Tampa Film Fan

dvd review:crank

When you’ve had a hard day at work and you want to come home, plop down on the sofa with a big pile of junk food and watch a fun, mindless, fast-paced action/thriller that won’t hurt your brain, watch Crank.  Gravelly-voiced Jason Statham (of Transporter and Transporter 2) is a professional assassin who wakes up one day to discover that he’s been injected with a deadly toxin and has only about an hour to live.  The only way to prolong the effects of the poison is to keep his adrenaline levels up through whatever means necessary — caffeine, fast driving, running, sex, cocaine, ephenedrine, you name it.  He uses that hour to search for an antidote and to seek revenge against the Bad Guy who had him injected.

Crank is not socially redeeming in any way, nor is the plot intricate or particularly well-constructed.  But it’s a hell of a ride.

Film Fan Finding: B

DVD Extras:

• Crank’d out mode (commentary by the writers/directors in a pop-up box in the lower right-hand corner)
• family-friendly mode (no profanity)
• music video of song Adrenalina by David Rolas
• previews