The Transporter
“Rules are made to be broken.”
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.
How The Transporter compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Transporter, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 43%
- Share of the series audience
The Transporter (2002) is the highest-rated of the 3 rated films in The Transporter series, at 6.7/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.4/10.
It is the film that started the series, 6 years before the most recent entry, Transporter 3 (2008).
Its 6,116 TMDB ratings are 43% of the 14,128 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Transporter, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
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