Starring Jason Statham, Jose Pablo Cantillo and Amy Smart. Directed and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, Skip Williamson and Michael Davis.
The Review
Chev Chelios (Jason Statham), a British hit man, wakes up after mysteriously being knocked out the night before. He soon discovers he’s been injected with a “Beijing Cocktail,” a drug that will kill him within the hour unless he keeps his adrenaline pumping through the use of specific drugs. But there’s no cure, and before the day is out he will die. What’s a man to do with the short time he has left? If you guessed that our hero would resort to the provocative Hamlet -- musing on death and eternity -- you’d be very wrong. Instead, Chev intends to get revenge, specifically on Ricky Verona (Jose Pablo Cantillo), the thug who injected him, but eventually he ends up taking on virtually the whole of Los Angeles’ crime underworld.
