Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Crank - not worth a theatre visit.
I'm sad to say, Crank was seriously disappointing. Being a fan of Statham, it had such promise. What a great action-movie concept - hitman with nothing to lose and a grudge to settle in his last few hours of life. The delivery could hardly have been more boring. There were moments, of course, though few of them were good action moments. There wasn't a single memorable fight scene or shoot-out. In fact, the action sequences were decidedly amatuerish. Everything was straight cuts back and forth with lots of needless slo-mo. The bulk of the movie is simply Statham running around talking on his cell phone. As I said, there are moments. Statham tossing a cabbie onto the ground declaring him al-quaeda was a nice social commentary. The public sex scene in China town was quite hilarious. But overall, the whole movie was just... boring. Wait for video at least, if not cable.
I'm sad to say, Crank was seriously disappointing. Being a fan of Statham, it had such promise. What a great action-movie concept - hitman with nothing to lose and a grudge to settle in his last few hours of life. The delivery could hardly have been more boring. There were moments, of course, though few of them were good action moments. There wasn't a single memorable fight scene or shoot-out. In fact, the action sequences were decidedly amatuerish. Everything was straight cuts back and forth with lots of needless slo-mo. The bulk of the movie is simply Statham running around talking on his cell phone. As I said, there are moments. Statham tossing a cabbie onto the ground declaring him al-quaeda was a nice social commentary. The public sex scene in China town was quite hilarious. But overall, the whole movie was just... boring. Wait for video at least, if not cable.
