Crank (2006) & Trailer

omg. that's great esp from a newbie directors. I've never expect too much from this flick.
 
They're all reviewing today as they leave the theatres.
 
http://www.movie-list.com/reviews.php?id=crank

[SIZE=+2]Crank[/SIZE]
by Dean Kish

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It seems that Hollywood is still searching for that next great action star. It’s been years since we have seen an action star breakout and claim the prize. I have been saying for years that Jason Statham is the next great action star. I was proven right by both Transporter films. But it seems as if still no one notices.
That brings me to Statham’s latest film, Crank. Statham stars as Chev Chelios, a hitman with all sorts of personal problems including that he has been poisoned by one of his many rivals. To stay alive, Chelios has to keep his adrenaline pumping or he may not be able to get vengeance before he dies. He will do literally anything for an adrenaline fix. Anything!
The film is littered with car chases, fights, crashes and gun battles. The filmmakers make you feel as Chelios does, as he tries to get to the bottom of his murder and say goodbye to the woman (Amy Smart) he loves. It is an adrenaline rush and that’s not the best part. Statham is bold, energetic and full of unrelenting power. Amy Smart’s ditsy blonde love-interest/side-kick to Statham is like oil and water and adds to the films chemistry and humor.


I did have some problems with this bold action film as it did take a lot of liberties with its open styled feel. There are a lot of sequences that made me feel as if the filmmakers had been locked in a room for months playing “Grand Theft Auto”. Then there is also the controversial public-sex scene in Los Angeles Chinatown. The scene was uncalled for but did show how desperate Chelios was to stay alive. The scene is off-putting but light-hearted and has to be seen to be believed. It’s one of the strangest scenes I have seen in a while.
Even in a small film like this Statham still once more proves to me that he is the next great action star. How come no one will listen to me?


(3.5 out of 5) So Says the Soothsayer.
 
I saw it today. It's action like SIN CITY!

NON-STOP ACTION! Never seen a movie quite like this before!
 
I'm seeing this in 2 hours.

..will be back later on to talk about it.
 
Trippiest movie I've ever seen, but man it was awesome. It suffered from some bad CGI but when I looked at it, it fit. This is the only movie I've seen really capture the essence of a video game, even the title in the opening creds was done in classic arcade style with the letters in cheesy retro font and a pixel heart beating.

Seriously. This movie rocks. Some shots are things I've set up in DRIV3R director mode after a rampage of shooting random cars in free ride, was a wicked experience. And the crowd was better than my "meh" Snakes on a Plane crowd, which I saw a day after that release.

Definitely worth a watch if you're into video games or are an action fan or are just looking for something that's f**ked up and random, the humor and non-stop chaos is awesome. Statham running around with a stiffy = pure f**kin' gold. :D
 
one thing i didn't get at the end though

did he actually survive at the end? didn't get that last second, it made it seem like he did
 
^They left it kind of ambiguos (spelling) so the viewer could decide
whether or not Chev lived or died
Anyway i just want to say i was surprised at how ****ing ridiculous this movie was, and I can't wait until someone from the games forum reviews this (MC, meatbag, soccy I'm talking to you).
 
It looked like he died to me. With the sound of his heart stopping.

Not sure what to think of this movie. I got all the GTA stuff and it basically felt like the filmmakers wanted to make a GTA type of movie, even the plot is a kind of generic video game type of plot (even the whole dilemna of being injected with a virus that's killing you is in RE4).

I don't like the druggy trippy style of movies like these. I mean most quality video games I don't find to be drug trippy.
 
anyway i just wanted to say my favorite scenes were
when he was shooting at those people while driving his car and getting a *******
and
when he kicked the taxi driver out of the cab and shouted "Al Queda! Al Queda!" and all those people started kickin the **** out of him
 
If you see the movie stay after the credits for an easter egg.
 
I went into Crank expecting a slick Statham action flick. When the opening credits were being done in 8-bit I was wondering if I was in the right theatre, until the title hit and I relaxed. It starts out in first person just like a videogame maybe would (even smoother than Doom's FPS scene, I can't wait to see future movies where this is taken advantage of), and you can tell something is wrong from the frantic way he's running around. He eventually puts a disc into his DVD player and is informed that he's just been poisoned, along with seeing them give the injection. When Statham screams and smashes that TV and the heavy rock music kicks in I knew I wasn't going to be getting action in the form I expected.

It starts off pretty slow (not literally, more figuratively. I felt it was moving slower than I thought it'd be) and is heavily edited which was disorienting, but as the movie progresses I got adjusted as it got more and more and more and more ridiculous. Things that normally would be on one side of a split screen are projected on walls, side mirrors and ceilings. Words pop up on screen out of sheer randomness. Google Earth is used to track Chelios' location to speed up area to area transitions. But these quirky gimmicks just made it more fun than I thought it would be.

The movie itself. For being 83 minutes it felt more like two hours, but that could be because they managed to fit so much insane stuff into that running time one thing after the other so it never stops moving. And when it does slow down for plot points or a few cab rides or something it's not for long. He does everything you can think of. He speeds when driving, tries some coke, starts a barfight with a bunch of black guys, carries a car chase into a mall, tries to get himself pumped up to "Achy Breaky heart" in the back of a cab, robs a 7/11 of Red Bull and some other snacks, chain-sniffs nasal spray, gets juiced by a defibrillator in search of epinephrine after a pretty intense on foot chase in the hospital and... well, you get the point.

