Crank is a 2006 action/thriller film, written and directed by both Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The Lions Gate Films-produced film stars Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, and Dwight Yoakam. It was released in the United States on September 1, 2006 in 2,515 theaters. The film was rated R by the MPAA for strong violence, pervasive language, sexuality, nudity, and drug use. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (506x755, 91 KB) This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ... Tom B. Rosenberg is an American film producer as well as founder and chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment. ... Jason Statham (born on 12 September 1972, in Sydenham, Lewisham, London) is an English actor, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Revolver and Snatch. ... Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1776) is an American actress and former fashion model. ... Efren Ramirez (born October 2, 1973[1] in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Paul Haslinger (born 1962) is an Austrian-born composer and musician currently based in Los Angeles, California. ... Adam Biddle is an English cinematographer, and the brother of late cinematographer Adrian Biddle. ... Brian Berdan is a film editor with several high-grossing films to his name. ... Lions Gate redirects here, for other meanings see Lions Gate (disambiguation)‎. Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, (usually renderred as Lionsgate), (NYSE: LGF) is an American entertainment company which originated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... This article is about the American media conglomerate. ... is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... // Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing... Look up Action film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Lions Gate redirects here, for other meanings see Lions Gate (disambiguation)‎. Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, (usually renderred as Lionsgate), (NYSE: LGF) is an American entertainment company which originated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... Jason Statham (born on 12 September 1972, in Sydenham, Lewisham, London) is an English actor, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Revolver and Snatch. ... Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1776) is an American actress and former fashion model. ... Efren Ramirez (born October 2, 1973[1] in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Motion Picture Association of Americas film-rating system is used in the U.S and its territories to rate a films thematic and content suitability for certain audiences. ... MPAA redirects here. ... For other uses, see Violence (disambiguation). ... In cartoons, profanity is often depicted by substituting symbols for words, as a form of non-specific censorship. ... This article is about sexual practices (i. ... Nude redirects here. ... Recreational drug use is the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational rather than medical or spiritual purposes, although the distinction is not always clear. ...

Cast

• Jason Statham as Chev Chelios
• Amy Smart as Eve
• Jose Pablo Cantillo as Verona
• Efren Ramirez as Kaylo
• Dwight Yoakam as Doc Miles
• Carlos Sanz as Carlito
• Reno Wilson as Orlando

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Plot

A professional hitman, Chev Chelios wakes up with severe grogginess and blurred vision. After stumbling around his apartment, he discovers a DVD inscribed with the words "Fuck You". On the DVD, rival gangster Verona injects Chelios's unconscious body with a poison called the "Beijing Cocktail", claiming that it will kill him in an hour. Chelios flies into a rage and destroys the television playing the film, then runs to his Buick Riviera and speeds through Los Angeles. In his fury, Chev notes that his grogginess has alleviated. He places several calls, first to his girlfriend Eve (Amy Smart), but she does not answer. He then calls Doctor Miles (Dwight Yoakam), in hopes of having some sort of antidote, but Miles is not even in Los Angeles at the moment. Next, he calls his friend Kaylo to pinpoint Verona and his associates' location. In most countries with judicial systems, a contract to kill a person is unenforceable by law (in the sense that the customer cannot sue for specific performance and the contract killer cannot sue for his pay). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1776) is an American actress and former fashion model. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Chev then heads to a bar and holds a gun up to a former affiliate, Orlando, to help track down the location of Verona. Since Orlando does not know where Verona is, Chev buys cocaine from him and then attacks his friends to pump up his adrenaline. As he speeds away, several police units begin to chase him. As Chelios flees the police, Doctor Miles calls and tells him that he needs to go to the hospital and get epinephrine, a substitute adrenaline. During the conversation, Chev evades police by driving through an indoor mall, crashes his car on the escalator, and flees in a taxi. During the drive, he stops to rob a convenience store of mini-thins (an over-the-counter stimulant) and caffeinated drinks. Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... Adrenaline redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mini-thin is an OTC stimulant usually containing ephedrine prior to ephedrine ban in USA. May contain other OTC chemicals and/or herbs believed to be stimulants such as Phenethylamine and Tyramine This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Chev goes to the mansion of Carlito, a crime lord with whom he is affiliated. Chev jumps into the pool to talk with him, but Carlito will not help him. As he speeds off in the taxi, Kaylo calls and tells him that Verona's brother is in a particular restaurant. Chev enters the restaurant and draws Verona's brother into an alley, where Chev slices off his gun-hand with a meat cleaver. The two men wrestle with each other, and Kaylo joins in with a rolling pin. Chev's gun is defective from his dip in the pool, so he picks up the severed hand holding the gun and shoots Verona's brother, killing him. He then calls Verona, who is surprised to see that he is still alive. He pulls a necklace off of Verona's brother and tells him he is coming to kill him and his crew. Chinese and old North American cleavers A cleaver is a large knife that varies in its shape but usually resembles a square-bladed hatchet. ...

