The Transporter Refueled is the fourth entry in a French-made action series that originally sprang from the reality-averse mind of producer Luc Besson, so one expects it to satisfy at least requirement (b). It does, but not nearly often enough to clear the bar set earlier this summer by two better examples of automotive surrealism: Furious 7 and Mad Max: Fury Road. For each deliriously silly action sequence, Refueled offers long scenes of tired genre conventions played straight.

And that's the problem with a surfeit of cartoonish films: Once you've seen a flying car punch holes in three skyscrapers, or a dude named Coma the Doof Warrior rock out with a flame-throwing guitar atop a speeding vehicle, you get a little jaded. It takes