Human trafficking is, of course, a monstrously unpleasant and tragic subject. Modeling themselves after the Three Musketeers (they even keep a library copy of Dumas’ book conspicuously lying around their hideout, in case their hostages should miss the homage) the girls turn out to be former child sex slaves of Monaco’s reigning Russian pimp (Radivoje Bukvic), and their string of robberies are part of an elaborate plot to take revenge on him and his henchmen (which include Lenn Kudrjawizki and Yuri Kolokolnikov, the latter looking uncannily like Dutch soccer star Wesley Sneijder inflated far beyond his recommended psi). In the midst of a subsequent city-wide chase, Frank soon learns that the girls have a fourth co-conspirator (Tatiana Pajkovic) who is holding his father captive, and will kill him unless Frank guides them through a series of follow-up heists over the next several hours. When Frank shows up for his scheduled pickup outside a bank, Anna and her two identically dressed, identically blonde-wigged compatriots (Gabriella Wright, Wenxia Yu) emerge, holding Frank at gunpoint when he tries to call off the job. (And judging by the frequency with which he seems to get kidnapped, not a moment too soon.)įather and son are enjoying some R&R in Monaco when Frank gets a new client for his clandestine courier service: a femme fatale named Anna (Loan Chabanol). ( Ray Stevenson), a self-professed salesman who has not-so-secretly just retired from espionage work.
Fortunately, Frank is ultimately a passenger on this particular ride, with the real attractions being the crashes, the physics-defying brawls, and the nonstop, almost endearingly shameless product placements, with Evian, American Express and especially Audi getting as much screentime as the film’s nominal star.Īlso, photocopying several pages from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” the film joins Frank with his vinegary father, Frank Sr.
Attempting to make up in pursed-lipped handsomeness what he lacks in charisma and hulking machismo, Skrein isn’t exactly a like-for-like replacement.
With longtime star Jason Statham sitting this one out, Ed Skrein (“Game of Thrones”) takes on the role of Frank Martin, the fastest, fightingest Uber driver in Europe.
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