Crank 2: High Voltage Reviews

Feels like shock for shock's sake instead of something morbidly inventive like the first one.

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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.

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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.

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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

| Original Score: 1/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The directing and writing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have between them a boundless imagination, constantly topping one absurdly overstated moment with another, even more absurd.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Bigger, dumber and even sicker than the rotgut original... I had a blast, but don't say you weren't warned.

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So gross, brutal and just plain bad that I may never want to see another Jason Statham movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

Crank: High Voltage is a real celebration of the phrase "Why not?". It's big, loud and brainless - and it's all the more glorious for it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

The constant escalation to [the filmmakers'] inventive insanity is so breathtaking, it's like a slap in the face to the tired hacks who make the glossy hidebound junk that passes for an action movie these days.

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A self-consciously crazy action romp which overdoses on cartoonish violence and non-PC comedy.