Reviews

This movie really is fully packed with action and humor. it has everything that can keep your heart pumping for the whole movie. A hit-man chasing and killing bad guys with guns knives and everything he can find. there is a lot of gunfight and explosives. But the movie really is funny too. the whole crowd in the theater were laughing out loud here at the "avant-première" in Montreal. during the opening sequence, some dizziness begin to overwhelm you because of a shaky and blurred camera but i guess this is exactly what the director was expecting. This "shaky hand" camera effect is reused throughout the movie adding to the perspective and helps one get plunged in the movie. The special effects are mainly car crashes and explosions, but are really well executed and very inventive. And the story, well, the story isn't really what you seek when choosing to go see this kind of movies, but in crank, the storyline is actually pretty good. It could probably be resumed in half a page though :) I would say that it is one of the most balanced humor/action movie i've seen in the past years.

This short movie had some potential, but the sound track ruined everything. After 16 minutes of pure sound chaos, nobody applauded, nobody except the filming crew. (who were there to present their movie to Montreal's Fantasia festival.) People where quietly saying how glad they were this was over. I Still don't know if this "Sound" was by purpose, or has been caused by a defect in the speaker system of the theater but anyhow, the next film has been correct, with no sound problem at all.

The photography was quite accurate, except a few goofs (we even saw a finger in the lens) and shaky hands... The story had some good too, but the entire film could have been reduced by half its running time...