"The Transporter"!

I just started watching the beginning of the above titled movie; there is a car chase through Nice in the beginning that's truly preposterous using an E38 as a get-away car.

Unintentionally funny, some of the continuity is laughable; in one scene the wing-mirror is missing, in the next it's miraculously reappeared. Half the time the car has rear headrest the other half they're missing. The main character changes an aftermarket wheel, following a puncture, with an original BMW wheel from the boot; in the next clip the car has its four aftermarket wheels back! 

Don't think I can bear to watch this movie!

Edit: Oh yes, and pressing the keyhole on the back of an E38 does not open the boot!!! Edit edit: Actually maybe it does; I am trying to remember. Does it have the microswitch under the handle? Edit edit edit: OK I stand corrected on this one!

The Transporter is a good laff.  It's not for taking too seriously.

I didn't like the bit where the E38 got blown up.

When I watched it the first time on DVD I couldn't understand why a "735" did not sound like it should like a V8.  Then watching the film with Jason Stratham commentating over it, you are told that the car was a special 750, i.e. a V12 which is why it sounds nowt like a V8.  Supposedly it was special as they had to request a manual 750 from BMW.

The Transporter 2 was on Film 4 on Friday so I watched it and was disappointed to see that the 7 series had been replaced with a, in the words of Top Gear "cock" car, an Audi A8 although it was a W12 engine though.

Andrew

At least there is the very beautiful Shu Qi to look at through most of the film!  

I lusted after a 450SEL 6.9 as a twelve year old! They were a very rare sight in my native Denmark but I remember seeing a brand new, dark blue, one on German plates in western Jutland while on holiday, bliss!

I never said the car-chase in Ronin was plausible, only that the M5 is a more plausible get-away car than an E38.

nn_dd wrote: kdevitt wrote: Sporty1 wrote: kdevitt wrote: larzyh wrote: with a much more plausible get-away car: E34 M5. ...not that plausible, it can't get away from a Pug 405.   It's a 406. Ah well that explains it then... My mind is at rest too

Glad I could be of service......... simply pointing out someones error.

BTW..... it's a movie guys it's not real life.

Russian addition to this list

crime/comedy BUMER E38 750 car is just part of the gangsta movie. brilliant!

crime/comedy BUMER2 E53 X5 Just nice, but not too much action with car.

crime/comedy SHMURKI E34 (Some say it is Pulp Fiction without fancy clothes)    Car is in bad condition, but way they drive it is just so typical in Russia.

Edited : I have to watch "Ronin" - seems like I missed something good...