Movie Review: Crank

Stacy Garcia

English Composition 102-28

Wed. 22, 2010

Crank

High Voltage

          Crank is considered an action flick movie. The movie has car chases, drugs and fighting. The movie starts out with depicting a comic book by having the main character Jason Statham played as Chelios falls out of a helicopter. He is then rushed to a hospital where he has an artificial heart put in him. A guy by the name of Johnny Vang who is part of an Asian gang watches and takes Jason’s real heart by placing it into a cooler. Vang then takes Chelios heart to his boss who in return wants to destroy it. After waking up from a three month comma, Chelios then escapes the hospital realizing then that there is a battery attached to him.

After a gun fight Chelios learns the whereabouts of Vang. Chelios calls his doctor friend to find out about his battery pack. Doc Miles played by Dwight Yoakam, informs Chelios that his battery pack is what’s keeping him alive and that if the battery were to die, Chelios would have sixty minutes before his artificial heart would stop working.Doc also stated that he needs adrenaline  to keep the heat pumping.  Just then Chelios stole a car and stopped to ask a Mexican gang where he could find the social club where Vang would be at. The Mexicans challenges him to a street race. Chelios agrees and then crashes his car breaking the battery pack. Knowing that he has to keep his heart from stopping he asks the Mexicans to hook up car cables to their car and hook them to him. After getting his heart pumping up to speed he then runs to the club to find Vang.

When Chelios finds Vang, Vang notices him and flees from the club. Chelios finds a stripper named Ria who knows where he can find Vang. While talking to Ria, he notices eve, his long time girlfriend, who is also a stripper at that same club. The same Mexican gang members show up to the club and start a fight with Chelios. Guns are pulled out and the shooting begins. A mobster by the name of el huron wants him dead and Chelios has no reason why. By the time Chelios escapes the club, he runs outside and finds himself being beaten by night sticks from the cops. Chelios is about to faint until a cop starts to use a stun gun on him giving Chelios the adrenaline he needs to fight back.

Chelios and eve escape once again and comes across some porn stars going on strike about not being paid enough. They start to gather around his car yelling, Chelios gets out of his car and starts to run leaving eve in the back of the car. Chelios ends up at a horse track where he finds Vang. The running begins between Chelios and Vang. Chelios starts to slow down due to his heart losing power. He calls the doctor asking him what else he can do besides using high voltage to charge it. The doctor responds by saying rubbing his skin on another person’s body would produce friction, which would then charge his heart again.

Chelios starts rubbing himself against an old lady who finds him repulsive and starts to smack him. Eve shows up to the race track and asks him what he is doing. After explaining his situation to eve he then comes up with an idea. He takes eve to the field that the race track is on and starts having sex with eve in front of the audience. After a while of that, Chelios heart is fully charged. Chelios finds Vang, who is cheering him on along with the audience, and starts after him again leaving eve behind once more.

It’s a movie that kind of takes a while to get to the plot. Although it may take a while its action packed and full of chaos. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who is into action and drama movies. The sequel Crank 2 is not good at all. So don’t rent that one, you will be highly disappointed.

To watch trailer click on link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2koYVqwzT4

Citations
Video: "Crank HIGH VOLTAGE - trailer." YouTube. Web. 27 Sep 2010. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2koYVqwzT4>.

Image: "Crank Poster." Geek on Flim. Web. 27 Sep 2010. <http://geekonfilm.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/out-now-crank-high-voltage/>.

Texting While Driving

            I feel as though texting while driving just needs to end. No matter how excellent of a driver you may assume you are. At a split second you could cause an accident, killing you or someone else. I’m not saying I have NEVER texted while driving, because I would be telling bold face lie. It wasn’t until a friend of mine, Mitch, was texting while driving and ran off the road striking a tree, breaking both of his ankles.

            It was a huge alarm to all of us, because my friends and I use to do it a great deal. Mitch’s mother called us when she arrived to the hospital asking us to come up and see him. When we walked into his room, he was covered in cuts and bruises. At first no one said anything for what seemed to be forever. Finally, Mitch broke the silence by trying to make a joke out of it stating, “So, I guess I should of texted you all saying I was coming to the hospital.” We smiled, as we all gave him a hug. Mitch talked about what he was texting that was so important. He was sending all of us a text letting us know when he was going to be home so we could all hang out.

            All Mitch got to type was “Hey Gu.” His text was supposed to say “Hey Guys.” As he was explaining his story, the doctor walked in notifying that both of his legs were going to end up in casts. It truly was an eye opener for all of us. Since then we all take a great deal in not texting while driving. We all wait until we get to where we are going. We were all so grateful that it didn’t end worse for our friend Mitch.