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Crank 2: High Voltage

Crank 2: High Voltage (2009)

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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 67
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 25

Crank: High Voltage delivers on its promises: a fast-paced, exciting thrill ride that doesn't take itself too seriously.

36

Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 4 | 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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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 249,173

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Movie Info

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

R, 1 hr. 25 min.

Action & Adventure, Comedy

,

Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

Sep 8, 2009

$13.6M

Lionsgate

All Critics (70) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (25) | DVD (1)

Yet another D.O.A. for the ADD era.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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In Crank: High Voltage, Statham just looks miserable, as if appearing in this lousy picture just sucked all the heart right out of him.

April 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comments (3)
Salon.com
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Crank: High Voltage, starring Jason Statham as a man with a machine instead of a heart, is boorish, bigoted and borderline pornographic.

April 20, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comments (15)
New York Times
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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.

April 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment (1)
Toronto Star
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The movie feels like a form of aversion therapy designed to take the fun out of dumb.

April 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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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.

April 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comments (3)
Orlando Sentinel
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Feels like shock for shock's sake instead of something morbidly inventive like the first one.

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinematical | Comment
Cinematical

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.

November 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Examiner.com | Comment
Examiner.com

...an agreeable companion piece to its admittedly superior predecessor.

November 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

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.

October 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Suite101.com | Comment
Suite101.com

See this f%$&*ing movie, mate.

September 11, 2009 Full Review Source: KyleSmithOnline.com | Comment (1)
KyleSmithOnline.com

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.

September 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

It won't convince Crank: High Voltage's naysayers, but for those on the film's insane wavelength, it's a worthy DVD package.

September 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Both exhilarating and exhausting, it falls just short of a fever pitch.

June 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Suite101.com | Comment
Suite101.com

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May 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

...just as sloppily caffeinated as before, with an extra layer of scummy race jokes.

May 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment (1)
Sacramento News & Review

The only shocking thing about it is how dull and predictable the whole enterprise is.

April 24, 2009 Comments (4)
Salt Lake Tribune

Adrenaline-propelled and outrageously offensive, it's a cinematic video game that's neither coherent nor credible.

April 23, 2009 Full Review | Comments (6)
SSG Syndicate

Grisly, gory, over-the-top action-parody isn't for kids.

April 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (8)
Common Sense Media

What you really get here is the same movie all over again -- only more so.

April 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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Audience Reviews for Crank 2: High Voltage

Gleefully offensive, satirical, brutally violent, racist, and hectic. One of the most insane, irreverent, and politically incorrect films I've ever seen.

September 13, 2011
Kevin Cookman

Super Reviewer

Crank 2 has even bigger balls than the first. Making a sequel was a risky concept, seeing as he died in the first film and all but then it's not really a film that takes itself too seriously. I love the dialogue, the snappy editing and the quirky interruptions. It's the logical progression of the action film in my

May 24, 2011
SirPant

Super Reviewer

    1. Rai: You need me like Whitney Houston dude!
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)
    1. Chev Chelios: Who's got my fucking strawberry tart?
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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