Crank (DVD)

Just as action hero Clive Owen couldn't resist taking one at himself for failing to secure the Bond tuxedo with the excellent 'Shoot Em Up', Jason Statham has followed suit with Crank. Our Jase is an acquired taste these days and a product of the National Lottery Heritage Fun misspent youth, the Film Council helping to fund an abnormal amount of terrifyingly bad East London crime flicks in the early nineties. Only Guy Ritchie seemed to come out of it with any credit and so there were a lot of unemployed cockney gangster film actors being dropped from the business like their 'aitches'. Since the impressive 'Gangster Number One' and 'Layer Cake', there has been little of ...

I initially rented this DVD as I was quite a bit fan of Jason Statham and I'm still not quite sure if the film was any good or not. The basic plot of the film revolves around "Chev Chelios" (Jason Statham), a Cockney hit man, in America, who has "Chinese" poison injected into his veins which means that he will die as soon as his heart rate drops below a certain rate. Silly storyline, right? Yep, and so are the ways he tries to stay alive, including scenes of mindless violence (which are shot quite well) and sex scenes bordering on the indecent. What makes this film entertaining, in my opinion, is not the plot, but Statham's ...

Suprisingly good movie, the plot is quite normal but its the directing and acting that makes the film stand out, as the synopis says A hit man (Statham) learns that a poison injected into his body will kill him if his heart rate drops slows a certain point. The film is hectic all the time statham is running around like a loon and the camera is doing the same thing, its not tarantino great directing, its very fast paced to the point that you feel tired dizzy and queasy, i would rate it good as a different attempt at directing but i really didnt like it because it was too abrupt, the film plays out like a computer game the camera zoooms in really fast and then the ...