Some movies are good, some movies are bad, but rarely will you see a movie that can claim the moniker ... "it was so bad it's actually good". Crank is one such movie that lives up to it. It stars Jason Statham as Chev Chelios. Only Statham can play such roles like this with so much conviction that he actually pulls it off by making it believable.
Crank is about our hero Chev Chelios who has had a chinese designer poison pumped into him by some baddies and wakes up grubbily to a video informing him of this unfortunate turn of events. This designer drug has a twist in that if his heart slows down under a certain level he will die. Picture the movie speed's plot but exchange the bus for a man and you have a pretty fair idea of what this movie is about. The movie speeds off from the bang. About the only slow scenes is during the beginning and once the action picks you up by the throat it never lets go until the very end.
Technically side this movie has a lot of jerky hand held camera works which fits in well with the high speed chase scenes and the pacing of the movie.
This movie made it for me because it never took itself seriously. Action scenes are dipped in humor to produce and hour plus of the most entertaining movie I have seen in ages. This is one which you have to leave your brain home to really appreciate. At an age where every cockamimi action movie tries to be a thinking man's piece but falling flat on their faces crank is like a breath of fresh air. Oi Bruckheimer ! Take some notes !
Check out the trailer here :
Scenes to watch out for : You have a gf by your side ... you need to get your heart rate up ... you are in public ... so what do you do ?! ....
7 out of 10 for keeping me well entertained ... is a crank2 on the way ? Bring it on ....
imdb page : Crank ( 2006 )
Crank is about our hero Chev Chelios who has had a chinese designer poison pumped into him by some baddies and wakes up grubbily to a video informing him of this unfortunate turn of events. This designer drug has a twist in that if his heart slows down under a certain level he will die. Picture the movie speed's plot but exchange the bus for a man and you have a pretty fair idea of what this movie is about. The movie speeds off from the bang. About the only slow scenes is during the beginning and once the action picks you up by the throat it never lets go until the very end.
Technically side this movie has a lot of jerky hand held camera works which fits in well with the high speed chase scenes and the pacing of the movie.
This movie made it for me because it never took itself seriously. Action scenes are dipped in humor to produce and hour plus of the most entertaining movie I have seen in ages. This is one which you have to leave your brain home to really appreciate. At an age where every cockamimi action movie tries to be a thinking man's piece but falling flat on their faces crank is like a breath of fresh air. Oi Bruckheimer ! Take some notes !
Check out the trailer here :
Scenes to watch out for : You have a gf by your side ... you need to get your heart rate up ... you are in public ... so what do you do ?! ....
7 out of 10 for keeping me well entertained ... is a crank2 on the way ? Bring it on ....
imdb page : Crank ( 2006 )
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3 comments:
when you figure out what to do you shout at the top of your lungs..."I AM ALIVE~!!!"
Oh, I've seen the trailer before but not the movie... why? Errr.. prolly cos the title not catchy enuff? I'll wait for it to come on HBO/SMV :p
angel : on hbo you won't get the afore mentioned scene ... he he .. sure one.
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