Just saw Crank the other night. This is a GUY MOVIE in capital letters. If you want violence, drugs, nudity and fast cars, well that all happens within the first five minutes. Jason Statham plays a hitman who has been injected with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops too much. Very fast, very violent and often very funny - kind of like a video game of a movie. Makes The Transporter look like Driving Miss Daisy. The kind of movie where:
1) If a guy falls off a tall building, he will land directly on top of the only car within in a five block radius
2) If a guy is attacked by a huge group of thugs, they will only fight him one or two at time, while the others stand around and watch
3) A guy can drive a car through stoplights, into a mall, and up an escalator while having a conversation on a cellphone.
Plus it made great use of Loverboy's 'Turn Me Loose' during a kitchen/back alley hatchet versus gun fight scene. So yeah, it was morally bankrupt, exploitive and stupid, but I still enjoyed it. Because I'm a guy.
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