Crank (film)

Crank is a 2006 American black comedyaction film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor and starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart and Jose Pablo Cantillo. The plot centers on a British hitman in Los Angeles named Chev Chelios who is poisoned and must keep his adrenaline flowing constantly in order to keep himself alive. He does so by various methods including taking drugs and getting into fights, while he tries to track down the man who poisoned him. The title of the film comes from the slang word for methamphetamine.

Chev Chelios Jason Statham is a Chinesebased British hitman, working for a crime syndicate headed by Carlito Carlos Sanz. Chelios is contracted by Carlito to kill mafia boss Don Kim Keone Young as members of the Triads have been encroaching on Carlitos business. Chelios betrays Carlito by making it appear he assassinated Don Kim although he chose to let him live. Ricky Verona Jose Pablo Cantillo, an ambitious smalltime criminal uses the opportunity to conspire with Carlito against Chelios Verona will kill Chelios so the Triads do not retaliate, and then take Chelioss place as Carlitos new hired gun. While Chelios sleeps in his apartment, Verona, his brother Alex Jay Xcala, and several henchmen break in and inject Chelios with a Chinese synthetic drug which inhibits the flow of adrenaline, slowing the heart and eventually killing the victim. Chelios wakes to find a recording left by Verona showing what he has done.Chelios phones Mafia physician Doc Miles Dwight Yoakam, who informs Chelios that in order to survive he must keep his adrenaline pumping through constant excitement and danger. Chelios keeps his adrenaline up through reckless and dangerous acts like picking fights with other gangsters, taking illegal drugs and synthetic epinephrine, fighting with police, stealing a police officers motorcycle, having sex with his girlfriend Eve Amy Smart in public, and driving his car through a shopping mall. ........

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