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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Transporter 2

Nope. Nothing homoerotic here. Jason Statham is an actor so relentlessly masculine and uncamp that he goes right round the dial and back into gay. Thus any scene featuring him interacting in some way with another man almost always manages to be deeply homoerotic. Transporter emphasised this by having such things as a fight scene in a garage wherein a ~~topless~~ shirtless Statham tussles with a veritable army of baddies and everyone gets increasingly smeared in spilt engine oil.

Sadly, Transporter 2 doesn't really have anything quite so gloriously slashy, although it has its moments: Statham gets at least part of his shirt ripped away before having his arm dragged through something which may or may not be spilt engine oil, and does fight some baddies off using a hosepipe which eventually swells to rigidity. He also doesn't have sex with a woman.

Does this bug you? The story is unimportant, because frankly it's a load of rubbish, all you need to know is that there are baddies, some with vehicles, and Jason will stomp on them, sometimes using a vehicle. There is a henchwoman called Lola who has a gun in each hand and a tattoo at the top of her inner thigh; when she's not shooting people she does things like lick Jason Statham's face, dance around in her underwear and get ogled. She is, in fact, eroticised to the point of utter non-sexiness, a matter not helped by being played, as per usual, by a model cast for her striking looks and not her acting talent.

And yet, I had an unfeasibly good time with Transporter 2. The fight scenes, stunts and set pieces are so wonderfully ludicrous, and pulled off with such conviction, I simply couldn't help but enjoy them.

Jason Statham is also really good at this stuff.

[ mood | lethargic ]
[ music | Erasure - A Little Respect ]