Crank [Blu-ray] | ![Crank [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51v5bhB4VBL._SL500_.jpg) | Directors: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Actors: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Efren Ramirez
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  196 reviews
Sales Rank: 10086
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: BR20697
UPC: 031398206972
EAN: 0031398206972
ASIN: B000KHX73U
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: January 9, 2007
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Product Description
PROFESSIONAL ASSASSIN CHEV CHELIOS LEARNS HIS RIVAL HAS INJECTED HIM WITH A POISON THAT WILL KILL HIM IF HIS HEART RATE DROPS.
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Action anti-hero Jason Statham is competing with himself to make the most relentless, non-stop action flick imaginable. In Crank, Statham stars as a hit man named Chev Chelios who's been poisoned by some Chinese toxin; the only way to stave it off is to keep his adrenalin flowing, which requires him to drive at top speeds through crowded traffic, start fights in bars, and run pell-mell down hospital corridors while wearing one of those humiliating smocks that tie in the back. In other words, Crank is high-end pop-trash, filled with many preposterous/ingenious stunts and over-the-top performances (Dwight Yoakam, Sling Blade, is downright droll as a doctor offering Chev assistance), marred by an unpleasant attitude towards women (Amy Smart, Outside Providence, will not look back on this as one of her signature roles). This is a movie for the audience who enjoyed Transporter and Transporter 2 but wanted Statham's perpetual scowl to become a kind of theatrical mask, a perpetual signifier of intensity that begs--nay, demands--that everything around it rise to a mutual level of absurdity. Fans of Luc Besson (Leon/The Professional, District 13) will find Crank to be simpatico. --Bret Fetzer
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 Action Junkie Entertainment February 5, 2010
Payneful
This is definately one of the most entertaining rediculous action movies out there. Once the action starts it doesn't quit until the end. The "over the top" story and fast paced nature of this film gives it more of a comedic sense than your typical action movie. Sure most of the happenings throughout are unlikely or even unrealistic. But it sure is one hell of a ride. I would have given it 4 stars becuase like any movie it has its flaws. But given the nature of this movie and its obvious intentional rediculousness, I will go ahead and give it a 5.
Received Extremely Fast January 25, 2010
J. Rivera (NJ, USA)
My rushed delivery was received in A++ Condition and ontime for Christmas. Thank you!
 Misogynistic, homophobic, racist, violent, dumb, and loud (spoilers) January 8, 2010
Michael J. Tresca (Fairfield, CT USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Definition of the word "crank": [KRANGK]:
1) An unbalanced person who is overzealous in the advocacy of a private cause. Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) is a hitman charged by West Coast Crime Syndicate boss Carlito (Carlos Sanz) with assassinating a rival gang leader, Don Kim (Keone Young). In a fit of revenge, Chelios' rival Ricky Verona (Jose Pablo Cantillo) injects him with a "Beijing Cocktail" while he's sleeping. Verona really, really hates Chelios - the kind of hate that goes beyond simply murdering his foe. The Cocktail will kill Chelios in one hour if he doesn't keep his adrenaline up. As the movie cheerfully explains, there are three ways to keep said adrenaline up: fear, rage, and sex. So Chelios sets out to destroy the man who destroyed him, buying himself just a little more time through a series of increasingly reckless attempts to keep his adrenaline up.
2) A nasal decongestant used illicitly for its euphoric effects. The most obvious, and the first tactic Chelios resorts to, is drugs. He snorts them. He injects them. He snorts them again, all under the orders of his Mafia doc. This may be the first action movie that has a pro-drug message: Hey, at least it's keeping your heart rate up!
3) To increase the volume of an electronic device. Crank is loud. Big, dumb and loud, filled with kicking beats, whip cuts, video game flashes, surreal moments reminiscent of Naked Lunch (Chelios is, after all, under the influence of a great many drugs). Sometimes it's hard to make out what's going on over all the swearing and the explosions. Statham awesome martial arts talents are completely wasted here, with a few punches and a neck-break or two. Even his reputation as a driver is underplayed, although perhaps smashing a car through a mall and landing it on an escalator counts.