Chev then goes to the hospital, where the pharmacist refuses him epinephrine and leaves to call the police. A young man (Chester Bennington) nearby tells Chev that there is epinephrine in nasal spray. Chev grabs multiple boxes and begins snorting each bottle. Police begin pursuing him, so he dons a hospital gown as a disguise, which proves ineffective. At gunpoint, he demands epinephrine from several doctors and nurses pushing a gurney with a patient on it. As a nurse fumbles with the gurneys medicine drawers, the police follow with guns drawn. The nurse eventually finds the epinephrine and gives it to Chev. Chev then tells the nurse to use the defibrillator on him, which throws him back into an elevator. After the doors close, Chev injects himself with the full vial of epinephrine. With the massive amount of epinephrine in his body, Chev begins running crazily throughout the streets of Los Angeles . Doctor Miles calls again and yells at him for taking too much epinephrine. Adrenaline redirects here. ... Chester Charles Bennington (born March 20, 1976)[1] is an American vocalist. ... Nasal sprays are used for the nasal delivery of a drug or drugs, generally to alleviate cold or allergy symptoms. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Chev soon comes to a TV store where the news reports on his rampage. A man looks at Chev, and recognizes him from the mug shot. Chev leaves the crowd and steals a police motorcycle and drives to his girlfriend Eve's apartment. When he gets there, he tells her that they need to leave and she gets dressed. Chev purposely burns his left hand on the waffle iron to spike his adrenaline. The two leave, and Chev kills two assassins sent by Verona without Eve noticing. In a Chinatown restaurant, Chev reveals that he is actually a hit man, not a video game programmer as she thought. He tells her that he has been injected with poison, and that he did not complete his last assignment to kill the gangster Don Kim so that they could run away together. She angrily leaves the restaurant, believing that he is lying. He begins feeling weak again and asks her to have sex with him to wake him up. After initially fighting him off, she has sex with him in the middle of the plaza as a crowd gathers, shocked and amused. In the process, he gets a phone call from Kaylo, who says that Verona is in a nearby factory. To Eve's dismay, Chev has to break off the sex; he kisses her goodbye and heads off to meet up with Kaylo. This article is about sections of an urban area associated with a large number of Chinese residents or commercial activities. ... A game programmer is a software engineer who primarily develops computer or video games or related software (such as game development tools). ... It has been suggested that Duration of sexual intercourse be merged into this article or section. ...

