THE PLOT:Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is a highly regarded "transporter" in the underworld. He will transport anything, anywhere – no questions asked – for the right price.
He operates by a set of rules:
Never change the Deal.
No names.
Never open the package.
Never make a promise you can't keep.
Frank has been hired to transport a gang of bank robbers who want to avoid being caught by the police: "Three men, 254 kilos". When four bank robbers get in the car, he refuses to move until one of the robbers gets out, holding fast to Rule #1. After one gang member is killed by the others and thrown out of the car, Frank leaves with the remaining robbers. After he delivers them to their destination, they offer to pay him extra to drive further. He refuses, again adhering to Rule #1.
Frank is then hired to deliver a package to an American gangster (Matt Schulze) known only as "Wall Street." While changing a flat tire on the way to Wall Street, he breaks one of his rules and opens the package. It is revealed to be a young woman named Lai (Shu Qi), tied up and gagged. When Frank allows Lai to urinate by the roadside, she escapes, but Frank recaptures her and delivers her as promised. As he leaves, Wall Street hires Frank to transport a briefcase; the briefcase turns out to be a bomb, destroying the car but leaving Frank, who had stopped for a break, unharmed.
Frank returns to the delivery site, injures many of Wall Street's henchmen, steals his car, and takes Lai back to his house, giving her her freedom. She chooses to stay. Local police inspector Tarconi turns up at the door for coffee and confronts Frank about his car, producing a scorched license plate. After Tarconi leaves, Wall Street's henchmen blow up Frank's house. He and Lai escape through an aquatic tunnel.
Later, Lai looks through police records to find Wall Street. She explains that Wall Street is smuggling a large container full of Chinese people, including her father and family. Lai and Frank go to Wall Street's office, where they learn that Lai's father is actually a business associate of Wall Street who is assisting him with the smuggling. The two turn up with henchmen and knock Frank out, but they stop short of killing him when Tarconi arrives and arrests Frank, believing that he has kidnapped Lai. Lai goes with her father.
At the police station, Frank explains the situation to Tarconi, who frees him by pretending to be held hostage. Frank commandeers a boat and searches for the containers and Lai. He finds the container port, but the container has already left. Hijacking a small plane, he tracks down the convoy and jumps onto it, eventually stealing the truck and taking it off the road. Upon parking, he is held at gunpoint by Lai's father, who orders his sole henchman to kill his daughter if she resists. As he leads Frank away to be shot, a lone gunshot sounds, alluding to Lai's death. However, before her father can shoot Frank, Lai appears and shoots her father dead. Tarconi turns up, thanks Frank, and releases the slaves from the container.
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