Crank (film)/YMMV
- Crosses the Line Twice: Especially noticeable in Crank: High Voltage. Violence against women: Bad. Stripper getting shot in her breast implants, which then ooze out and deflate while she cries: Hilarious.
- There are A LOT of Asian stereotypes, especially in the second film. Then again, it is the late David Carradine...
- Crowning Moment of Awesome: The whole thing. No, really. Justified. It's a plot point.
- "Hey, doll. Looks like I let you down again..."
- Chev Chelios is a man who, while completely on fire, will throw the man he's fighting into a pool. Then walk away.
- And after he's walked away he gives a melting middle finger to the audience!
- Chev's doctor and his girlfriend successfully kidnapping Poon Dong and extracting his heart.
- Crowning Moment of Funny: "Why'd you stop?" "What, so you can fall asleep like you always do?"
- "I'm ALIIIIIIVE!"
- Then he dies.
- "Many Triads would give the hearts from their own breasts to save Poon Dong. Not me though, fuck that, but many."
- "You killed my brother mother fucker, prepare to die."
- The entire epinephrine scene, which begins with Chelios running down the street screaming, wearing only a hospital gown, while British speed metal plays in the background.
- "I'm ALIIIIIIVE!"
- Designated Hero: Chelios is an exceptionally violent, uncaring individual established to be a mob hitman and he will generally wreck anyone's day at the slightest excuse. The only real reason he's established as the good guy with any clarity is that everyone else is even worse.
- It does help that he apparently lives in a Crapsack World that's like a Hollywood-ized Jhonen Vasquez creation.
- Fan Service: The movie basically pushes the R rating as absolutely far as it will go, in terms of nudity and sex as well as profanity and violence.
- Holy Shit Quotient[context?]
- I Am Not Shazam: No, Jason Statham does not play a guy named Crank. Apparently nobody else does...
- MST3K Mantra: Invoked in the beginning of the second film. A news reporter comments on the implausibility of someone (Verona) falling from the sky randomly being "bullshit". His words.
- Non Sequitur Scene: The power station fight in the second movie, which turns into a kaiju parody with caricatures of the two combatants.
- When Venus first meets Bai Ling's character, she throws a tantrum, and his full body Tourettes' starts acting up. Cue twitch dance off.
- To a certain extent, the entirety of the second movie, which is much more violent and comedic than the first.
- In the climax of the first film, Chev randomly bleats like a goat.
- Special Effects Failure/ Conspicuous CG: Ricky Verona's head in the tank.
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