Its not great when it comes to its story or characters but when you have a guy who needs to feel adrenaline to stay alive and the film feels like we experience that with him it becomes a blast.
The cinematography is average at best(who cares tho) and the music helps it in evoking the feeling of a coked up adrenaline feeling experience.
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There are a thousand ways to raise your adrenaline. Today, Chev Chelios will need every single one.
Rating
3.5 (2)
Release Date
8/31/2006Runtime
88 minsOverview
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.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$12,000,000Revenue
$42,900,000Homepage
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How It Feels
Read from this film's synopsis, keywords and credits, and used to work out what it sits beside.
A relentless, deliberately ridiculous sprint through Los Angeles where the only plot is adrenaline itself, a film that treats its own premise as a video game and dares you to keep up.
Mood
ExhilaratingAbsurdTensePlayful
Themes
RevengeSurvivalObsession
Tone
Ironic
Pacing
Propulsive
Look
HandheldStylized genreHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violence
Reviews
I like Jason Statham and Amy Smart. This would probably have been a fun theater movie, and maybe I saw it in the theaters which is why I thought I liked it more than I actually like it.
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