After being started as a franchise that sought to teach James Bond how to kick butt, in the post kick-butt Bond reboot, Transporter 3 now seeks to head towards a darker, gloomier ground uncharitably dumping the very gleefully mad and frantic tone that made the franchise great popcorn fun.
When Frank (Jason Statham) passes on a job, his recommended alternate is killed by the dastardly Johnson (Robert Knepper), and he is coerced into accepting the job of transporting Valentina (Natalya Rudakova), the kidnapped daughter of the head of the EPA in Ukraine. Only, this time he has a bomb a....