DRIVE AWAY FROM THIS ONE

Former special-ops agent Frank Martin (Ed Skrein) has taken up a new gig as a delivery boy for classified goods. He doesn’t ask questions and he doesn’t get involved. But things begin to spin out of control when he unwittingly gets involved in a bank heist. This film looks action packed — but all those close-call car chases and elaborate fights don’t look like anything we haven’t seen before. The Transporter Refueled opens in wide release Sept. 4.

JAIMIE: Um, this movie looks ridiculous. I can’t wait to see it … on TV, late one night after too many wines so that I can’t really tell how godawful it is.

JAMES: I didn’t think that the Transporter series needed a reboot. I mean, I’ve never actually seen any of them, but it seems like it’s the type of action movie you can just keep remaking without need for tags like “Refueled.” You can just keep cloning it and cloning it. No explanations. No apologies. No nothing.

CHRISTINA: I kind of only vaguely remember even hearing about the original Transporter films, and I am guessing there is a good reason for that.

NICOLE: Ugh, so many cliches. Good guy gets cocky with bad guys and then kicks their asses. I just imagined me and Christina being “transporters.” With our terrible driving skills, we’d be the worst ever.

CHRISTINA: I do wish I had this guy’s driving skills. I’m sure there will be plenty of cool chase scenes, but I really just got the impression that we have seen this all before. I was pretty bored watching this trailer.

NICOLE: I agree. It was boring. The driving was meh, and the fight scenes were meh.

PAIGE: No matter how many times I watch some new, generic and gratuitously violent movie, I am entertained. I love action movies. They are my kryptonite … I still want to watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a film so generic I can’t even remember the trailer. I am the target demographic of generic action films starring generic actors.

JAIMIE: Yeah, (Skrein) was just generic enough that I felt he was maybe familiar, but couldn’t figure out exactly who he was.

CHRISTINA: The plot seems kind of confusing. Those women he picks up, I think they are on some big heist, but it didn’t really explain what they were doing.

JAMES: Here’s my prediction for this movie’s Rotten Tomatoes rating: critics, 38 percent; audience, 60 percent.