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Derek Malcolm's rating
Every bit of rage an angry man can muster
By
Derek Malcolm
31 Aug 2006
No one could complain that Jason Statham doesn't engage wholeheartedly with his character Chev Chelios in this tricksy LA thriller. Chev is a gangster who has been injected with a Chinese potion that requires him to keep his heart pounding fast throughout the day - or die within an hour.
The gangster rampages through town, destroying half of it on the way, in order to avoid slipping into eternity-snorting cocaine off a toilet floor to help him keep going.
The potion has also given him a permanent erection. This fascinates a busload of Japanese tourists who happen to be passing as he has sex in public with his girlfriend (Amy Smart).
The film, made by two first-time writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, is energetic, fast and meant to be funny as well as thrilling. Remarkably, Statham is its equal: he's a frenetic hero, the like of which one has seldom seen.
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I can't help but suspect that it might be slightly awful.
- Ben, New Jersey, USA, 01/09/2006 04:11
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