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Crank (2006)

★ 6.7 · 4,184 ratings on TMDB

There are a thousand ways to raise your adrenaline. Today, Chev Chelios will need every single one.

Crank poster★ 6.7

Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.

DirectorBrian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
CastAmy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Dwight Yoakam, Edi Gathegi, Efren Ramirez, Glenn Howerton
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Crank keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6adrenalineadrenaline production blocked, forcing the host to generate adrenaline only through extreme excitement (biology · personal)
Also inFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also bends a rule of reality

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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