Title: Thrill Ride
Product review: "Crank" is an action-packed thrill ride that starts with the opening frame and doesn't let you down until Statham crashes to the ground. Jason Statham is perfectly cast as the assassin Chev Chelios who falls in love. Amy Smart from "Varsity Blues" as Eve is a luscious light brain with a determination to keep turning up at exactly the wrong time. Her amazing lack of understanding to what's happening around her makes the violence comic as in the sequence where she drops her purse while Chev dispatches numerous assailants without her being aware. The scene downtown where he flips up her skirt and has back door relations before a busload of ogling Japanese schoolgirls is hysterical, even if it is quintessentially poor taste. Dwight Yoakam gives a nice supporting performance as Doc Miles who keeps coaching Chev on how to stay alive. Directors Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor keep the thrills moving a mile a second. Whatever "Crank" may be, it is not boring. Enjoy!
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