"What Crank amounts to is an 87-minute music video full of physical brutality, robbery, drugging, and sex. It's alright to be a fan of these types of things in film, but one must also realize that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing."
"what better way to ooze atmosphere than to set a film in the darkness below ground, in the claustrophobic confines of ever-tightening tunnels, where nobody knows what might lurk in the shadows or around the next bend?"
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.