Crank
Directed by	Mark Neveldine Brian Taylor
Produced by	Michael Davis Tom Rosenberg Michael Ohoven Gary Lucchesi David Rubin Skip Williamson Richard S. Tom B Rosenberg is an American Film producer as well as founder and Chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment. Wright
Written by	Mark Neveldine Brian Taylor
Starring	Jason Statham Amy Smart Efren Ramirez Dwight Yoakam
Music by	Paul Haslinger
Cinematography	Adam Biddle
Editing by	Brian Berdan
Distributed by	United States: Lions Gate Films United Kingdom: Universal Studios
Release date(s)	September 1, 2006
Running time	87 min. Jason Michael Statham (born 12 September 1972 is an English actor known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie Crime films Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. Efren Ramirez (born October 2, 1973 in Los Angeles, California) is a Hispanic - American actor of Salvadoran Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American Country music Singer, Songwriter, and Actor Paul Haslinger (born 11 December 1962) is an Austrian born composer and musician currently based in Los Angeles, California. Adam Biddle may refer to Adam Biddle (cinematographer Adam Biddle (footballer Brian Berdan is a Film editor with several high-grossing films to his name The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Lionsgate redirects here For other meanings see Lions' Gate (disambiguation‎. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Language	English
Budget	$12,000,000
Followed by	Crank 2: High Voltage
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Crank is a 2006 action / thriller film, written and directed by both Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been Crank High Voltage is the Upcoming sequel to the action film Crank. The year 2006 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest Action movies are a Film genre where action sequences such as fights, Shootouts Stunts Car chases or explosions either take precedence The thriller is a broad Genre of Literature, Film, Gaming and Television. The film stars Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez and Dwight Yoakam. Jason Michael Statham (born 12 September 1972 is an English actor known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie Crime films Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. Efren Ramirez (born October 2, 1973 in Los Angeles, California) is a Hispanic - American actor of Salvadoran Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American Country music Singer, Songwriter, and Actor It was released in the United States on September 1, 2006 in 2,515 theaters. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The film was rated R by the MPAA for strong violence, pervasive language, sexuality, nudity and drug use. The Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is used in the U Violence is the exertion of force so as to injure or abuse The word is used broadly to describe the destructive action of natural phenomena like Storms and Earthquakes The original meaning of the adjective profane (from the Latin for "in front of or outside the Temple " was to refer to items not belonging to the church Human sexual behavior or different human sexual practices encompass a wide range of activities such as strategies to find or attract partners ( Mating and display Nudity is the state of wearing no Clothing. The term' "nudity" can also occasionally be used to refer to wearing significantly less clothing than expected Drugs can be used in many different ways as detailed below Medication See also Medication People can use drugs to relieve pain or discomfort or to cure

Plot

A professional hitman, Chev Chelios wakes up with severe grogginess and blurred vision. Contract killing occurs when a private contractor or a government hires someone to kill a specific person or people for a sum of money Fictional Biography Chelios was born in London. Chelios had lived with his mother in England but both moved to Los Angeles in the United States. After stumbling around his apartment, he discovers a DVD inscribed with the words "Fuck You. Fuck is an English Word that as a Verb, means "to have Sexual intercourse " " A rival gangster, Verona, injects Chelios' 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. Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. He then calls Dr. Miles (Dwight Yoakam), in hopes of having some sort of antidote, but Miles is not even in Los Angeles at the moment. Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American Country music Singer, Songwriter, and Actor Next, he calls his friend Kaylo to pinpoint Verona and his associates' location.

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. Cocaine ( benzoylmethyl ecgonine) is a Crystalline Tropane Alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the Coca plant 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 (actually the American name for 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-thin's (an over-the-counter stimulant) and caffeinated drinks. A convenience store is a small store or shop. They are often located alongside busy roads or at gas/petrol stations. Mini-thin is an OTC stimulant usually containing Ephedrine. May contain other OTC chemicals and/or herbs believed to be stimulants such as Caffeine and Synephrine

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. A cleaver is a large Knife that varies in its shape but usually resembles a square-bladed Hatchet. 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.

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. Chester Charles Bennington (born on March 20 1976 is an American Musician, singer-songwriter and Multi-instrumentalist. Nasal sprays, or nasal mists, are used for the nasal delivery of a drug or drugs generally to alleviate cold or Allergy symptoms such as Nasal congestion 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 (Glenn Howerton) fumbles with the gurneys medicine drawers, the police follow with guns drawn. Glenn Franklin Howerton III (born April 13, 1976) is an American Actor of Television and Film. 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. Defibrillation is the definitive treatment for the life-threatening Cardiac arrhythmias Ventricular fibrillation and Ventricular tachycardia. 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 chastises him for using the whole syringe of epinephrine, then proceeds to ask Chev if he has the symptoms of an overdose, to which Chev responds, "Check. "

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 hitman, not a video game programmer as she thought. A Chinatown is a section of an urban area with a large number of Chinese outside the majority-Chinese countries of Greater China. A game programmer is a Programmer who primarily develops Video games or related Software (such as Game development tools. 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. Sexual intercourse, in its biological sense is the act in which the male reproductive organ (in humans and other higher animals enters the female reproductive tract 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.

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. The Chevrolet Impala was through 1996 a Full-sized Automobile built by General Motors for their Chevrolet division Now believing his story, Eve performs fellatio on Chev to keep him going. Fellatio, also called fellation, is Oral sex performed upon the Penis. 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.

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. 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.

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.

Cast

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

Themes

The film's plot and action are reminiscent of video games, and the film makes frequent references to video arcade games. Jason Michael Statham (born 12 September 1972 is an English actor known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie Crime films Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Fictional Biography Chelios was born in London. Chelios had lived with his mother in England but both moved to Los Angeles in the United States. Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. Jose Pablo Cantillo (born March 30, 1979) is an American Actor. Efren Ramirez (born October 2, 1973 in Los Angeles, California) is a Hispanic - American actor of Salvadoran Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American Country music Singer, Songwriter, and Actor Roy "Reno" Wilson (born October 20 1970) is an American actor who has appeared in a number of television programmes and films A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. 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. The high score of a Video game, Arcade game, or Computer game is usually the highest logged point value 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. MAME is an Emulator application designed to recreate the Hardware of Arcade game systems in Software, with the intent of preserving gaming 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. Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter Video game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. 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. Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter Video game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. Amy Smart's character Eve believes Chev to be a video game programmer before he confesses that he is a hitman.

Film critic Brian Orndorf from FilmJerk. com called Crank "The latest stab by Hollywood to cash in on the violent video game craze". ^[2]

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. Invincible is a 2006 Film directed by Ericson Core set in 1976 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. ^[3]

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. Comic-Con International San Diego, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, is an annual multigenre Fan convention founded as the Golden 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. HDV is a High-definition_video format that uses MPEG2 compression to record HD content onto tapes originally designed for standard definition DV recording Computer animation Computer-generated imagery (also known as CGI) is the application of the field of Computer graphics or more specifically 3D computer graphics ^[4]

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. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees 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. Video blogging, sometimes shortened to vlogging is a form of Blogging for which the medium is Video.

Soundtrack

Main article: Crank (soundtrack)

DVD

The Crank DVD has been released by Lionsgate Home Entertainment on January 9, 2007. Soundtrack The Soundtrack for the film was released on August 22, 2006. Events 475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople. The DVD is available in separate anamorphic widescreen and fullscreen editions, each with Dolby Digital 5. Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies developed by Dolby 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.

The Region 2 version of the DVD was released December 26, 2006, but it has no special features. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Sequel

Main article: Crank 2: High Voltage

References

External links

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