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The Transporter

The Transporter

Rules are made to be broken.

20021h 32m6.7

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.

IMDB
Share:
6.7/10
Rating
6,004
Votes
$21.0M
Budget
$43.9M
Revenue

In the Series

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 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.

The first film
Where it sits in the series

It is the film that started the series, 6 years before the most recent entry, Transporter 3 (2008).

43%
Share of the series audience

Its 6,004 TMDB ratings are 43% of the 13,866 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 September 2026.

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