Dec 8 2005Jason Statham gets "Cranked"
I don't want to tell Hollywood how to do their job, but maybe they should put a little more effort into the scripts they back.
IN "Speed," Keanu Reeves had to keep driving a booby-trapped bus at 50 mph at least or it would explode. In "Crank," Jason Statham is a hitman who's been shot up with a Chinese poison that will kill him if his adrenaline level drops. Amy Smart (above), who plays his girlfriend, told the Chicago Sun Times: "What Jason must do to keep his adrenaline up is insane. He has to hammer nails into his legs, snort coke and have crazy sex in public."
Don't get me wrong, I love Jason Statham because he's one of the baddest ass badasses in the world, but the premise of this movie sounds like a joke. How about instead of having to hammer nails into his legs, he instead single-handedly beats up the Yakuza and then the Italian mob with only his fists? The story would be just as lame, but at least we'd get to see Jason Statham doing what he does best.