What's not quite as cool is the homophobia, misogyny, and racism on full display. Chelios' flamboyantly gay contact Kaylo (Efren Ramirez) doesn't know how to fight even when he tries to help and then gets tortured, all the while being spat on with homophobic slurs. Chelios' girlfriend Eve (Amy Smart) who never picks up her cell phone because she doesn't have one, hangs around her apartment all day stoned out of her mind, and stupidly believes Chelios' claim that he's a video game programmer. Throughout the escalating attacks that Chelios tries to keep from her, Eve blathers on about shopping and her nails and her clothes. When Chelios sexually assaults her (remember that third way to keep his adrenaline up?), Eve gives in. Then they rut in the street before an alternately horrified/curious crowd of Asians. Because apparently it's not as squicky if you do it in front of people of a different race who don't speak the same language as you.
4) To turn and twist; zigzag. Chelios carves a murderous path towards his foe. In the process he picks fights with thugs, robs a convenience store, and hijacks a hospital. But there's a twist, you see: Chelios never KILLED the Tong leader! See? Chelios is actually a nice guy! Shouldn't we forgive him for all the killing and the attempted rape?
Instead of sharing this plot twist at the very last moment, it telegraphs the whole scene much too early. We already know Kim is alive well before the "twist" happens. Which concludes, thankfully, with Chelios grappling Verona as they plunge to their deaths from a helicopter.
4) Bogus; false; phony. But the movie's not over yet. Oh no, not yet. Instead of splattering like a bloody pancake batter when he hits, Chelios BOUNCES off a car, landing in front of the camera, nostrils still flaring, eyes still blinking, as his heart beats once more.
And that's when we know this is a joke. If it wasn't clear, the credits concludes with a badly pixilated video game sequence of Chelios shooting bad guys, picking up power-ups, and his digitized beating heart. So all those drugs Chelios took? Power ups. All those bad guys Chelios killed? Points. That time limit on his heart? That was the time limit on the video game.
Chelios bounced off the car because the movie is a commentary about what a video game in real life might look like. Or rather, what a certain style of video game might look like. Except nowadays, even Grand Theft Auto has more pathos and plot than this tripe.
Crank earns an additional star for the irony. But that doesn't make it a good movie.
 You must be THIS TALL to ride December 13, 2009
Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
There may never have been a faster-paced movie. It's mile-a-minute action from beginning to end.
Rocket-fast, ridiculous, and over the top, Jason Statham is a killer for hire who uses meat clevers while slamming down energy drinks, gets in gun battles while tweaking, and abuses drugs during car chases. Sex in public is nothing and stealing epinephrine from a hospital is almost commonplace. This movie is for the adrenaline junkie and/or speed freak, jamming ten pounds of excitement in a half pound bag.
The premise is simple. Jason Statham gets a lethal injection of a newly created concoction called "The Beijing Cocktail." If he relaxes or slows down too much, his heart will slow down and he'll die. The rest is just Statham getting revenge while attempting to keep his pulse pounding by any means necessary. Regardless of the feasability of the plotline, this movie is a blast. Amy Smart, as Statham's girlfriend, has never looked better. Each successive scene is completelely unpredictably, and the ending is the perfect coup de grace.
Grab the popcorn, shut down the critical analysis portion of the brain, and just put your hands in the air, because that's the only way to enjoy a rollercoaster.
Jason Elin
Rock n Rolla December 3, 2009
Edmonson (Canada)
"Crank" is directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Chelios (Jason Statham) is a hitman who has been injected with a drug that will stop his heart, and the only way to fight the drug is to maintain a high level of adrenaline. Chelios then goes on a rampage hunting down the gangsters who did this to him. This film has a frenetic style of fast clips, and an almost montage style of filmmaking that reminded me somewhat of Oliver Stone's film "Natural Born Killers". Everything about the film is geared towards a hyper-realism. This is a brilliant film that never slows down. Buckle up!
This film is presented with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, and in 7.1 PCM Audio (uncompressed) or 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX Audio in English with Spanish subtitles. The soundtrack is loud and clear and one of the best to test your system with. Crank was filmed with high definition cameras and its high clarity images and knock out color and contrast reflect this.
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