Once Chev gets there, he discovers that Kaylo has been suffocated by affiliates of Carlito. They tell him that he is embarrassing his former employer and should die quietly. Suddenly, Eve appears from an elevator. A gunfight erupts and Chev quickly kills three of the men, but is lightly wounded as he flees to an elevator. Chev and Eve run throughout the factory and he sneaks up behind a thug and shoves his hand into a sewing machine. They escape to her car, with two 96 Impalas driven by the thugs in hot pursuit. Now believing his story, Eve performs oral sex on Chev to keep him going. At the same time Chev manages to kill the thugs in a rolling gun battle, then receives a call from Doctor Miles, who is back in town. At the doctor's office, Miles treats Chev, but tells him that due to his overdosing on epinephrine, his condition is irrevocably fatal. Preferring to die fighting for revenge, Chev calls Verona and they set up a meeting to exchange his brother's necklace for the antidote. An affiliate is an entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... 1958 Chevrolet Impala Convertible 1958 Chevrolet Impala Convertible The Chevrolet Impala is an automobile built for the Chevrolet division by General Motors. ... Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. ...

Chev fighting opposing hitman Verona in a helicopter above Los Angeles. Jason Statham did the majority of his own stunts in the film, including fighting in a helicopter 3,000 feet in the air.^[1]

On the floor of the meeting, Verona's thugs disarm him and escort him to an open-air patio. Verona awaits him, along with Carlito, who has joined forces with him. Carlito is sitting with Verona. Chev asks for the antidote and they laugh at him, telling him there isn't one. Chev pulls out his finger in the shape of a gun and aims it at Verona and Carlito. As they laugh at him, he points it at a thug and mimes pulling the trigger. The bodyguard falls over with a gunshot to the forehead. Verona and Carlito are shocked to see Don Kim and his armed thugs standing behind Chev. Image File history File links Helicopterfight. ... Image File history File links Helicopterfight. ...

The two gangs begin shooting each other and Chev chases after Verona. Carlito boards his helicopter to escape the gunfight. Chev, Verona, and Carlito grapple on the helicopter. Verona injects more poison into Chev then shoots Carlito and takes his place on the helicopter. As it lifts off, Chev dangles out of the helicopter, pulling at Verona's leg. High above the city, Chev finally pulls Verona out of the helicopter and both of them plummet through the air. Chev snaps Verona's neck, plummets away from the corpse and calls Eve's answering machine to apologize that he will not be returning to her. After hanging up, his body smashes down onto a car and bounces extravagantly high and far before smacking into the pavement, his face inches from the camera. His nostrils flare slightly in what appears to be breath, then he blinks once. Seconds before the credits the viewer hears two faint, but steady, heartbeats.

Themes

The film's plot and action are reminiscent of video games, and the film makes frequent references to video arcade games. The opening credits feature 1980s-style video game graphics and include an arcade-style highscore screen, with the first four entries being FUC, YOU, ASS, HOL, in that order. After the end credits, a video game sequence shows Chev running around and shooting gangsters, then dying in the street. A blinking message then reads, "Insert coin to continue. (press 5)". "5" is the default key used to insert coins in the MAME emulator. Various scenes in the film show images or characters from the video game Berzerk, a classic arcade game with the grim reputation as one of the few games where a person has died from heart problems while playing it. When Verona gets the final call from Chev about where to meet, it can be seen that the guy sitting next to him is playing Berzerk. Amy Smart's character Eve believes Chev to be a videogame programmer before he confesses that he is a hitman. There are also references to the GTA series from Rockstar. The Rockstar energy drink which the main character consumes and the typical "GTA San Andreas" font used in one of the credits proves that the authors played that game a lot for inspiration. Film critic Brian Orndorf from FilmJerk.com called Crank, "The latest stab by Hollywood to cash in on the violent video game craze".[1] Namcos Pac-Man is one of the most popular video games ever made. ... High score of the Commodore 64 game Great Giana Sisters The high score of a video game, arcade game, or computer game is usually the highest logged point value. ... MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. ... Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter video game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. ... Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter video game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. ...

Box office

On its first day of release, Crank earned $3.3 million, the day's highest earnings. In the film's first weekend, it earned $13 million, putting it at second place behind Invincible which earned $15.2 million. The film grossed $27,838,408 at the domestic box office, with another $11,404,413 in foreign box offices, for worldwide receipts of $39,242,821.[2] Invincible is a 2006 film directed by Ericson Core set in 1976. ...

