Transporter 2

...it’s hard to resist when confronted with this seriously screwy sugar-rush of a sequel, which takes a deranged pride in featuring action scenes by Armani, acting by Millets.

...has an ingenious plot that continues to reveal surprises and complications well into the third act; this is not simply a movie where the good guy chases the bad guys, but a movie where the story turns a lot trickier than we expected.

Transporter 2 is lunatic and excessive, but it is painfully elegant, an ideal escapist delirium for end-of-summer, Katrina-tv-weary moviegoers. It’s punishment that looks like pleasure.