The old man is the only interesting element in the movie: Everyone else is so busy trying to be cool and sexy that they forget to breathe. This isn’t the father’s first rodeo, so when he’s poisoned and learns he has 12 hours or so to live, he settles down with some vodka and sets to work seducing one of his sexy captors. (Ray Stevenson, the movie’s most enjoyable presence). To keep Frank motivated, they kidnap his secret-agent dad, Frank Sr.

Ed Skrein Bruno Calvoĭoing so will involve many pauses for clubbing, sipping Champagne and posing in fabulous frocks and wigs: In their secret hideout, each girl has a rack of designer ready-to-wear that they fuss with the way Frank loves his Audis. In a swank hotel on the Riviera, a shady beauty hires him on a mission, the details of which he’d rather not know: She, Anna (Loan Chabanol), is an unwilling prostitute who, along with three other sex slaves, wants to clean out the bank accounts of, and then murder, their gangster-pimp Yuri (Yuri Kolokolnikov). Now the role is filled by Skrein (“Game of Thrones”), who brings ragged features, a shopkeeper’s accent, a single facial expression (mild pout) and just as many tones of voice. The original Transporter - driver - was played impeccably by Jason Statham, who makes otherwise-bad movies more than watchable. Instead, in a relaunch of the so-so “Transporter” franchise - turn-of-the-century nostalgia time! - the mysterious driver/kung fu fighter Frank Martin (Ed Skrein) is hired to drive around a few pissed-off prostitutes seeking revenge against their gangster pimps. If only the movie were as fast and streamlined. “The Transporter Refueled” is a story of bodies: sleek, curvy, luscious bodies, purring for action and ready to let you do anything to them. Rated PG-13 (action violence, sexual material, profanity, disturbing elements).

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