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Yet another D.O.A. for the ADD era.
In Crank: High Voltage, Statham just looks miserable, as if appearing in this lousy picture just sucked all the heart right out of him.
Crank: High Voltage, starring Jason Statham as a man with a machine instead of a heart, is boorish, bigoted and borderline pornographic.
Tasteless, trashy and totally over the top, Crank: High Voltage might also be one of the year's most inventive movies. Sometimes, nothing exceeds like excess.
The movie feels like a form of aversion therapy designed to take the fun out of dumb.
It's so amped up that High Voltage suffers its own energy shortage well before the finale. It's also every bit as stupid as it sounds.
Feels like shock for shock's sake instead of something morbidly inventive like the first one.
Copping to how unrealistic your movie is by excusing it (no, no, it's a video game!), rather than running with it, is a mistake that Taylor and Neveldine never recover from.
...an agreeable companion piece to its admittedly superior predecessor.
Waking up in the aftermath of a meth-lab explosion might be less disorienting than watching this. And if you think there's no room for more, Neveldine/Taylor are probably a weekend and a bag of crack-filled Pixie Stix away from proving you wrong.
See this f%$&*ing movie, mate.
Basically the co-writers and co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor sneer at any kind of rules, decorum or morality. Anything goes, as long as it's within the realm of exploitation-level "B" moviemaking.
It won't convince Crank: High Voltage's naysayers, but for those on the film's insane wavelength, it's a worthy DVD package.
Both exhilarating and exhausting, it falls just short of a fever pitch.
...just as sloppily caffeinated as before, with an extra layer of scummy race jokes.
The only shocking thing about it is how dull and predictable the whole enterprise is.
Adrenaline-propelled and outrageously offensive, it's a cinematic video game that's neither coherent nor credible.
Grisly, gory, over-the-top action-parody isn't for kids.
What you really get here is the same movie all over again -- only more so.
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