Crank: High Voltage
Crank: High Voltage
R | 16 April 2009 (USA)
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Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

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Stometer

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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MoPoshy

Absolutely brilliant

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Odelecol

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

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Kaydan Christian

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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Tweekums

After falling a mile from a helicopter at the end of 'Crank' it looked as if Chev Chelios was finally dead but as this sequel opens we see a group of Chinese gangsters scraping him off the road and taking him away. It turns out he is not dead… yet. The Triads want his superior organs for illegal transplants. They take his heart and give him a battery powered replacement. When he wakes up three months later he decides to get his own heart back. The battery back for his new heart is quickly broken so he must keep finding ways to charge the heart's internal 'one hour' battery. He must also confront a wide variety threats; these include Chinese gangsters, Mexican gangsters and the police. He also bumps into his old girlfriend, Eve, and Venus, the brother of his late friend Kaylo. While Chelios is searching for his heart gangsters are searching for him to get their revenge for what he did in the first film.If you didn't enjoy the first film you will hate this as it is basically the same but even more exaggerated; there is lots of gratuitous violence, lots of gratuitous swearing, a fair amount of gratuitous nudity and a gratuitous sex scene on a race track which takes place during a horse race in front of hundreds of spectators… that is a lot of gratuitous goings on but if you aren't offended it is pretty funny. Jason Statham is great as Chelios; he might not be a great actor but when it comes to this sort of role there aren't many people as good as him. Amy Smart is pretty solid as Eve and Bai Ling is funny as Ria, a prostitute Chelios saves leading to her following him from then on. The rest of the cast are fairly forgettable but good enough. The action is exciting in an over the top way and there were plenty of laugh out loud moments… more than some comedies. The ways he finds to recharge his battery are imaginative and often pretty funny. Overall I'd say that this isn't for the easily offended but if you are looking for over-the-top action with plenty of laughs you could do much worse.

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fedor8

I sense a distinct fear in whoever conceived this nonsense. Fear of failure at the box-office? For sure. But not just fear: tons of insecurity as well. It might just be that trashy, cretinous, over-the-top flicks like these are created by film-makers unsure of their ability to deliver more conventional (read: non-retarded) filmic product. When you know – or fear - that you can't cut it in mainstream (which is bad enough as it is) you either do something much better – or much worse, as is the case with C2:HV. Or perhaps this IS mainstream? These days, what do I know: I'm not a 21st-century 15 year-old snot-picker: dumb, brainwashed, spoiled, out of touch with reality, confused, jaded, and decadent beyond my years. I don't follow the action-movie scene much, so it's possible that what I'd just witnessed was a standard entry in the dead-as-a-doorknob action genre. It's not as if C2:HV is noticeably dumber than any of the "Transporter" movies, or almost any other action flick farted out these days out of the derrieres of cocaine-sniffing, silicone-paying Hollywood imbeciles.I actually liked the first "Crank" movie because it was fun, exciting, fresh, original and silly. Not too silly, not too overboard, with roughly the acceptable amount of fantasy and science-fiction nonsense to strike a decent balance between the traditional and the extreme-for-the-sake-of-it just-plain-stupid. Once again, I come back to the subject of insecurity and fear. "The first movie was nuts, so this time we need to go WAY beyond that, and make the film a thousand times crazier!" said a crack-smoking Hollywood producer and saw a bunch of brown-nosing yuppie losers nod their heads in sycophantic agreement.I have no problems with a film not taking itself seriously; there are many examples of how that can work. But – in skillful hands only. The logic behind this movie is that if 100 grams of sugar give your brain a nice rush, then 5 tons of sugar will be 5000 times as enjoyable. Give a monkey a brain and watch him rule a Hollywood meeting.By the time the first half-hour was over, I'd lost all interest in the plot, the characters, and all the tension (whatever little left there was) was completely gone. In an action comedy you'd better make sure the gags work, because the thin, irrelevant plot will not carry the weight of the film's stupidity on its own. The gags are mostly horrible because written by a team of badly-trained Californian apes.Lucky for them that they had Statham and Mike Patton's fairly decent soundtrack, otherwise this movie would have been a straight-to-the sewer release.

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juneebuggy

This was equally as good as the first Crank, although in saying that you've also then seen it all before so it loses some of its uniqueness and crazy charm.Anyways, its another adrenaline filled hot mess, with indestructible hit man Chev Chelios trying to find the Chinese Gangster who harvested his heart. He's been outfitted with an electronic one that requires a blast of electricity to keep pumping as he again wreaks havoc on LA in his quest.All the faces from the original return (in very clever ways) as well as Bai Ling who was just freakin' nuts but very in tune with the whole vibe. There was a lot of gratuitous T&A this time around and a couple scenes I actually had to turn away from (slicing off of elbows and nipples) We also get a redeux of the public sex scene, this time at the race track and it was just hilarious.I love the way this is filmed, all choppy and random. I may have seen it all before but I'd watch another one of these movies. The outtakes during the credits are very funny too. 01.15.14

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FlashCallahan

Chev Chelios is in an unknown location, sedated, while various Chinese are harvesting his organs. His heart is gone, in an ice chest; a temporary battery powered one in its place. Chev escapes, calls Doc Miles, who tells him there's only an hour's life in the artificial heart, and to keep it charged. Chev needs to find his own heart and get to the Doc for a transplant. He starts his time-limited pursuit of shadowy figures, and his heart........If a film was ever an acquired taste, then this must be the definition. This film makes the first movie look as serious as The 400 Blows. It's as if Neveldine and Taylor went on a huge bender and in their deepest darkest hour, they came up with this, experiment.To sum the film up would be extremely difficult, but if you were to imagine, Manga, Looney Tunes, and a little eighties Jackie Chan, you can only just scrape the edge on the bizarreness of what you will see.But the film works, because you cannot do anything but just go with it. Like a roller coaster, its painful to begin with, but then you get the rush, and just go with it.Statham is brilliant, and the rest of the characters are pure bonkers.You'll either think this film is great, or you'll hate it.

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