Not that Camille Delamarre (another failed Luc Besson protege) does very much with his directing. He’s slow in the sequences he’s in and the director has to overly rely on quick edits to make it seem like fights have impact. It doesn’t help that he clearly doesn’t have the fighting skills to handle the role. Skreim lacks the every-man demeanor that Statham brings to a role and that means that his Frank Martin is just boring. Statham’s charm, wit and style are replaced by what appears to be a very handsome wood carving. Of course part of the charm of the original character was what Jason Statham brought to the role. His character never really gets pushed into interesting places, and that makes the rest of the flaws in the film stand out even more. Frank stoically goes from fight sequence to chase sequence on the most predictable path there is. It takes away one of the unique edges that the franchise had and instead of a character you get an archetype. Unlike in the original film where you felt like Frank was constantly upset by this shift in his life this time around it feels like he’s all in from the start. The problem with that premise is that it’s never executed. The premise, much like in the first films, is that this is very against Frank’s rules and his personal coda. In this case it involves a group of sex slaves led by Anna (Loan Chabonal) and his father Frank Sr. Yes, there’s some minor plot differences, but the general gist is that a professional driver, Frank Martin (Ed Skrein), is called into a job and then gets sucked into some drama he doesn’t want to be in. The Transporter Refueled is basically The Transporter, but with a different actor and four girls instead of one.
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