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Roger Ebert noted the rarity of leading ladies who are heavily freckled. He paid for 25 acting lessons over a six-month period, and brought her to audition in Paris, before she received the role. Natalya Rudakova was spotted by Luc Besson on the street as she hurried to her job at a New York City hair salon.

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Michel Neugarten as Assassin Driver – Sergei.Natalya Rudakova as Valentina Tomilenko.Valentina, who is in the boat with them, suggests they eat out at a nearby restaurant instead. The cargo ship is raided by police and sent away from Ukrainian shores.įrank and Tarconi return to fishing in Marseilles, still unsuccessful. Upon hearing from Tarconi that Valentina is safe, Tomilenko tears up the Ecocorp contracts before heading for his business conference. Johnson breaks free, but is inevitably blown into pieces inside of the cab Frank reunites with and kisses Valentina in the rubble. He takes out all of Johnson's men but cannot touch Johnson because he is too far from his car.Īfter Johnson separates the train cabs, Frank jumps his car into the cab, and beats Johnson, strapping him with the bracelet and sending his car, which Johnson is restrained to, into reverse. After Tarconi and the Ukrainian police retrieve Frank and the Audi, Frank continues his chase and jumps the car on top of the train containing Johnson and his men. Frank drives off the bridge into the lake, fooling Johnson into believing that he is dead, but survives by using the air from the car's tires to inflate a buoying device.Īboard the train, Johnson lets Tomilenko talk to Valentina and gives him 15 minutes to sign the contract. Although Valentina is delivered to Johnson and her bracelet removed, Johnson's men shoot at Frank's car. Johnson redirects him to Odessa, where he and his men surround them on a bridge.

Valentina, who is revealed to be Tomilenko's daughter, explains that she was drugged in Ibiza and was transported by Malcolm in order for Johnson to blackmail her father. She then seduces Frank by holding his car keys, resulting in them having sex. After opening the package in the trunk, Frank realizes Valentina is the real package. One of Johnson's men steals the Audi with Valentina inside, leaving Frank to chase him down by bicycle and retrieve them both.Īfter Frank and Johnson agree to call it even, Johnson sends him to Bucharest, but Frank and Valentina are chased by a black Mercedes-Benz E-Class driven by Tomilenko's agents. In Budapest, Johnson tells Frank that he's fired. While Tarconi researches into Johnson's motivations, Frank goes off-course, visiting a garage to try to deal with the bracelet, but as he fends off Johnson's men, his mechanic friend Otto cannot disarm the device on the car. Tomilenko negotiates to postpone signing Ecocorp's agreement that would allow the ship with the chemicals into his country. Johnson places an explosive bracelet on Frank, forcing him to take a package and the woman, Valentina, to Budapest.

Frank is then knocked out by one of Johnson's henchmen. Frank rushes outside, but the ambulance, getting out of range, explodes and kills Malcolm. As paramedics take away Malcolm, Frank discovers a woman in the back seat of the Audi who warns him not to take her from the car – she shows him a metal bracelet she and Malcolm have been wearing which explodes if it gets too far from the vehicle. While Tarconi returns to headquarters to give Frank's alibi, in Odessa, Ukraine, the Environmental Agency Minister, Leonid Tomilenko, receives a threat from Ecocorp boss Johnson to reopen business negotiations.Īt night, the Audi crashes into Frank's home, with a wounded transporter, Malcolm Melville, whom Frank had referred when he declined a previous job. Frank Martin, having returned from Miami to the French Riviera, is unsuccessfully fishing with his friend, Inspector Tarconi when Tarconi receives a call about a black Audi A8 that sped past French customs and evaded the police in a car chase.