Crank (2006)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 92
Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 36
It's a film about a guy injected with Speed... wait, there's no bus. It's a film about a guy who has to kick a bunch of squirmy butt to stay alive... wait, no snakes or planes here. But it is a film about doing lots of drugs and pulling lots of punches, and it entertains accordingly.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 11
It's a film about a guy injected with Speed... wait, there's no bus. It's a film about a guy who has to kick a bunch of squirmy butt to stay alive... wait, no snakes or planes here. But it is a film about doing lots of drugs and pulling lots of punches, and it entertains accordingly.
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Movie Info
A one-time freelance hitman who was just attempting to turn his life around is forced to keep his heart pumping when his vengeful former employers inject him with a lethal poison that will permanently stop his ticker if his pulse sinks beneath an active rate in a non-stop urban action extravaganza starring Jason Statham and Amy Smart. Chev Chelios (Statham) was one of the most skilled assassins in the West Coast crime syndicate. When he hung up his guns in the middle of a job to run off with his
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Cast
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Jason Statham
Chev Chelios -
Amy Smart
Eve -
Jose Pablo Cantillo
Verona -
Efren Ramirez
Kaylo -
Dwight Yoakam
Doc Miles -
Carlos Sanz
Carlito -
Reno Wilson
Orlando -
Edi Gathegi
Haitian Cabbie -
Glenn Howerton
Doctor Ankleson -
Jay Xcala
Alex -
Keone Young
Don Kim -
Valarie Rae Miller
Chocolate -
Yusef Azami
Arab Cabbie -
Laurent Schwaar
Man in Garage -
David Brown
Sin City Brother -
Dorian Kingi
Convenience Store Cl... -
Med Abrous
Verona Crew -
Dan Stevens
Verona Crew -
Wally Lozano
Verona Crew -
David T. Green
Hightower -
Eve Loseth
Restaurant Waitress -
Allen Bloomfield
Pharmacy Man -
Stephanie Mace
Pharmacist -
Chester Bennington
Pharmacy Stoner -
Michael McLafferty
Hospital Cop -
Earl Carroll
Stretcher Patient -
Brian Swibel
Hospital Tech -
Donnie Smith
Hospital Tech -
Sean Graham
Motorcycle Cop -
Dan Callahan
TV Store Guy -
Noel Guglielmi
Warehouse Rooftop Ho... -
Daniel Venegas
Warehouse Window Hoo... -
Francis Capra
Warehouse Hood Leade... -
Frank Blake
Warehouse Hood 1 -
Michael J. Gonzalez
Warehouse Hood 2 -
Ken Moreno
Hood 3 -
Troy Robinson
Hood 4 -
Eddie Perez
Hood 5 -
Justin Riemer
Hood 6 -
Peter Choi
Shirt Factory Superv... -
Elizabeth Jayne Hong
Bus Girl -
Toshi Toda
Japanese Businessman -
Sam Witwer
Shootout Henchman -
Jai Stefan
Shootout Henchman -
Jaclyn Chan
Cocoon Girl -
Rick Shuster
Helicopter Pilot -
Ted Garcia
TV Reporter -
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All Critics (95) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (36) | DVD (16)
It's a promising concept, but instead of expending effort on, say, a coherent script, the filmmakers lazily rely on cheap editing tricks and gleefully relentless sadism.
Top CriticLeave it alone, or leave your brain and pocket change at the gate, strap yourself in and just enjoy the ride.
For those who enjoy this brand of wholly mindless entertainment, Crank delivers.
Jason Stratham rampages through Los Angeles in this retread of Speed, but for a movie premised on unrelenting action, Crank proves fatally turgid.
The movie is cranked up somewhere between stylish and proudly stupid.
While Crank has its moments, the line stringing them together isn't wound taut enough.
It's trashy, gory, gratuitous, ridiculous, completely far-fetched, and I had a smile on my face the entire time.
Gets by on a unique kind of absurd, deadpan humor in which the most implausible stuff cheerfully happens anyway.
Sure, Crank is totally ridiculous, unbelievable, exhausting, and pretty much just plain stupid, but that's what makes it fun.
Ranks among the most mindless action films ever made, but scores as a helluva video game.
The super-concentrated silt at the bottom of a chemistry experiment that has no possible purpose to it but to deliver whatever limited jolt of which it's capable.
Its freneticism ... futilely tries to cover up the ludicrousness of every decision made by its dim characters.
Assaults the senses tirelessly with wave after wave of momentum-building intensity, with Jason Statham enjoying his best role since The Transporter.
You might just want to catch a matinee or wait for the DVD. This is definitely not worth your 10 bucks.
Adrenalina é de uma idiotice contagiante.
Some of the directing touches are fun, but the Grand Theft Auto overdrive wears thin quick.
Safety advice: remember to breathe when you're watching this movie.
The most fun I've had at the movies all year.
There are times the film threatens to turn into a good "bad movie."
'D.O.A.' for the 'Grand Theft Auto' generation, 'Crank' is too scattershot to hone in on the cult masterpiece waiting within its brilliant exploitation premise.
A cheerily lunatic slice of B-movie heaven.
At times, Crank is loads of fun and threatens to enter that golden territory of so-bad-it's-good, but the violence grows far too ugly and is so unrelenting that it becomes tiresome.
Crank works overtime to be a disreputable bit of pulp fiction, and for the first half or so it's like inhaling the cinematic equivalent of the film's title.
Demented, depraved and probably bad for your soul in the long run, the pedal-to-the-metal action film "Crank" nonetheless provides a jolt of pure, uncut movie-making.
Audience Reviews for Crank
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Movies Like Crank
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- Chev Chelios: How'd you like that one, tough guy? How fricking awesome was that, huh?
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- Warehouse Hood 1: Chev you should crawl into a dark corner and do us all a favor an die.
- Chev Chelios: What you think I have the word 'cunt' wrote on my forehead?
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- Doc Miles: [to Chev] If you stop you die.
- Chev Chelios: [to store clerk] If you move you die.
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