Crank: Critic Reviews

85%

MovieWeb: 13 reviews

61%

RottenTomatoes: 89 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

59

The movie is cranked up somewhere between stylish and proudly stupid.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Nathan Lee New York Times (Top Critic)

30

Jason Stratham rampages through Los Angeles in this retread of Speed, but for a movie premised on unrelenting action, Crank proves fatally turgid.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Philip French Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

Vulgar, ridiculous, offensive and absolutely riveting.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

13

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.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Justin Chang Variety (Top Critic)

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.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

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.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

75

Crank qualifies as a superior piece of slick, shallow-souled trash. And I mean that in the best sense of the term.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

So blatantly contrived it could be called The Fast and the Spurious, Crank has the small saving grace of being intentionally ridiculous.
Full Review » 6 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

For those who enjoy this brand of wholly mindless entertainment, Crank delivers.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A jacked-up, unapologetically mindless bit of ADD-prescribed escapism that more or less delivers on a nifty premise.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Associated Press (Top Critic)

Writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's previous work lies mainly in making commercials -- the quick-cutting aesthetic employed here.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Ordona Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

50

While Crank has its moments, the line stringing them together isn't wound taut enough.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

Full Review » 3 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

Gets by on a unique kind of absurd, deadpan humor in which the most implausible stuff cheerfully happens anyway.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review

40

Full Review » 4 years ago
JoBlo JoBlo's Movie Emporium

80

Full Review » 4 years ago
Brian Tallerico UGO

Sure, Crank is totally ridiculous, unbelievable, exhausting, and pretty much just plain stupid, but that's what makes it fun.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Bruce Feld Film Journal International

Ranks among the most mindless action films ever made, but scores as a helluva video game.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Walter Chaw Film Freak Central

63

The super-concentrated silt at the bottom of a chemistry experiment that has no possible purpose to it but to deliver whatever limited jolt of which it's capable.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness

50

Its freneticism ... futilely tries to cover up the ludicrousness of every decision made by its dim characters.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Bullz-Eye.com

40

Full Review » 5 years ago
Kam Williams BlackFilm.com

100

Assaults the senses tirelessly with wave after wave of momentum-building intensity, with Jason Statham enjoying his best role since The Transporter.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3BlackChicks Review

You might just want to catch a matinee or wait for the DVD. This is definitely not worth your 10 bucks.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

60

Adrenalina e de uma idiotice contagiante.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Some of the directing touches are fun, but the Grand Theft Auto overdrive wears thin quick.
Full Review » 6 years ago