Crank 2: High Voltage (2009)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 66
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 24
Crank: High Voltage delivers on its promises: a fast-paced, exciting thrill ride that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 7
Crank: High Voltage delivers on its promises: a fast-paced, exciting thrill ride that doesn't take itself too seriously.
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The indestructible hopped-up hitman Chev Chelios, played to the hilt once again by Jason Statham, returns in Crank High Voltage, picking up where the first film left off -- except this time, Chelios is chasing a Chinese gangster who hijacked his heart and substituted it with a mechanical one that needs to be jolted with an electric charge to stay pumping. Back for the fun is Chev's girlfriend Eve ({Amy Smart}) and his physician Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), who, as luck has it, turns out to be an
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Jason Statham
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Amy Smart
Eve -
Clifton Collins Jr.
El Huron -
Efren Ramirez
Venus -
Ling Bai
Rai -
Dwight Yoakam
Doc Miles -
David Carradine
Poon Dong -
Reno Wilson
Orlando -
Joseph Julian Soria
Chico -
Corey Haim
Randy
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All Critics (69) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (24) | DVD (1)
Yet another D.O.A. for the ADD era.
Top CriticIn 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.
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...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.
Audience Reviews for Crank 2: High Voltage
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- Chev Chelios: I lost the belt battery, doc
- Doc Miles: How long ago?
- Chev Chelios: Over an hour.
- Doc Miles: Jesus Christ, that's not fucking possible, Chevy! You should be dead, fine, nevermind.
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- Rai: You want sticky me?
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- Doc Miles: Confucius say 'Karma's a bitch.'
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- Chev Chelios: Just juice me.
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- Chev Chelios: Tiger Fucking Woods. Never better. Greatest day of my fucking life.
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- Chev Chelios: A man called The Ferret.
- Venus: El Huron.
- Chev Chelios: You know him?
- Venus: No. It means The Ferret in Spanish.
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This is pure and utter mayhem from start to finish, it IS a computer game, guns, guns, big guns, tits, ass, naked girls, more tits and ass, bullet wounds, graphic sex n violence, swearing to the max, unreal situations, gangs, knives and a whole load of shaky cam work.
But don't be put of as this is a good pile of adrenaline soaked in petrol, its totally crazy and yet extremely fun. The stupid plot is lost as you stare wide eyed at the carnage unfolding before you, the film never lets up for one sec as you move from one nipple slicing sequence to the next (the over the top graphic novel style violence does remind me of 'Robocop'). Statham really excels here too, his rough cockney image blends so well in the melting pot of LA (you wouldn't think) and his grizzled appearance does go down in cinema character history along side other classics's such as 'Snake Plissken'.
Apart from a rather quick and unexpected ending which is a shame this is great fun with plenty for all pervs and gun nuts hahaha much better than the first outing.