Transporter 2

Transporter 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLouis Leterrier
Written by
Based onCharacters
by Luc Besson
Robert Mark Kamen
Produced by
  • Luc Besson
  • Steve Chasman
Starring
CinematographyMitchell Amundsen
Edited by
Music byAlexandre Azaria
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 3 August 2005 (2005-08-03) (France)
  • 2 September 2005 (2005-09-02) (United States)
Running time
88 minutes[3]
CountryFrance[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$32 million[4][2]
Box office$89.1 million[2]

Transporter 2 (French: Le Transporteur 2) is a 2005 English-language French action film directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen. It is the sequel to The Transporter (2002) and the second installment in the Transporter franchise, followed by Transporter 3 (2008) and The Transporter Refueled, also called Transporter 4 (2015). It stars Jason Statham as Frank Martin, with Alessandro Gassmann, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, François Berléand, Matthew Modine, and Jason Flemyng. In the film, Frank Martin (Statham) is tasked with protecting the young son of politician Jefferson Billings (Modine) from an international drugs cartel.

Transporter 2 was theatrically released in France on 3 August 2005, by EuropaCorp, and was released in the United States on 2 September by 20th Century Fox. It received mixed reviews from critics with praise for Statham's performance, action sequences and direction, but criticism for its screenwriting. It grossed $89.1 million worldwide and was followed by the sequel Transporter 3 (2008).

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  2. ^ a b c "Transporter 2". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
  3. ^ "Transporter 2 (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 1 September 2005. Archived from the original on 25 December 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  4. ^ "The Transporter II (2005)". JP's Box-Office. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2018.