30/11/2025
š¬Crank 3: Shockwave
Jason Statham | Amy Smart | Dwight Yoakam | Clifton Collins Jr.
āOne more pulse. One last rampage.ā
Chev Chelios should be dead. No, he was deadāelectrocuted, shot, dropped from the sky, burned alive. But death canāt hold the man who lives on rage and voltage. Crank 3: Shockwave begins where the last one left offāin chaos. Chevās 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 minuteā¦ boom.
Now Chelios is back on the streets. But this time, itās not just about survivalāitās 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 donāt 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 passionāthink motorcycles through airports and romantic slow-mo shootouts. Dwight Yoakamās 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 āStatic,ā a punk hacker anarchist who livestreams Chevās every moveāturning his fight into a global spectacle with fans betting on whether he explodes.
The cinematography is even more chaotic than beforeābody 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 doesnāt just fightāhe charges.
But thereās a strange soul under the skin. Statham gives Chelios an edge of pathosāhe knows heās running out of time, and beneath the fury, thereās a man desperate to die on his own terms. Itās 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, profaneāand kind of brilliant.
Rating: 8.4/10