Promotion

Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, along with actors Jason Statham and Efren Ramirez, appeared at the 2006 Comic-Con Convention in San Diego, California. The panel showed a short clip and promoted the film, mentioning that it was shot in HD and that no wires or CGI were used for the stunt scenes. [3] Comic-Con International, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, is an annual multigenre fan convention founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention and later the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans. ... San Diego redirects here. ... For the HDV virus, see Hepatitis D. HDV is an inexpensive high-definition video recording format which uses MPEG2 compression to fit HD content onto the same DV or MiniDV tapes originally developed for standard definition recording. ... Computer-generated imagery (commonly abbreviated as CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics (or more specifically, 3D computer graphics) to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media. ...

The filmmakers also made extensive use of web advertisement to promote the film. Lions Gate Films bought a featured spot on the home page of YouTube and paid several of its well-known members to advertise. Independently, Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, and Efren Ramirez appear in a vlog by a user known as biostudentgirl on YouTube as well as her personal site. YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... Videoblog, a portmanteau combining video, web, and log, (usually shortened to vlog) is a blog that includes video clips. ...

DVD

The Crank DVD has been released by Lionsgate Home Entertainment on January 9, 2007. The DVD is available in separate anamorphic widescreen and fullscreen editions, each with Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 tracks. The bonus materials includes running cast and crew audio commentary, behind-the-scenes footage, gags, maps, making-of insights, and interviews with the cast. These features are all accessible via the "Crank'd Out Mode" - a pop-up window feature that allows access to the extras without ever leaving the film. The DVD also includes a "family friendly" audio replacement, in which the film is dubbed over as it would appear on a television broadcast. However, the violence, language subtitles, and nudity are still the same. is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies by Dolby Laboratories. ...

The Region 2 version of the DVD was released December 26, 2006, but it has no special features. is the 360th day of the year (361st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sequel

A sequel to Crank, titled Crank 2: High Voltage has been confirmed by the writers and directors Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine.[4]. In Crank 2, Chelios will face a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered heart that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.[5]

Lionsgate Films will handle North American distribution of the film, while Lakeshore Entertainment will handle international distribution. Lions Gate redirects here. ... Lakeshore Entertainment Group is an American independent film production company founded in 1994 by Tom Rosenberg. ...

Soundtrack

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The track listing:

1. A Warrior's Death
2. Metal Health - Quiet Riot
3. Nasal Spray
4. Trix Are For Kids - The Crowd
5. You Stop, You Die
6. Bandera - Control Machete
7. Small Children
8. New Noise - Refused
9. Chinese Sh*t
10. China Town - Paul Haslinger
11. Hardcore Sh*t
12. Kill All The White Man - NOFX
13. Dipsy Doodle
14. Everybody's Talkin' - Harry Nilsson
15. Adrenaline Junkie
16. Turn Me Loose - Loverboy
17. Haitian Cab Ride - Paul Haslinger
18. Achy Breaky Heart - Jarrett & Long
19. Check List
20. Adrenalina - David Rolas
21. I Kill People
22. Bring Us Bullets - Rocket From The Crypt
23. Eve's Machine
24. Let's Get It On - Gerald Levert
25. Does She Know? - Paul Haslinger
26. Stayin' Alive - The Sleeping
27. How Much?
28. Meva Juan - Roberto Tuscan featuring Erica Garcia
29. Juice Me
30. Guasa, Guasa - Tego Calderón
31. It's A Miracle
32. Miracles - Jefferson Starship

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References

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External links

• Official Site
• Crank at the Internet Movie Database
• Crank at Rotten Tomatoes
• Quicktime theatrical trailer
• Crank 2 Confirmed
• Crank filmed in digital HD
• Detailed Comparison between the Theatrical Version and Director's Cut