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Crank High Voltage (2009)

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Reviews Counted:64

Fresh:40

Rotten:24

Average Rating:5.7/10

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

Rated: 18 [See Full Rating] for frenetic strong bloody violence throughout, crude and graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language.

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:16-04-2009

Synopsis: In the 2006 action hit Crank, hitman Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) spent twenty-four hours in over-drive: fighting, killing, and keeping his adrenaline flowing at full-force to combat a deadly... In the 2006 action hit Crank, hitman Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) spent twenty-four hours in over-drive: fighting, killing, and keeping his adrenaline flowing at full-force to combat a deadly poison injected into his body. Now, in the high-octane sequel Crank High Voltage, Chev has managed to survive -- and is about to face a brand new day.

Picking up immediately where the first movie left off, Crank High Voltage finds Chev surviving the climactic plunge to his most certain death on the streets of Los Angeles, only to be kidnapped by a mysterious Chinese mobster. Three months later, Chev wakes up to discover his nearly indestructible heart has been surgically removed and replaced with a battery-operated ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity in order to work.

After a dangerous escape from his captors, Chev is on the run again, this time from the charismatic Mexican gang boss El Huron (Clifton Collins, Jr.), and the Chinese Triads, headed by the dangerous 100 year-old elder Poon Dong (David Carradine). Once again turning to Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam) for medical advice, receiving help from his friend Kaylo’s twin brother Venus (Efren Ramirez), and re-connecting with his girlfriend Eve (Amy Smart), who is no longer in the dark about what he does for a living, Chev is determined to get his real heart back and wreak vengeance on whoever stole it, embarking on an electrifying chase through Los Angeles where anything goes to stay alive.

Lakeshore Entertainment and Lionsgate present Crank High Voltage, a Lakeshore Entertainment / Lionsgate Production In Association with @radical.media; produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Skip Williamson and Richard Wright. The film was written and directed by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, the duo behind the 2006 original.--© Lionsgate [More]

Starring: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Clifton Collins, Efren Ramirez

Starring: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Clifton Collins, Efren Ramirez, Bai Ling, David Carradine, Reno Wilson, Joseph Julian Soria, Dwight Yoakam, Corey Haim, Keone Young, Art Hsu

Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Screenwriter: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, Skip Williamson
Composer: Mike Patton
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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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 Source: SFX Magazine | comment Comment
04/21/09
Leah Holmes
Leah Holmes
SFX Magazine

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

Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
04/20/09
John Hazelton
John Hazelton
Screen International

The Stath is pretty much the most bankable name in action movies today, and his unhinged work in High Voltage, indulging in an explosion of murder and mayhem with gusto and glee, should certainly see him retain that title.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies UK | comment 4 Comments
04/17/09
Chris Tilly
Chris Tilly
IGN Movies UK

Stick two fingers up at the moral majority... then shove them in the High Voltage socket and get ready to have your socks blown off.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment 1 Comment
04/17/09
Elliott Noble
Elliott Noble
Sky Movies

Proof that you can make good movies based on video games, as long as you don’t bother making a video game first. Juice us up for Crank 3D.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/17/09
Helen OHara
Helen OHara
Empire Magazine
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The whole film is a series of frenetically-edited action sequences and bizarre set-pieces roughly stitched together to form some kind of whole. It’s been made with tongue firmly in cheek and is often funny for it.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment 1 Comment
04/17/09
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out
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The admirably unrestrained Taylor and Neveldine just about manage to sustain the charge in this fizzing battery of a movie, which only starts going flat towards the end.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
04/17/09
Daniel Etherington
Daniel Etherington
Channel 4 Film
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Not quite as much fun as the from-nowhere original, but still, y’know, fackin’ shocking.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
04/17/09
Andy Lowe
Andy Lowe
Total Film

It's a hyperactive, relentlessly violent and po-faced mean S.O.B. - and I guarantee you'll ¢¾ every minute.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
04/17/09
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

This fest of violence, breasts, sex, swearing and dodgy plot turns can only be enjoyed if you don’t take it seriously.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
04/17/09
Sun Online

Crank 2: High Voltage is still an entertaining sequel but it lacks the spark of the original film and never quite reaches the same delirious heights.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
04/17/09
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Thanks to Statham, it's often tremendous fun – and sometimes just surreal (check the Geri Halliwell cameo) – so it's too bad its demeaning, indefensible attitude towards women and casual racism leaves such a sour taste in the mouth.

Full Review Source: Scotsman | comment Comment
04/17/09
Alistair Harkness
Alistair Harkness
Scotsman

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.

Full Review Source: Examiner.com | comment Comment
11/09/09
Adam Lippe
Adam Lippe
Examiner.com

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

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
11/07/09
David Nusair
David Nusair
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.

Full Review Source: Suite101.com | comment Comment
10/15/09
Nick Rogers
Nick Rogers
Suite101.com

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

Full Review Source: KyleSmithOnline.com | comment Comment
09/11/09
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
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.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
09/10/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

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

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/01/09
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson
Variety
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Both exhilarating and exhausting, it falls just short of a fever pitch.

Full Review Source: Suite101.com | comment Comment
06/02/09
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Suite101.com

Click for full review

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
05/10/09
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses
 
 
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