Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
The car that Frank drives is an Audi A8 a with a six-liter W12 engine. The engine is derived from the Bentley Continental GT. The W12 engine was made by Volkswagen.
Johnson:
You've disappointed me.
Frank Martin:
You won't be the first, and you won't be the last. I told you I wanted to do this in person.
Johnson:
That won't be necessary. You see, since we had our little chat at the beginning of the mission, I've been thinking I don't need the ...
Near the end of the film, when Leonid Vasilev is close to joining the environmental congress that is going on in Odessa, one of the signs promoting the upcoming lecture is shown: 'European Union Lecture On Environemental Studies'. This should of course be 'Environmental'.
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