Crank 2006

Critics score:
61 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: It may be one of the loudest, most obnoxious (not to mention sexist) movies of the summer, but damned if it doesn't keep an audience in high gear. Read more

Associated Press: Writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's previous work lies mainly in making commercials -- the quick-cutting aesthetic employed here. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Viewers baffled by stuff happening for no particular reason should probably stay well away. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Read more

Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: While Crank has its moments, the line stringing them together isn't wound taut enough. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is cranked up somewhere between stylish and proudly stupid. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: If you stop to think too hard about any aspect of the story, things might fall apart; but stopping is something the movie never lets you do. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: It may stretch that hour a bit, but it doesn't waste a minute -- though it wastes everything else in its immediate vicinity. Your time as well? Not unless you don't have the stomach for wholesale property damage, mutilation and needles. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: It's a promising concept, but instead of expending effort on, say, a coherent script, the filmmakers lazily rely on cheap editing tricks and gleefully relentless sadism. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's an E-ticket ride. But in the end, there's no heart, no moral to this story. And for all our sweat as viewers, the one thing we crave by Crank's closing credits is detox. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For those who enjoy this brand of wholly mindless entertainment, Crank delivers. Read more

Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle: Leave it alone, or leave your brain and pocket change at the gate, strap yourself in and just enjoy the ride. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: So blatantly contrived it could be called The Fast and the Spurious, Crank has the small saving grace of being intentionally ridiculous. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Crank qualifies as a superior piece of slick, shallow-souled trash. And I mean that in the best sense of the term. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: The film is so jubilantly over the top and aware of its own failings, it's hard not to laugh. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: For all its busyness, Crank never develops much momentum, not least because an exploding heart doesn't carry quite the same stakes as an exploding bus. Read more