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Crank
This is not good by conventional standards but as you lower your expectations, you begin to like it a little. It definitely doesn’t take itself seriously knowing that the acting and camera work is not top notch.
Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) a hit man finds himself groggy and under some type of drug. He stumbles over to a TV and pops in a DVD that is waiting for him. He watches Verona an enemy of his injecting him with a needle while asleep. The drug he is given will kill him within an hour. Chelios only choice is to keep his adrenaline pumping long enough to pay his enemy back and hopefully find a cure.
The best thing about this film is to see the initial disappointment from the audience turn into laughter after it starts getting crazy.
Loverboy tunes begin blasting as Chev drinks, snorts and injects anything into his system to keep his adrenaline flowing. He drives like a mad man to find his ditzy Jessica Simpson act-alike girlfriend (Amy Smart) before they kill her too.
There a couple of scenes that really stand out like the when Chelios is being chased he trips a guy and yells Alkida, Alkida. The funny part is that you can barely understand what he is saying and a couple of senior citizens start attacking the dude eventually doing some real damage. The other is while in Chinatown he asks his girlfriend to help him get his adrenaline going again by having sex with him on the street. This was pretty funny.
I don’t know if this was a movie or bad dream but after seeing it I felt lazy as this guy did a lot in the little time he had.
C+
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