100 things we learnt from 'The Transporter'
1. If you have a tiny rocket launcher, a couple of machine guns plus a gigantic kickass rocket launcher which can destroy the whole house, shoot them in that order.
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2. Keep a Chinese girl tied up in the boot of your car for hours, get her shot at and nearly kidnapped, and she will make breakfast for you.
3. A car key code is no more difficult to enter while wearing gloves than it is without.
4. Leap a car off a bridge to thump onto a car carrier with a conveniently empty space in the middle (how?) and it will work just as well afterwards
5. Even hardened bank robbers can't handle fast getaways without throwing up
6. Getaway drivers use highly distinctive and very expensive black BMW 7 series instead of souped-up anonymous downmarket cars.
7. After thrashing a BMW 7 Series to within an inch of its life, it is restored to its former glory by a bucket of water.
8. Vomiting inside the car is only bad because Frank reconditioned the leather
9. Frank likes Grease.
10. A man can die by being thrown out the passenger door of a truck and landing at the side of the road.
11. A cop will let an experienced ex-military criminal escape so that he can do his job for him.
12. Cars on the highway are like warheads in T-bone collisions.
13. Lai's father stole Vash the Stampede's revolver.
14. Lai is not a Bond girl.
15. The police knew exactly where Frank would end up after the highway chase, and arrive with a fully armed squad within five minutes.
16. Despite causing the deaths of several people, acted as getaway driver for many robberies, took a cop hostage, hijacked a plane, and had an underwater makeout session with a dead henchman underwater, all of Frank's crimes are nullified because he saved 395 people from a smuggling ring.
17. Parachuting from a plane over a truck going at a high speed, against the wind, and landing on the truck perfectly, is totally possible.
18. Frank enjoys stripping whilst fighting bad guys.
19. Bike pedals are great for kicking people in the face.
20: Locking someone inside a bus that has broken windows on both sides will stop them from trying to kill you.
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21. A person can be knocked out by getting punched at normal speed.
22. The chase - sudden pause - eye contact before fight cliché
23. no names
24. the deal can't be changed
25. never look in the package
26. cropdusters always carry paramilitary style parachutes
27. thugs will be happy to come down to the station, after they've talked to their lawyer first
28. it's easy to make perfect madelines from a book
29. the milk is at the door
30. everything is always so neat with monsieur frank
31. how a man treats his car, is how he treats himself
32. stopping for a snack with two cops in your trunk, can save your life
33. lai began planning this from the moment she saw those photos
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