+ Best Action Movie of the Year + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year
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| Jason Statham leaves a trail of chaos behind him on the poster for Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Crank |
QUICK REVIEW:
Our hero has been poisoned and only has an hour left to live! Naturally, he wants to take revenge! Only with a constant, high level of adrenaline can he keep alive!
Crank is conceptualized in a consistently stressful style, (cinematography by Adam Biddle (Curse of the Phoenix (2014)), which is motivated by its plot. Jason Statham (The Expendables (2010)) is appropriately intense, and Amy Smart (Crank: High Voltage (2009)) makes a good partner for him here. This is arguably Statham's best starring actioner.
Crank is a wild action-comedy with many fun ideas, including a wild score (by Paul Haslinger (Underworld (2003)) and SPOILER the stars screwing in public in Chinatown!
This energetic, fun, crazy movie is the debut of writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. They followed it up with a 2009 sequel and have also directed Gamer (2009) and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011) together. Neveldine has now gone solo to direct the possession horror The Vatican Tapes, which will premiere in a couple of months.
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Cost: 12 mil. $
Box office: 42.9 mil. $
= Big hit
[Crank went #2 in the US in its 10.4 mil. $ opening weekend and ended up grossing 27.8 mil. $ there (65 % of the total gross.) Outside the US, the movie was biggest in Germany (3.3 mil. $/8%), the UK (2.9 mil. $/7%) and Spain (1.6 mil. $/4%).]
What do you think of Crank?
Is it Jason Statham's best starring action movie?
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