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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.

Australian Rating: TBC

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Australian Theatrical Release:
Nov 30, 1999 Wide

US Box Office: $13,630,226

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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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 1 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

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

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
05/01/09
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

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

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment 2 Comments
04/24/09
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

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

Full Review Source: SSG Syndicate | comment 4 Comments
04/23/09
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
SSG Syndicate

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

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment 6 Comments
04/22/09
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Common Sense Media

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

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
04/22/09
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Ron Jeremy, who makes a cameo appearance, is too good for this movie and he's done porn and "The Surreal Life."

Full Review Source: Gazette (MD) | comment 5 Comments
04/22/09
Jeffrey Lyles
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)

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 Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
04/22/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

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

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
04/21/09
Sean Burns
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly

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

Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | comment 16 Comments
04/21/09
Jackie K. Cooper
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

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

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.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment 1 Comment
04/20/09
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

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
 
 
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