Crank
Year: | 2006 |
Production Co: | Lakeshore |
Director: | Neveldine/Taylor |
Writer: | Neveldine/Taylor |
Cast: | Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam |
Chev (Statham) is a mobster's minion in LA who wakes up to find an enemy of his boss has broken into his house, knocked him unconscious and injected him with a poison that will kill him if he doesn't keep his heart rate up.
A producer of action movies must have seen dollars signs when they gave the pitch; everything dumb teen audiences love about movies, and every cliché of the genre comes hard-wired into the script; sex scenes, driving too fast, chases and shootouts. And they all come handily packaged in a variety of cinematic LA locales; the mobsters pool deck crawling with bikini babes, the downtown titty bar full of gangbangers; they're all here.
Statham builds upon his loud but less-than dramatic reputation and does a fine job of it, and the movie gives you everything it promises in a fairly unexpected way.