My day to complain about casting firms killing movies. Today’s Dogpile Award to

My day to complain about casting firms killing movies.

Today’s Dogpile Award to Natalie Cheron and Director Camille Delamarre for The Transporter reboot, that manages to take a Luc Besson script and characters, that on paper looks hard to screw up, and ruin it with female leads too clearly stupid to remember their lines, less dress themselves; a male lead who does’t move with the flexible physicality of a cat, but the stiffness a penguin; and unlike Statham is about as believable as a physical threat as my grandmother’s parakeet. Meanwhile they manage to get Roy Stevenson who at worst makes every shot beautiful to look at, to play a role that he is too young for, and his talent and pace sticks out like Nicholson on a low budget sitcom. He can’t carry the movie alone. SO here is a perfectly good combination of budget and script lost entirely over casting.