le transporteur trois

Left off last week with a bit on Louis Leterrier's* new Incredible Hulk flick. Leterrier won't be returning to the Transporter series for installment #3. The new one (trailer's out now) will be directed by bombastically self-named French ex-graffiteur Olivier Megaton.

Never made it to the second Transporter, but I had to grudgingly hand it to the first film. It's tough to remember a film so completely willing to dispense with even pretending it cared about the plot in favor of moving on to the next action scene, which is both what you want and what you get when you hire Corey Yuen (compatriot of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, a 30-year vet action choreographer and martial artist/acrobat since childhood) to direct.

*Some years ago, I made a smarmy comment to a friend about Leterrier being obvious French for "the terrier," which we both rightly dismissed as a pretty lowbrow gag, but you gotta think twice when you realize the guy made a movie called Danny the Dog (released as Unleashed in the US).