Crank

"There are a thousand ways to raise your adrenaline. Today, Chev Chelios will need every single one."

2006 1h 28m EN

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6.7

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62%

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METACRITIC

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6.9

IMDB

★6.7TMDB · 4,400🍅62%Rotten Tomatoes●57Metacritic★6.9IMDB · 276,303

ActionThrillerCrime

Synopsis

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Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.

“There are a thousand ways to raise your adrenaline. Today, Chev Chelios will need every single one.”

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Cast

Jason Statham
Chev
Amy Smart
Eve
Jose Pablo Cantillo
Verona
Efren Ramirez
Kaylo
Dwight Yoakam
Doc Miles
Carlos Sanz
Carlito
Reno Wilson
Orlando
Edi Gathegi
Haitian Cabbie

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Brian Taylor
Writers: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine, Mark Moretti
Languages: English, Spanish, Korean
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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88 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 3.6× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 20 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, Spanish, Korean.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Crank Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

CAST

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317+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Brian Taylor, shot by Adam Biddle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Paul Haslinger. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Brian Taylor directs. Adam Biddle behind the camera. Paul Haslinger scores. Brian Berdan cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Spanish, Korean.

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Things worth knowing

188 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Made its money back 3.6× over at the box office.
3Released 20 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, Spanish, Korean.
5Part of the "Crank Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6317+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Brian Taylor, shot by Adam Biddle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Paul Haslinger. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Brian Berdan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Jason Statham and Amy Smart and Jose Pablo Cantillo carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "There are a thousand ways to raise your adrenaline. Today, Chev Chelios will need every single one.".
12IMDB entry: tt0479884 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13Classified under 21 themes, including "assassin", "helicopter", "hitman", "poison".

The technical file

Cinematography: Adam Biddle
Original score: Paul Haslinger
Editing: Brian Berdan
Production design: Jerry Fleming
Costume design: Christopher Lawrence
Makeup / hair: Candy L. Walken
VFX supervisor: Travis Baumann
Sound: Ezra Dweck
Stunt coordinator: Darrin Prescott
Runtime: 88 min · 1h 28m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $12,000,000
Box office: $42,900,000
Return: 358% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Crank (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes: 62% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 57/100
IMDB rating: 6.9/10 · 276,303 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations total

Part of

Crank Collection

An American action comedy film series centers on a British hitman in Los Angeles named Chev Chelios who is poisoned and must keep his adrenaline flowing constantly in order to keep himself alive.

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John Chard2013-12-24
★ 8/10
A violent and vulgar distraction. Indeed, British magazine Radio Times reviewed Crank and called it a violent and vulgar distraction, maybe so if you be a little prudish and timid of stomach for high octane thrills. Crank is utterly bonkers fun, and it knows it, star Jason Statham knows it, directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor know it, and quite frankly any action movie junkie fan knows it. The tongue is planted so firmly into cheek it is in danger of breaking skin, it's a film that lives to take you on a most improbable thrill ride and succeeds admirably in doing so. Plot is kind of incidental, but Statham has been injected with a Chinese drug that will kill him if his adrenalin levels drop. So off he goes in search of vengeance and maybe an antidote? He runs, he jumps, he snorts drugs, has sex with Amy Smart in public, rides a motorbike like Evel Knievel, flashes his arse a lot and gets a major league erection. He, much like the film, never pauses for breath, it's all very breakneck and kinetic. The makers are guilty of acting like kids locked in a sweet shop, with all the flashy tricks of the action movie trade used wherever possible, but so what? Sit back with a good drink and some movie snacks and enjoy one of the best action movie rides of 2006. 8/10

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