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Freelance hitman Chev Chelios wakes up with a big problem; a DVD left in his apartment by small-time gangster Ricky Vanero tells him that he has only one hour to live. While Chev was asleep, Vanero injected him with a deadly synthetic drug from China--known as the Beijing Cocktail--as payback for Chev's last hit. Now, Chev's only hope to stay alive is to keep his adrenalin pumping.

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ProducerMichael Davis, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, Tom Rosenberg

EAN5050582473445

eBay Product ID (ePID)72541672

Product Key Features

ActorAmy Smart, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Efren Ramirez, Carlos Sanz, Jason Statham, Dwight Yoakam

Film/TV TitleCrank

DirectorMark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

LanguageEnglish

Run Time84 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2006

FormatDVD

FranchiseCrank

FeaturesWidescreen

GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Production DesignerJerry Fleming

Additional InformationFreelance hitman Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) wakes up with a big problem; a DVD left in his apartment by small-time gangster Ricky Vanero (Jose Pablo Cantillo) tells him that he has only one hour to live. While Chev was asleep, Vanero injected him with a deadly synthetic drug from China--known as the Beijing Cocktail--as payback for Chev's last assignment, which failed. Now, Chev's only hope to stay alive is to keep his adrenalin pumping. Dead set on revenge against Vanero, Chev also has to keep his girlfriend, Eve (Amy Smart), out of the mob's hands. To complicate matters, naive, sweet Eve has no idea that her charming British boyfriend is a hitman. Even worse, Chev's boss, Carlito (Carlos Sanz) has no intention of helping his favourite freelancer. Luckily, ChevÆs friend Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam) can offer some temporary lifesaving advice; his drugged pal has to keep moving. Downing cans of Red Bull and popping over-the-counter energy pills, Chev is a crazed man on a mission. He has to exact revenge on Vanero, save his girlfriend, and find an antidote, all while keeping his slowing heart pumping. Fear, sex and violence are the best way to keep adrenalin flowing, and there's no shortage of any of them in this non-stop action flick. Screenwriters and directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor make their feature-film debut in this fast-paced film and extreme chase scenes, shootouts, and romance abound, along with plenty of clipped dialogue and just enough dark humour. Statham plays Chev with a perfect combination of steely determination and utter insanity--a guy who is finally trying to do the right thing, even if it means killing lots of people along the way.

ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - [A]s showily amped and amiably amoral an extreme action pic as the exhaust-end of summer deserves, Total Film - [An] exuberant actioner....CRANK wouldn't work without Jason Statham. Battered, weary, wiescracking and astoundingly, viciously lethal, he's the working class angel of death cinema...

ScreenwriterBrian Taylor

EditorBrian Berdan

Movie/TV TitleCrank

Consumer AdviceContains strong violence, language and drug use