Crank

A professional hitman, Chev Chelios wakes up with severe grogginess and blurred vision. After stumbling around his apartment, he discovers a DVD inscribed with...See more » A professional hitman, Chev Chelios wakes up with severe grogginess and blurred vision. After stumbling around his apartment, he discovers a DVD inscribed with the words "Fuck You". On the DVD, rival gangster Verona injects Chelios's unconscious body with a poison called the "Beijing Cocktail", claiming that it will kill him in an hour. Chelios flies into a rage and destroys the television playing the film, then runs to his Buick Riviera and speeds through Los Angeles. In his fury, Chev notes that his grogginess has alleviated. He places several calls, first to his girlfriend Eve (Amy Smart), but she does not answer. He then calls Doctor Miles (Dwight Yoakam), in hopes of having some sort of antidote, but Miles is not even in Los Angeles at the moment. Next, he calls his friend Kaylo to pinpoint Verona and his associates' location. Chev then heads to a bar and holds a gun up to a former affiliate, Orlando, to help track down the location of Verona. Since Orlando does not know where Verona is, Chev buys cocaine from him and then attacks his friends to pump up his adrenaline. As he speeds away, several police units begin to chase him. As Chelios flees the police, Doctor Miles calls and tells him that he needs to go to the hospital and get epinephrine, a substitute adrenaline. During the conversation, Chev evades police by driving through an indoor mall, crashes his car on the escalator, and flees in a taxi. During the drive, he stops to fill a trashbag full of mini-thins (an over-the-counter stimulant) and caffeinated drinks. Chev goes to the mansion of Carlito, a crime lord with whom he is affiliated. Chev jumps into the pool to talk with him, but Carlito will not help him. As he speeds off in the taxi, Kaylo calls and tells him that Verona's brother is in a particular restaurant. Chev enters the restaurant and draws Verona's brother into an alley, where Chev slices off his gun-hand with a meat cleaver. The two men wrestle with each other, and Kaylo joins in with a rolling pin. Chev's gun is defective from his dip in the pool, so he picks up the severed hand holding the gun and shoots Verona's brother, killing him. He then calls Verona, who is surprised to see that he is still alive. He pulls a necklace off of Verona's brother and tells him he is coming to kill him and his crew. Chev then goes to the hospital, where the pharmacist refuses him epinephrine and leaves to call the police. A young man nearby tells Chev that there is epinephrine in nasal spray. Chev grabs multiple boxes and begins snorting each bottle. Police begin pursuing him, so he dons a hospital gown as a disguise, which proves ineffective. At gunpoint, he demands epinephrine from several doctors and nurses pushing a gurney with a patient on it. As a nurse fumbles with the gurneys medicine drawers, the police follow with guns drawn. The nurse eventually finds the epinephrine and gives it to Chev. Chev then tells the nurse to use the defibrillator on him, which throws him back into an elevator. After the doors close, Chev injects himself with the full vial of epinephrine. With the massive amount of epinephrine in his body, Chev begins running crazily throughout the streets of Los Angeles in a rather humorous scene. Doctor Miles calls again and yells at him for taking too much epinephrine. Chev soon comes to a TV store where the news reports on his rampage. A man looks at Chev recognizes him from the mug shot. Chev leaves the crowd and steals a police motorcycle and drives to his girlfriend Eve's apartment. When he gets there, he tells her that they need to leave and she gets dressed. Chev gets exhausted and burns his left hand on a waffle iron to wake himself up. The two leave, and Chev kills two assassins sent by Verona without Eve noticing. In a Chinatown restaurant, Chev reveals that he is actually a hit man, not a video game programmer as she thought. He tells her that he has been injected with poison, and that he did not complete his last assignment to kill the gangster Don Kim so that they could run away together. She angrily leaves the restaurant,See less »