12/08/2025
Crank 3: Shockwave
Jason Statham | Amy Smart | Dwight Yoakam | Clifton Collins Jr.
“One more pulse. One last rampage.”
Chev Chelios should be dead. No, he was dead—electrocuted, shot, dropped from the sky, burned alive. But death can’t hold the man who lives on rage and voltage. Crank 3: Shockwave begins where the last one left off—in chaos. Chev’s body is recovered from the smoldering wreckage by a rogue biotech firm in Bangkok, who rebuild him using a volatile, prototype energy core that draws power from surrounding electromagnetic fields. The only catch? If his charge drops for even a minute… boom.
Now Chelios is back on the streets. But this time, it’s not just about survival—it’s about detonation. A global paramilitary group wants to capture his energy core and use it to power a new kind of tactical nuke. Chev? He just wants his heart back, a real one, and maybe some peace. But he knows better. Peace is for people who don’t wake up screaming.
Amy Smart returns as Eve, still impossibly loyal, a little crazier, and a lot more dangerous. Their love scenes are equal parts mayhem and passion—think motorcycles through airports and romantic slow-mo shootouts. Dwight Yoakam’s Doc Miles is back, strung out and brilliant as ever, helping Chev with field repairs using duct tape, whiskey, and a cattle prod.
New to the madness is Clifton Collins Jr. as “Static,” a punk hacker anarchist who livestreams Chev’s every move—turning his fight into a global spectacle with fans betting on whether he explodes.
The cinematography is even more chaotic than before—body cams, jump cuts, hallucinations. Neon Bangkok becomes a sensory nightmare. The action is constant: car chases, skydiving gunfights, and even a hand-to-hand brawl inside a particle accelerator. Chev doesn’t just fight—he charges.
But there’s a strange soul under the skin. Statham gives Chelios an edge of pathos—he knows he’s running out of time, and beneath the fury, there’s a man desperate to die on his own terms. It’s surprisingly touching. Almost mythic.
The finale? An orbital elevator mid-collapse, lightning storms, a kiss in zero-G, and a final punch that echoes like a thunderclap.
Crank 3 is loud, insane, profane—and kind of brilliant.
Rating: 8.4/10
