***SPOILERS*** Hopped up and adrenaline driven remake of the 1949 crime classic "D.O.A" has reformed hit-man Chev Chelios, Jason Statham, turn downtown L.A into a battle zone in his mad rush to get the person who time-delayed murdered him.
When it came back to the person who hired him Verona, Jose Pablo Castillo, that Chev didn't go through with the hit on Chinese Mob Boss Don Kim, Keone Young, he had Chev apprehended knocked out and shot up with a "Beijing Cocktail". The "cocktail" being a slow acting poison that will within 24 hours put Chev to sleep forever.
Getting in touch with his drug addicted physician Doc Mills, Dwight Yoakam, Chev is told the only way to keep the "cocktail" from doing him in is to keep on the move and shoot himself up with epinephrine, an adrenaline supplement, as well as snort lines of coke. Still, Doc Mills tells him, there's no way to stop the poison from eventually doing its job no matter how much coke and epinephrine Chev snorts or shoot himself up with. It's then that Chev decides to wipe out the entire Verona Mob in one last hit before he finally checks out for good.
Non-stop action that gets real messy at times with Chev going on a mindless rampage in his mission of revenge against those who murdered him. That fact that Cheve has time, 24 hours, before he's to die makes him far more dangerous, in knowing he has nothing to lose, then he ever was as a top West-Coast hit-man. Not caring about himself or those who have the misfortune of running into him Chev just makes a shambles of everything and everyone he comes in contact with in the film.
The movie "Crank" even gets a bit, a big bit, pornographic as Chev, needing to keep his heart furiously pumping to stay alive, attacks and rapes his stunned girlfriend Eve, Amy Smart. This outrageous scene takes place right in the middle of a crowded Chinatown street in front of a stunned and shocked crowd of, besides men, women and children!
****SPOLIER ALERT**** With time running out and no antidote in sight to save him Chev finally catches up with Verona and the real man behind his now deadly and pressing problems, like dropping dead at any moment, his former boss Carilto, Carlo Sanz. It turns out that Chev's decision to spar Chinese Godfather Don Kim's life paid dividends for him in the end. It was Don Kim and his boys who came to Chev's rescue just as he was about to be iced by Carlio & Verona. This didn't save Chev from his ultimate fate but gave him a chance, after dispatching the Carlito Gang, to get the ride of his life in the final fleeting moments of the movie "Crank".
When it came back to the person who hired him Verona, Jose Pablo Castillo, that Chev didn't go through with the hit on Chinese Mob Boss Don Kim, Keone Young, he had Chev apprehended knocked out and shot up with a "Beijing Cocktail". The "cocktail" being a slow acting poison that will within 24 hours put Chev to sleep forever.
Getting in touch with his drug addicted physician Doc Mills, Dwight Yoakam, Chev is told the only way to keep the "cocktail" from doing him in is to keep on the move and shoot himself up with epinephrine, an adrenaline supplement, as well as snort lines of coke. Still, Doc Mills tells him, there's no way to stop the poison from eventually doing its job no matter how much coke and epinephrine Chev snorts or shoot himself up with. It's then that Chev decides to wipe out the entire Verona Mob in one last hit before he finally checks out for good.
Non-stop action that gets real messy at times with Chev going on a mindless rampage in his mission of revenge against those who murdered him. That fact that Cheve has time, 24 hours, before he's to die makes him far more dangerous, in knowing he has nothing to lose, then he ever was as a top West-Coast hit-man. Not caring about himself or those who have the misfortune of running into him Chev just makes a shambles of everything and everyone he comes in contact with in the film.
The movie "Crank" even gets a bit, a big bit, pornographic as Chev, needing to keep his heart furiously pumping to stay alive, attacks and rapes his stunned girlfriend Eve, Amy Smart. This outrageous scene takes place right in the middle of a crowded Chinatown street in front of a stunned and shocked crowd of, besides men, women and children!
****SPOLIER ALERT**** With time running out and no antidote in sight to save him Chev finally catches up with Verona and the real man behind his now deadly and pressing problems, like dropping dead at any moment, his former boss Carilto, Carlo Sanz. It turns out that Chev's decision to spar Chinese Godfather Don Kim's life paid dividends for him in the end. It was Don Kim and his boys who came to Chev's rescue just as he was about to be iced by Carlio & Verona. This didn't save Chev from his ultimate fate but gave him a chance, after dispatching the Carlito Gang, to get the ride of his life in the final fleeting moments of the movie "Crank".