland, Hamburger Helper Helper, a re-launch of a franchise that didn't really need, or deserve, one. Read more

Liz Braun, Toronto Sun: The Transporter Refueled is big, brainless fun and just the sort of amusement the back-to-school crowd might crave. Read more

Brian Truitt, USA Today: One doesn't make Jurassic Park without dinosaurs or Fast & Furious without racing cars, so why would anyone in their right mind do a Transporter film without Jason Statham? Read more