| The Transporter Collection | 
 enlarge | Directors: Corey Yuen, Louis Leterrier
Actors: Jason Statham, Qi Shu, Matt Schulze, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $26.98
Buy New: $19.37
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1703
Format: Closed-captioned, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Italian (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 177
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2236074D
UPC: 024543260738
EAN: 0024543260738
ASIN: B000FKO3WG
Theatrical Release Date: September 2, 2005
Release Date: August 22, 2006
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/13/2008
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 Top notch, fast moving action November 30, 2008
These two films are great fun and packed with stunts, quality fights, plenty of good lines and a lot to enjoy. There's no shortage of decent setpieces and you certainly won't be bored watching these. Great stuff.
Great series October 12, 2008
Great series. Lots of fun. I can hardly wait for the third film which is coming soon to DVD
excellent June 19, 2008
I've seen both of these movies, I liked them so much that I had to add them to my collection.
Edition Clarification June 7, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Since this website tends to lump reviews from other editions of the same movie(s) all together, I thought I'd just point out what's actually inside the box, just in case anyone is as confused as I was.
This is for "The Transporter Collection", the box of which has a bar along the top that says "Includes Both Explosive Feature Films!" and a photo of Statham leaping through the air with two guns drawn and aimed, and the bottoms of his shoes visible.
Inside this box are both movies, each in their own retail plastic case, just as if you would have bought them each at any store. You could theoretically just toss the outer cardboard sleeve if you want. I'm keeping mine, but it's not necessary except as something to keep the two retail versions together.
"The Transporter" is the "Special Delivery Edition", same as the retail version. Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Region 1 NTSC Full-length Audio Commentary by Actor Jason Statham and Producer Steven Chasman, 15 minutes of Unrated Extended Fight Sequences Not Shown In Theaters with optional commentary by Statham, Chasman, and Director Cory Yuen, Behind-The-Scenes Documentary, Storyboard-to-Film comparison, A look At Making Transporter 2.
"Transporter 2" Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1. Otherwise, no special features.
I didn't include a review of the actual movies, since others here have done that better than I could. This was intended merely to help others like me, who may have been confused by the lack of information. If I've missed anything, please let me know in the comment section, and I'll try to address it, or someone else can.
 How is this a bargain? April 28, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I absolutely loved Transporter, and was pleasantly surprised when Transporter 2 turned out to be an even better movie.
But the current asking price for the package is more than the current asking price for the two individual DVDs combined.
What justifies this? Is there some value added? Are there more entertaining "special features" in the boxed set? We'll never know, because Amazon doesn't have anything to say about the set. It's just dropped on us like bovine excrement on a flat rock. Which usually speaks for itself.
Back to the Transporter series and Jason Statham:
Statham was excellent in this two-movie series, and the character was extremely appealing. One wonders why they don't milk this for at least one more film, since it has built-in box office appeal.
However, someone has spent a TON of money bankrolling vehicles for Statham. He's a so-so action star, his appeal as "good guy" exceeds his ability to play a "not so good guy": his character in "Crank" was so desultory that that we didn't care whether he lived or died. (Good thing: he died.) He was okay in "WAR", but Jet Li carried him ... Li was the star, Statham was the supporting actor; his character had no fire.
Heck in, "In The Name Of The King", Statham was unconvincing and supported by washed-up aging actors Burt Reynolds and John Rhys Davies. Burt was wooden, Rhys Davies was an example of how awful it is when the Botox wears off, and Statham with his salon-maintained trademark two-day-old beard was, at best, an anachronistic Farmer. And that is one of the best movies of the many he has starred in for the past 3 years (with the possible exception of "The Bank Job", which is so exceptionally good that it actually enjoyed a feature-run in the theaters rather than going directly to DVD.)
If his career continues to be so mis-managed, Statham is likely to end up like Steven Seagal, Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme. YOu know them; the make a movie with their buddys every year or two, it goes directly to DVD, and they make enough from Hollywood Video rentals to make house payments and an annual trip to the Bahamas. They just don't care anymore, because they've had a couple of blockbusters and it's all just a paycheck any more.
(John Wayne did the same thing, but that was before "go directly to DVD". And he's dead: a very effective marketing device which is probably not attractive to Statham.)
So my question is, if someone is willing to back Statham's career to the point of producing some very expensive movies, why can't they spend a few more bucks to get good writers and good directors and good editors? The production values (with the exception of the editing) are excellent in all of the films, but the movies produced seem to be without oversight.
Just a few changes in the scripts and editing would have resulted in GOOD movies rather than just ACCEPTABLE movies. Are the directors unwilling to put in the cutting room overtime needed to make a so-so movie better?
Unfortunately, if Statham makes another movie as good as the Transporter duo, it will probably be badly marketed. Again.
Too bad. Statham has proven that he is capable of starring in good movies (eg: Transporter 1 & 2.) But he has typically been denied his real big break ... a producer who cares enough to make the very best.
Oh, and Amazon? Do the math, okay?
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