Storyline
Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.
Directors
Cast
Rick Shuster, Jason Statham, Noel Gugliemi, Samuel Witwer, Edi Gathegi, David Brown, Reno Wilson, Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Keone Young, Glenn Howerton, Chester Bennington, Jai Stefan, Dan Callahan, Jay Xcala, Carlos Sanz, Valarie Rae Miller, Yousuf Azami, Laurent Schwaar, Dorian Kingi, Med Abrous, Daniel Stevens, Wally Lozano, Eve Loseth, Eve Loseth, David T. Green, Allen Bloomfield, Stephanie Mace, Michael McLafferty, Earl Carroll, Brian Swibel, Donnie Smith, Sean Graham, Daniel Venegas, Francis Capra, Frank Blake, Mike G., Ken Moreno, Troy Robinson, Eddie Perez, Justin Riemer, Peter Choi, Elizabeth Jayne Hong, Toshi Toda, Jacki R. Chan, Ted Garcia
Trailer
Reviews
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
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.
