Monday, February 12, 2007

Movie: Crank is unstoppable


Crank is one of those films you just have to love. It looks like the people who did House of the Dead worked on it.
It uses so many strange or juvenile clips that it screams "guy Film". From the very beginning when you see the titles that look like a 1980's video game, to the standing around with a hard on jokes, to the cutting off of limbs as easy as they do in Kill Bill. These guys took all the cheesy things guys like and just through them into a film. there is just enough story to keep everything going.

Basically, the film starts off with the killer getting poisoned. Now, he has 1 hour to die, so he's going to spend it trying to get to the guy that poisoned him. The only thing keeping him alive are the things that every guy goes to guy film to see: boobs, fights, crashes, drugs, and chases. A director one said " whenever a film is going South, I put in an explosion, a bare breast, or a chase scene, and it brings the audience back on track." These guys took that and ran with it.
Fun and .... well... fun. Think of MI3 with less story, less budget, and more action.

See it.

-Bradley

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