The Transporter - Watch Order: Release Order
The Transporter franchise follows professional driver Frank Martin (Jason Statham), who operates by three simple rules: never change the deal, no names, and never open the package. This complete timeline includes both the original trilogy set in the French Riviera and Miami, combining high-octane car chases with hand-to-hand combat, plus the standalone 2015 reboot featuring a different version of the character.
While the reboot shares only the basic concept and character name with no continuity connection, experiencing both versions provides insight into how action franchises adapt and reinvent themselves.
Linear Timeline: Release Order = Story Order
The Transporter
Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.
Transporter 2
Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.
Transporter 3
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
The Transporter Refueled
The fast-paced action movie is again set in the criminal underworld in France, where Frank Martin is known as The Transporter, because he is the best driver and mercenary money can buy. In this installment, he meets Anna and they attempt to take down a group of ruthless Russian human traffickers who also have kidnapped Frank’s father.
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