Saturday, March 31, 2007

Crank

Like Speed but with Jason Statham as Keanu Reeves and the bus all rolled into one. Whilst the premise promises to at least be action packed for the majority of the running time the film spectacularly fails to deliver. It starts out monolithically stupid, gets boring about 20 minutes in an never recovers. Very poor.

Interestingly whenever satellite or aerial photography are used we see copyright notices at the bottom of the screen which kind of typifies the general shoddiness of the whole production.

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3 comments:

Dan said...

I really don't understand why Jason Statham keeps getting acting work, especially as someone out there seems to be trying to turn him into the next Bruce Willis. He is the mark of any bad film, IMO.

Tom P said...

I thought The Transporter was OK.
He's kind of like the (very slightly) thinking man's Vinnie Jones.

Neil Stewart said...

I had high hopes for Crank, it sounds like an excellent high concept for film. Sounds very shoddily executed though.