<table> </table> The &#8220;Transporter&#8221; series turned Brit actor Jason Statham into a movie star.</p><p>But maybe it&#8217;s time to hang up his car keys. He&#8217;s better than this.</p><p>&#8220;Transporter 3&#8221; once again finds Statham playing Frank Martin, a driver for hire known throughout the underworld for always completing his job.</p><p>This time Frank finds himself kidnapped by a sinister American (Robert Knepper) and forced to tour Europe with an exploding bracelet around his wrist. If he strays too far from his car he&#8217;ll blow up.</p><p>Meanwhile he must follow the instructions transmitted to him by cell phone and try to get along with his passenger, a bratty Ukrainian redhead named Valentina (Natalya Rudakova, giving what may be the year&#8217;s most irritating performance).</p><p>Valentina&#8217;s papa is a government bigwig in environmental protection; the bad guys have kidnapped Valentina to force the old man to sign a deal allowing them to bring tankers filled with radioactive waste into the country.</p><p>There are a few decent moments here &#8212; at least when improbably named director Olivier Megaton slows down the action enough that we can see some of the feats performed by the stunt drivers.</p><p>Too often, though, &#8220;Transporter 3&#8221; is empty Eurotrash, with rapid-fire editing that turns everything into a blur.</p><p>Things aren&#8217;t helped by the awful dialogue, spoken by a cast of European actors who have been badly dubbed. Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen&#8217;s screenplay seems to have been written in another language and carelessly translated into English.</p><p>&#8220;Transporter 3&#8217;s&#8221; sole reason for existing is to bask in Statham&#8217;s wryly manly aura. The film clearly recognizes that he&#8217;s become a sex symbol, wasting no opportunity to get his shirt off so that the camera can run its lens up and down his impressive abs.</p><p>Frank even has developed a fighting style in which he turns his clothing into weapons, leaving him sweaty and half-naked by the time he has improbably vanquished a dozen leather-jacketed thugs.</p><p>Statham has a strong screen presence and exudes a working-class intelligence that can be affable or menacing. Wish he&#8217;d find some projects that allowed him to put those qualities to better use.</p><p><hr class="infobox-hr-separator" /> <div class="infobox"> <strong><span class="infobox-head">&#8216;TRANSPORTER 3&#8217; &#9733;&#9733; </span></strong><br /> <strong>Director: </strong>Olivier Megaton</p><p><strong>Cast: </strong>Jason Statham (left), Natalya Rudakova, Robert Knepper</p><p><strong>Rated: </strong><strong>PG-13</strong> for sequences of intense action and violence, some sexual content and drug material </p><p><strong>Running time:</strong> 1:40</p><p></div>