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My expectations of Crank were neither high nor low. I guess I was just expecting a typical, entertaining, violent and explosive action film. I did get that but I didn't enjoy it as much as I have done with other entertaining action films. Crank was obviously everything that an action film should technically have but I thought that the story was pretty stupid, it wasn't very well written and the acting was pretty lame. It is a very intense thrill ride that I think could have been improved by a lot.
Jason Statham isn't a very good actor at all, really, but he does fit perfectly within the action genre. His performance as Chev Chelios was pretty crap but he was a very powerful character within action scenes. Chev is a professional hitman who has been poisoned which will kill him. He could go into cardiac arrest if he doesn't keep moving and making his heart move faster. Amy Smart is lame as Eve. She is Chelios' girlfriend who unfortunately gets involved with Chelios path of revenge against Verona who was the man who poisoned him.
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor did a pretty good job as directors of Crank. There were a lot of action scenes where there were a lot of fast and creative movements with the camera which is absolutely typical within an action film. It was obviously a very explosive action film but I thought the script within this film was pretty lame. There were a few good moments and clever lines in some moments of the film but it was mostly very flawed.
Crank is a slightly enjoyable action film that is typical in its own way. Jason Statham is a good actor in his own way like other action actors like Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lungdren and Jet Li (co-stars in The Expendables). Overall, Crank is an entertaining film that does have a lot of flawed things within it.
7/10
