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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.
2006 · Directed by Brian Taylor · 88 min · Action · Thriller · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
There are a thousand ways to raise your adrenaline. Today, Chev Chelios will need every single one.
Plot
L.A.–based Englishman Chev Chelios works as a hitman under Don "Carlito" Carlos's crime empire. Chelios is contracted by Carlito to kill Don Kim, a mafia boss, because members of the Triads have been encroaching on Carlito's business. Chelios goes to Don Kim and apparently kills him. In the confusion, Ricky Verona, an ambitious small-time criminal, uses the opportunity to conspire with Carlito against Chelios: Verona will kill Chelios so the Triads won't retaliate, and then take Chelios's place as Carlito's newly hired gun.
While Chelios sleeps in his apartment, Verona and his brother Alex, along with several henchmen break into the apartment and inject Chelios with a Chinese synthetic drug, dubbed the Beijing Cocktail, which inhibits the flow of adrenaline, slowing the heart and eventually killing the victim. Chelios wakes to find a recording left by Verona showing what he has done. A furious Chelios calls Doc Miles, a mafia surgeon, and Miles informs Chelios that to survive he must keep his adrenaline pumping through constant excitement and danger and is unsure if the antidote exists.
Chelios keeps up his adrenaline through risky and dangerous acts, which include picking fights with other gangsters and police, reckless driving and motorcycling, taking illegal drugs, and having public sex with his girlfriend Eve. Chelios visits Carlito at his penthouse and asks him to help find an antidote as well as to find and kill Verona and his crew. Carlito says there is no antidote and only confirms that Carlito and Verona are working together. Carlito tells Chelios that he will use his death as a scapegoat against the Chinese.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
- Cinematography: Adam Biddle
- Edited by: Brian Berdan
- Music: Paul Haslinger
- Production design: Jerry Fleming
- Produced by: Michael Davis, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Skip Williamson
Cast
- Jason Statham as Chev
- Amy Smart as Eve
- Jose Pablo Cantillo as Verona
- Efren Ramirez as Kaylo
- Dwight Yoakam as Doc Miles
- Carlos Sanz as Carlito
- Reno Wilson as Orlando
- Edi Gathegi as Haitian Cabbie
- Glenn Howerton as Hospital Doctor
- Jay Xcala as Alex
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish, Korean
- Studios: Lakeshore Entertainment, RadicalMedia, GreeneStreet Films, Lionsgate
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $42,900,000
- Themes: assassin, helicopter, hitman, poison, fistfight, swimming pool, revenge, shootout, motorcycle, drugs
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