Synopsis
Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Jason StathamChev Chelios
- Amy SmartEve
- Jose Pablo CantilloRicky Verona
- Efren RamirezKaylo
- Dwight YoakamDoc Miles
- Carlos SanzCarlito
- Reno WilsonOrlando
- Edi GathegiHaitian Cabbie
- Glenn HowertonDoctor
- Jay XcalaAlex
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
A Saw for the action crowd, this is an intense, stripped-down ride that goes places you’d never expect. Edgy and outrageous, it should get the fearless Statham some deserved attention. - 80
L.A. Weekly
First-time feature directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor play with speed and sound to effectively recreate the buzz of an over-caffeinated all-nighter, delivering one of the year’s best pure junk-food entertainments. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Neveldine and Taylor empty their handbasket of cinematic tricks. They display visual wit, have fun with pop songs, and shoot much of the film in slightly choppy fast-motion ("under-cranked," get it?). - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The 2006 summer movie season went out with a reasonable bang courtesy of Crank, a jacked-up, unapologetically mindless bit of ADD-prescribed escapism that more or less delivers on a nifty premise. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
So blatantly contrived it could be called The Fast and the Spurious, Crank has the small saving grace of being intentionally ridiculous. The action sequences are more notable for their outrageousness than their visceral power. - 63
ReelViews
One could argue that Crank works best as a comedy. It's occasionally funny, and some times VERY funny. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The whole thing whizzes by in such a panicked rush that there's no time for anything so immaterial as character, but what little we do learn about Chev works against the film. - 50
New York Post
Genially preposterous, with stunt players outnumbering actors by something like a 3-to-1 ratio, the action thriller Crank is surprisingly watchable.
