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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireEmpireA Saw for the action crowd, this is an intense, stripped-down ride that goes places you’d never expect. Edgy and outrageous, it should get the fearless Statham some deserved attention.
- 80L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyFirst-time feature directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor play with speed and sound to effectively recreate the buzz of an over-caffeinated all-nighter, delivering one of the year’s best pure junk-food entertainments.
- Neveldine and Taylor empty their handbasket of cinematic tricks. They display visual wit, have fun with pop songs, and shoot much of the film in slightly choppy fast-motion ("under-cranked," get it?).
- 70The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe 2006 summer movie season went out with a reasonable bang courtesy of Crank, a jacked-up, unapologetically mindless bit of ADD-prescribed escapism that more or less delivers on a nifty premise.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceySo blatantly contrived it could be called The Fast and the Spurious, Crank has the small saving grace of being intentionally ridiculous. The action sequences are more notable for their outrageousness than their visceral power.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliOne could argue that Crank works best as a comedy. It's occasionally funny, and some times VERY funny.
- 50TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThe whole thing whizzes by in such a panicked rush that there's no time for anything so immaterial as character, but what little we do learn about Chev works against the film.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickGenially preposterous, with stunt players outnumbering actors by something like a 3-to-1 ratio, the action thriller Crank is surprisingly watchable.
- For a movie premised on unrelenting action, Crank proves fatally turgid.
- 12New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanEvery movie's gotta have a gimmick, and Crank's is that it has an excellent shot at ending 2006 as the worst film of the year.