The Transporter Refueled
EuropaCorp USA | Release Date: September 4, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaSep 3, 2015
It's mindless entertainment with enough thrills and chuckles to make the time pass painlessly. Just don't examine anything too closely. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskySep 6, 2015
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 full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyKyle AndersonSep 3, 2015
It’s hard to deny the hedonistic joy in the way Delamarre plays with his various toys, and the goofball stunts—including the yacht-based finale, with a special appearance by a jet ski—are generally worth wandering through the dialogue desert. Read full review
60
VarietyAndrew BarkerSep 3, 2015
The Transporter Refueled comes up strong where it counts, with frequent bursts of ludicrously implausible yet coherently directed mayhem. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoSep 7, 2015
Director and Team Besson member Camille Delamarre (“Brick Mansions”) speeds us from one action sequence to the next with a style that alternates between routine, clunky, and modestly inspired. Read full review
42
The PlaylistNick SchagerSep 3, 2015
Amidst this goofiness, Skrein proves a serviceable Statham replacement, capable of executing elaborate martial arts-inspired fight moves, glowering behind the wheel of his car, and generally acting like a cold, detached thug-for-hire who, deep down, has a heart of gold. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriSep 7, 2015
Stupid, stupid, stupid — and it certainly knows it. You might even chuckle contentedly at its knowing silliness — that’s sort of what this low-rent franchise is here for — but you’ll also miss Jason Statham, whose deadpan self-awareness somehow legitimized the ridiculousness of the previous films. Read full review
40
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergSep 3, 2015
The Transporter Refueled is crass and nonsensical, but it is hard to hate a movie in which a medical anesthetic is administered with a nightclub fog machine, the weapons include a ringed life preserver, an escape from a moving plane continues by car onto a jetway and the touch-screen banking software appears expressly designed for double-crossing. Read full review
40
TheWrapJames RocchiSep 3, 2015
The action’s accent on Russian rogues, lethal ladies and Rivera-set car chases makes The Transporter Refueled feel less like a film and more like the world’s most violent Vanity Fair fashion spread, all poses and pouts instead of the two-fisted, rough life of the originals. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 3, 2015
The first Transporter film in seven years is moderately entertaining and reliably ludicrous in all the predictable ways, but the film’s new sharp-dressed driver doesn’t possess the effortless stoic wit of the original trilogy’s Jason Statham, which ends up making all the difference. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckSep 2, 2015
Director Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions) and his collaborators have devised a few nifty sequences. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Julia CooperSep 3, 2015
For all its high-speed car chases and extravagant stunts, director Camille Delamarre’s reboot of the Transporter franchise is as punctilious as Frank himself – glossy in finish but a little uptight. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiSep 3, 2015
To be honest, this storyline is not noticeably stupider in theory than any of the other "Transporter" films. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittSep 3, 2015
A mostly dreadful reboot by director Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions) that casts English youngster Ed Skrein in Statham's role as well-dressed driver-for-hire Frank Martin. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaSep 3, 2015
The titular Transporter is now but a blank slate serving the characters and mayhem surrounding him, a walking metaphor for a franchise that's run out of gas. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSep 5, 2015
Cheap silliness abounds, including car chases that are more about loud crashes and CGI than the thrill of speed. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanSep 3, 2015
The first “Transporter” delivered an unexpected kick, courtesy of Statham, who made for a brooding, magnetic — and reliably kinetic — action hero. Skrein is an inferior stand-in, scowling like his predecessor, but lacking Statham’s cool, coiled power. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithSep 3, 2015
The Transporter Refueled is a story of bodies: sleek, curvy, luscious bodies, purring for action and ready to let you do anything to them. They’re hotties, these Audis. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdoñaSep 3, 2015
The movie’s ridiculous. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 3, 2015
The chases are nothing special. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisSep 9, 2015
It appears that this franchise has hit a dead end, running on nothing but fumes. Read full review
20
Village VoiceSimon AbramsSep 9, 2015
it's overstuffed, undercooked, and needlessly complicated. Read full review
20
The TelegraphTim RobeySep 3, 2015
The samurai code of Transporting has been ditched, the budget slashed, the product placement upped through the roof. And it’s the first of a threatened trilogy. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierSep 3, 2015
The Transporter Refueled should be put up on blocks. Read full review
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