
(Their use of blond wigs for capers seems patterned after Brian De Palma films.) Sold into prostitution when she was 12, Anna now vamps about with former co-workers on a revenge quest inspired by the Three Musketeers. Comic relief has been delegated to a new character, his dad (Ray Stevenson), a retired spy, who addresses his son as “junior,” a dynamic borrowed from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”įrank’s latest client is Anna (Loan Chabanol), who hires him for a robbery in Monte Carlo. The new Frank is played by the reedy and humorless Ed Skrein, who substitutes smarm for Mr. The car, viewers of the three previous movies may recall, belongs to Frank Martin, an ex-military operative who rakes in euros helping criminals with getaways and other high-stakes errands.Īs previously embodied by Jason Statham, Frank was an ace driver and brawler always annoyed at having to ruffle one of his perfectly pressed shirts. In “ The Transporter Refueled,” a reboot of the French producer Luc Besson’s action series, the main returning cast member is a souped-up Audi.
