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I know someone in Hollywood got a hold of a concept for a video game called \u201cCrank,\u201d and thought that this was too good to be some stupid old video game. So, they made it into a movie. Because \u201cCrank\u201d is essentially set up like a video game. Our hero gets up, watches a video that lays out the plot, and now he has to find the people who wronged him. In order to stop the poison, get epinephrine.<\/p>\n
Level two: Get Epinephrine. Find the villain\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n
Level three: Find him and fight him. Keep your heart rate up.<\/p>\n
Level Four: Steal a police cycle and drive as fast as you can before your heart slows down; avoid pedestrians and environment. The mob is after you now that you\u2019re alive and may go after your girlfriend.<\/p>\n
Level Five: Get your girlfriend out of her apartment, without getting her killed.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s blatant, and ridiculous, and formulaic, but I had a good time. \u201cCrank\u201d is very much like \u201cSpeed\u201d except with a human body as a bomb. Chevy has just awoken to discover his body has been injected by a rival gang with a poison that, if his heart stops beating fast, will kill him. This is not only the plot, but it gives the movie an excuse to be fast paced and without much characterization. \u201cCrank\u201d is so bad that it\u2019s good, and that\u2019s because of Statham\u2019s entertaining turn as a mobster who just had the worst revenge committed on him. What do you not do to get back at a psychotic mobster? Fill him with adrenaline.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s the worst mistake his rivals commit when they pump him with a poison that will kill him if he doesn\u2019t keep going. And most of the film is Chevy\u2019s journey to keep his heart pumping, and boy do the methods get creative! \u201cCrank\u201d doesn\u2019t have much of a plot, it\u2019s merely just a sequence of events that resemble a plot in which our hero Chevy must roam around the city causing rampage to keep his heart beating, and in turn it helps him live his life, and face what might happen if he doesn\u2019t get the antidote\u2026 if there is one.<\/p>\n
Statham seems to be having a good time kicking ass and destroying property, while the direction from Mark Neveldine, and Brian Taylor is utterly chaotic. The direction never calms down because the movie never calms down and brings about some utterly hilarious situations that you\u2019ll get a kick out of, if you don\u2019t put too much stock into what you\u2019re watching. I had a blast at this good bad film, and Statham comes through once again. Statham\u2019s newest is possibly one of the worst, but one of the funniest movies I\u2019ve seen in a long time. It\u2019s trashy, gory, gratuitous, ridiculous, completely far-fetched, and I had a smile on my face the entire time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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