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.
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... [More]
Starring: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Clifton Collins, Efren Ramirez
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Reviews for Crank High Voltage
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 4.5/5 |
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 |
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A self-consciously crazy action romp which overdoses on cartoonish violence and non-PC comedy. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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 |
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4/5 |
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 |
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3/5 |
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 |
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3/6 |
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 |
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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 |
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3/5 |
Not quite as much fun as the from-nowhere original, but still, y’know, fackin’ shocking. Full Review |
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4/5 |
It's a hyperactive, relentlessly violent and po-faced mean S.O.B. - and I guarantee you'll ¢¾ every minute. Full Review |
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4/5 |
This fest of violence, breasts, sex, swearing and dodgy plot turns can only be enjoyed if you don’t take it seriously. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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 |
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2/5 |
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 |
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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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
...an agreeable companion piece to its admittedly superior predecessor. Full Review |
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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 |
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3/4 |
See this f%$&*ing movie, mate. Full Review |
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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 |
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Yet another D.O.A. for the ADD era. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Both exhilarating and exhausting, it falls just short of a fever pitch. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
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