With a premise ripped off from D.O.A. (1950) and a twist lifted from SPEED (1994), this Jason Statham vehicle from a two-man writing-directing team billed as "Neveldine/Taylor" manufactures a formula that guarantees maximum action but not much else. Crime-syndicate hit man Chev Chelios (Statham) comes to in his apartment with a baseball-sized lump on the back of his head and a disc in his DVD player explaining that while he was sleeping, a thug named Ricky Verona (a hammy Jose Pablo Cantillo, who appears to have taken notes from Cuba Gooding Jr.) has injected him with a "Beijing cocktail," a "hi-tech, sci-fi, synthetic Chinese" drug that acts as a powerful adrenaline...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
87 mins