Unfortunately - in this department at least - Refueled has lost a bit of the franchise’s luster. In the film’s defense, it’s not like this drastic switch in actors is all that jarring in a film universe that’s revealed in its own goofy absurdity. And in all honesty, what difference does the change make (really, who knows who Frank Martin is anyway?) Statham has been replaced by Ed Skrein ( The Sweeney), a much less imposing or charming version of Frank Martin, although - to an extent at least - he’s able to hold his own in this wise-cracking action-hero role. This was Statham’s role, one that wasn’t written out of this fourth installment, but instead simply recast - with someone 15 years younger and about 50 pounds lighter, not to mention with a full head of hair.

Oddly, the franchise hasn’t been rejiggered all that much, as Refueled still centers around our titular tough guy, private driver and ex-mercenary Frank Martin. But here we are with The Transporter Refueled, the latest installment - some seven years after Olivier Megaton’s Transporter 3 - a film that, for some reason exists in spite of the absence of the only recognizable aspect of the franchise, Statham. Still higher is a fourth Transporter film that doesn’t even have Jason Statham in it. But there are degrees of pointlessness and superfluousness, and high up the chart is a fourth Transporter film. If you really want to be especially nihilistic, all movies to some degree are pointless and superfluous.

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