It's a good, funny, trippy action packed movie. Statham gives a fine performance and Amy Smart plays a smaller role than I thought but offers many comedy moments as the ditzy oblivious adorable chick, but also helps Chev Chelios go down in cinematic history as one of the top badasses for shooting and driving in a high speed car chase while getting a *******. Definitely worth your money despite being the most ridiculously unrealistic movie I have ever seen. If you actually read this and it kind of turned you away, go see it but think of it as a videogame because personally, I think it was meant to be filmed like one.

-------------------

K White Honkey, there you go, views from MC. And oh s**t I can't believe I didn't stay after the credits, I gotta go tomorrow. Can you tell me what it is anyway?

As for favorite scenes:

That split second scream Statham does when running out of the elevator after putting the whole syringe of epinephrine into his system. :D
The public sex scene.
The ******* car chase.
The alley fight.
The elevator scene where the chinese guy is talking like other people.
The final shootout. (The grenade specifically)
His last phone call.

I loved the whole movie but those scenes really stuck out.
 
Chev Chelios said:
I went into Crank expecting a slick Statham action flick. When the opening credits were being done in 8-bit I was wondering if I was in the right theatre, until the title hit and I relaxed. It starts out in first person just like a videogame maybe would (even smoother than Doom's FPS scene, I can't wait to see future movies where this is taken advantage of), and you can tell something is wrong from the frantic way he's running around. He eventually puts a disc into his DVD player and is informed that he's just been poisoned, along with seeing them give the injection. When Statham screams and smashes that TV and the heavy rock music kicks in I knew I wasn't going to be getting action in the form I expected.

It starts off pretty slow (not literally, more figuratively. I felt it was moving slower than I thought it'd be) and is heavily edited which was disorienting, but as the movie progresses I got adjusted as it got more and more and more and more ridiculous. Things that normally would be on one side of a split screen are projected on walls, side mirrors and ceilings. Words pop up on screen out of sheer randomness. Google Earth is used to track Chelios' location to speed up area to area transitions. But these quirky gimmicks just made it more fun than I thought it would be.

The movie itself. For being 83 minutes it felt more like two hours, but that could be because they managed to fit so much insane stuff into that running time one thing after the other so it never stops moving. And when it does slow down for plot points or a few cab rides or something it's not for long. He does everything you can think of. He speeds when driving, tries some coke, starts a barfight with a bunch of black guys, carries a car chase into a mall, tries to get himself pumped up to "Achy Breaky heart" in the back of a cab, robs a 7/11 of Red Bull and some other snacks, chain-sniffs nasal spray, gets juiced by a defibrillator in search of epinephrine after a pretty intense on foot chase in the hospital and... well, you get the point.

It's a good, funny, trippy action packed movie. Statham gives a fine performance and Amy Smart plays a smaller role than I thought but offers many comedy moments as the ditzy oblivious adorable chick, but also helps Chev Chelios go down in cinematic history as one of the top badasses for shooting and driving in a high speed car chase while getting a *******. Definitely worth your money despite being the most ridiculously unrealistic movie I have ever seen. If you actually read this and it kind of turned you away, go see it but think of it as a videogame because personally, I think it was meant to be filmed like one.

-------------------

K White Honkey, there you go, views from MC. And oh s**t I can't believe I didn't stay after the credits, I gotta go tomorrow. Can you tell me what it is anyway?

As for favorite scenes:

That split second scream Statham does when running out of the elevator after putting the whole syringe of epinephrine into his system. :D
The public sex scene.
The ******* car chase.
The alley fight.
The elevator scene where the chinese guy is talking like other people.
The final shootout. (The grenade specifically)
His last phone call.

I loved the whole movie but those scenes really stuck out.
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LOL after I saw the movie I knew you would love it, even to the point of making it your new screenname. :daredevilI didn't stay after either, damnit.
 
Chev already gave a nice review, so I won't write up a big review.

I loved how this game was very much like a video game. This movie was great. Do not go expecting to see an Academy Award winning, classy movie, but expect to see a very fun, crazy movie. This film was just as fun as Snakes on A Plane. My theater was great and the people were really in it. It was unrealistic at alot of parts, but not nearly as bad as Transporter 2.

Jason Statham was great, and will probably become the next badass actor in Hollywood. Amy Smart was great, too, but had a smaller role than I expected. She was beautiful, too. :O



...Just go to this movie expecting fun, and if you went and it wasn't fun, lighten up. :)

8/10.
 
Oh man lets list all the videogames Crank reminded you of:
off the top of my head: Grand Theft Auto, Driv3r, Duke Nukem, Half life, Doom, True Crime, Monkey Island (Do i have **** written on my forehead--awesome ****ing reference), Halo, i know there's more...
 
The whole movie was basically a video game. I don't mean metaphorically, I mean literally the beginning credits were someone booting up a game called Crank. Not to mention all the little nods to games during it, especially the picture on the bathroom(old school gamers know who the character was.) ;)
 
At one point in the movie even says he lied when he told his girlfriend that he was a "video game programmer."

Neveldine and Taylor must've seen this movie as an audition for Rockstar to let them do a GTA movie or something.
 
This was such an amazing movie!!! It was funny and had great over the top action!
 
i stayed for parts of the end credits, but i said theres nothing after that so we left, what happened?
 
Saw it tonight great action film another Statham wonder :up:

Whats the bit after the credits i didn`t stay
 
It's basically Crank in old classic days of gaming 2D for ten seconds after the credits. :D
 
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