This is one of those movies whose empty-headed premise is so pure it’s witty: with his insatiable need for excitement, the hero is a perfect stand-in for the fanboys in the audience.

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| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Sure, Crank is totally ridiculous, unbelievable, exhausting, and pretty much just plain stupid, but that's what makes it fun.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

Its freneticism ... futilely tries to cover up the ludicrousness of every decision made by its dim characters.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 24, 2007

It's a promising concept, but instead of expending effort on, say, a coherent script, the filmmakers lazily rely on cheap editing tricks and gleefully relentless sadism.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Sep 23, 2006

A cheerily lunatic slice of B-movie heaven.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2006

Leave it alone, or leave your brain and pocket change at the gate, strap yourself in and just enjoy the ride.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2006

Viewers baffled by stuff happening for no particular reason should probably stay well away.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 8, 2006

Jason Stratham rampages through Los Angeles in this retread of Speed, but for a movie premised on unrelenting action, Crank proves fatally turgid.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 5, 2006

It boils down to 83 minutes of Chev journeying through LA's ethnic 'hoods dispatching minorities. Granted the movie can't be taken seriously, its cavalier racism is shocking.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 4, 2006

But as the body count mounts up, the story runs out of ideas, and it goes from crank to crummy.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 3, 2006

Vulgar, ridiculous, offensive and absolutely riveting.

| Sep 2, 2006

The movie is cranked up somewhere between stylish and proudly stupid.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 2, 2006

While Crank has its moments, the line stringing them together isn't wound taut enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 1, 2006

Writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's previous work lies mainly in making commercials -- the quick-cutting aesthetic employed here.

| Sep 1, 2006

It may stretch that hour a bit, but it doesn't waste a minute -- though it wastes everything else in its immediate vicinity. Your time as well? Not unless you don't have the stomach for wholesale property damage, mutilation and needles.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2006

A jacked-up, unapologetically mindless bit of ADD-prescribed escapism that more or less delivers on a nifty premise.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2006

For all its busyness, Crank never develops much momentum, not least because an exploding heart doesn't carry quite the same stakes as an exploding bus.

| Sep 1, 2006

This is as detestable a hard-R offense (equal-opportunity offender though it may be) as has ever been released to theaters.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2006