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Director :<\/strong> Mark Neveldene, Brian Taylor
\nCast :<\/strong> Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam, <\/strong>Jose Pablo Cantillo, Carlos Sanz, Efren Ramirez, Keone Young, Reno Wilson.
\nYear of Release : <\/strong>2006
\nLength :<\/strong> 87 Minutes
\nSynopsis:<\/strong> A professional hitman (Statham) is given a dose of a lethal poison that threatens to stop his heart unless he keeps producing adrenaline. In order to find the cure, he must find the people who did this too him, and find a way to save himself.
\nReview :<\/strong> Loud, obnoxious film presses all the right buttons at all the right times. Stunning lowbrow action thriller manages to keep your interest in the same way that the film about a bomb on a bus did: keep the action going the entire time, and push the limit of logic and common sense out the way. Fun, exorbitant filmmaking with a crude, sly sense of humour.<\/p>\n

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Jason Statham is one of those guys who would appear on the surface to be the next major action star, in a similar vein to Stallone or van Damme (no, he\u2019s certainly no Schwarzenegger!) and his film career seems built on the one persona he has \u2013 charming, bullish cop\/detective\/thug who takes no crap from anybody.<\/p>\n

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Since Snatch<\/em> came out and made a star of Statham, he\u2019s never looked back. Even the trash he\u2019s appeared in over the years have still been mildly entertaining just from his appearance in them.<\/p>\n

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I knew you were there, man, I was just screwin’ with ya!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Crank,<\/em> one of the lesser known action films in recent years, is a diamond in the rough. Violent, over-the-top and utterly<\/em> ridiculous, manages to straddle the line between the sublime and the stupid, coming in somewhere around \u201ccool\u201d. Statham plays a hitman, who is injected with a Chinese cocktail of drugs that block the adrenal glands and stop his heart. The only way to prevent his own demise is to keep pumping adrenaline out: which means he has to go hard almost the entire time. Imagine trying to keep your adrenaline up for a whole day. It\u2019s pretty intense, and makes for a great little concept film that rocks.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the conceit of the film is that Statham goes on an extended action sequence in order to keep his adrenaline pumping, with shootouts, car chases, fight scenes, sex scenes and other clich\u00e9 action beats filling in the film\u2019s running time. It\u2019s kind of like Speed<\/em>, just with the \u201cbomb on the bus\u201d inside Stathams chest. The villains are as wooden as you\u2019d expect, Statham snarling and growling his way through the basic script, but for some reason the whole film is actually quite a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

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The energy directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor bring to proceedings is infectious, if slightly undercooked in its execution: yet the frenetic pacing precludes any kind of breathing space as Statham races around like a madman to stay alive. Of course, it\u2019s only after the film ends that you can look at it objectively. As the film builds and builds, reality goes out the window; the finale is pure<\/em> film entertainment, without one shred of credibility: it\u2019s still in keeping with the style of the film, however, and you\u2019re ready to forgive the filmmakers a little poetic license.<\/p>\n

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Always look on the bright side of life…. eh?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Crank<\/em> is one hell of an enjoyable film, if slightly over-the-top. The directors use every<\/em> style of film they can, bleached, blurry, washed out, hyper-real: it\u2019s harkens back to early Oliver Stone stuff, and it\u2019s great to watch. The visual effects, while minimal in use, are effective in helping create the supercharged world the film exists in. It\u2019s funny, violent action that never once takes itself seriously, and if you don\u2019t get one laugh out of it then you\u2019d better check your pulse.<\/p>\n

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Definitely not a kids film, Crank<\/em> is one of the most energetic films I\u2019ve seen in ages, and personally, I cannot wait for the sequel.<\/p>\n

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