Crank (2006)

Crank (R)

"Crank it up!"

Jason Statham is Chelios, a loveable former L.A. hitman that receives a lethal dose of "the Chinese Shit," a poison that is slowing down his heart and slowly killing him unless he can keep moving, keep running, keep his heart lurching as he speeds around town on the bend for revenge and trying to keep his stoner girlfriend safe in directors Neveldine/Taylors wild entertaining freshman effort Crank, an action comedy that is a nonstop all-downhill rollercoaster with the brakes removed and the operator on seriously messed up drugs as the camera zooms and distorts, the filmmaker's love of video games and action movie quips apparent even as they reinvent the genre with so many so-over the top moments it will make your grandchildren's grandchildren blush even as they cheer the amazing mishmosh of music and kinetic camera work nailed to a razor thin plot that not only trumps action film classics in speed and versatility, but does it smartly like Tarantino with a coke hangover for even when you think you have this film figured out it finds other gears, other fumes to huff as it blasts and lampoons itself with a gregarious finale that not only delivers on it's premise of leaving Chelios, but leaves the audience hopelessly hooked on exotic junk that they have little hope of finding again.

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