Crank

Lions Gate Films | Release Date: September 1, 2006

4.7	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 365 Ratings

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Tss5078May 26, 2014

Chev Chelios is arguably Jason Statham's best known character and Crank is arguably his best known film, but it is far from his best film. Chev Chelios (Statham) is a gun for hire, who will work for anyone who can pay him. One day he wakes upChev Chelios is arguably Jason Statham's best known character and Crank is arguably his best known film, but it is far from his best film. Chev Chelios (Statham) is a gun for hire, who will work for anyone who can pay him. One day he wakes up in a daze and finds a video in which a former employer tells him, that he poisoned him with a rare adrenaline inhibitor, which will kill him in a few hours. Chelios goes out seeking revenge, but must keep his adrenaline pumping, in order to slow the poison down. It's a strange story, but as usual, Statham is terrific, playing his most extreme character. Chelios is a crazy man who goes to extremes, however that's all this film has to offer. Non-stop action can sometimes be fun, but when it's the same thing repeating over and over again for 90 minutes, even the biggest action fan gets tired of it. Statham is paired with Amy Smart who starred in my favorite movie of all-time, The Butterfly Effect, and surprisingly she was terrible! She plays Chelios's girlfriend, a girl who is as dumb as dirt and who follows this crazy man blindly through the city on his hunt for revenge. Crank has some humor and a terrific leading man, but unfortunately, there isn't much of story. Besides Statham's well known one-liners and his ridiculous moves, there is really nothing to see here. Crank is one of those films that starts out strong and then just never goes anywhere. Having seen a lot of Statham's movies lately, I was hoping his best known film would be his most exciting, but it wasn't. It's the same scene repeated many times over, and I was tired of it after a half hour.… Expand

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MarickMay 9, 2015

A pretty interesting movie, but a little strange .

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ryancarroll88Aug 27, 2010

On one hand, you have to admire the filmmakers for keeping up with such a crazy storyline (almost to the point of Loony-Tunes cartoon-making), but on the other hand you have to question the necessity of having such an adrenaline chargedOn one hand, you have to admire the filmmakers for keeping up with such a crazy storyline (almost to the point of Loony-Tunes cartoon-making), but on the other hand you have to question the necessity of having such an adrenaline charged "plot" to start with. Either way, it's a 1984-esque foyer into the desensitized future of film-making, so you better enjoy the ride while it lasts....… Expand

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Voodoo123May 20, 2019

+Basically its Gta the movie
+Excellent cast elevate the weak screenplay
+Great sense of physically moving from location to location with Chelios +Action sequences have a great deal of fun with the concept -Ridiculous 'story' -The film never+Basically its Gta the movie
+Excellent cast elevate the weak screenplay
+Great sense of physically moving from location to location with Chelios
+Action sequences have a great deal of fun with the concept
-Ridiculous 'story'
-The film never fully commits in tone and so borders on parody

Crank at its best is a guilty pleasure that ALMOST becomes the classic action film it wants to be but just misses the bar by a few inches.… Expand

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ShawnP.Mar 20, 2007

Braindead male fantasy that steals freely from "Run Lola Run"-but never dull.

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MarkB.Oct 9, 2006

This deliberately over caffeinated crime saga about a drug dealer (Jason Statham) who's doped up with a substance that will kill him if he sleeps, rests or even sits down for too long, so he has to keep his adrenaline way up while This deliberately over caffeinated crime saga about a drug dealer (Jason Statham) who's doped up with a substance that will kill him if he sleeps, rests or even sits down for too long, so he has to keep his adrenaline way up while finding and taking revenge upon the culprit, borrows plot and thematic elements from both Speed (ironic, eh?) and the 1949 Edmond O'Brien film noir D.O.A., but otherwise we're in Wannabe Tarantino-land once again. At least, unlike this year's other prime example of such, Lucky Number Slevin, this thing MOVES and doesn't have a leading man who's D.O.A. in and of himself...but as Leonard Maltin wisely said of The Last Days of Frankie the Fly, the price we pay for Pulp Fiction keeps getting higher and higher. Statham (The Transporter, Cellular) is tremendously effective and as compelling to watch as Bob Hoskins was in The Long Good Friday, similarly playing a criminal kingpin whose empire is spinning out of control, and Jose Pablo Castillo matches his performance, but this movie--which also features Just friends' Amy Smart in a demeaning role as Statham's girlfriend that completely betrays the actress's name--is as relentlessly headache-inducing (visually and aurally) as being stuck in a video-game arcade with a massive hangover and no aspirin. And even though I own ten years of National Lampoon magazine and am therefore nearly impossible to offend, damned if this flick didn't feature one bit that did it for me: Statham appropriates a cab from its Middle Eastern driver by yelling "Al-Qaeda! Al-Qaeda!" and getting a mob to beat the crap out of the hapless soul. Well, I live near a city in which a Sikh was murdered right after 9/11, so please excuse me if something less ethereal and more solid than laughter jets out of my mouth.… Expand

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TelyS.Oct 5, 2006

Crank comes across like the demented daydream of an ADD teen; it

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TyS.Oct 29, 2006

The pace and energy are certainly high but the sheer absurdity of the situations Chev finds himself in had me rolling my eyes. If you want to watch a movie which perfectly displays this kind of genre then check out Running Scared. Now that The pace and energy are certainly high but the sheer absurdity of the situations Chev finds himself in had me rolling my eyes. If you want to watch a movie which perfectly displays this kind of genre then check out Running Scared. Now that was an AWESOME MOVIE !!!!!!… Expand

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