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- Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
- Chev Chelios survives a fall from the sky, sort of. He's in an unknown location, sedated, while various Chinese are harvesting his organs. His heart is gone, in an ice chest; a temporary in its place. Chev escapes, knowing only the name of the guy with the ice chest. He calls Doc Miles, an unlicensed cardiologist, who tells him there's only an hour's life in the artificial heart: keep it charged. Chev needs to find his own heart and get to Doc for a transplant. He starts his time-limited pursuit of shadowy figures, the ice chest, and his heart aided by Eve, Rei, and Venus - a stripper, a prostitute, and a pal with Tourette's - constantly needing an electric charge to keep going.
- I generally find loud, crude movies with pervasive filthy language very unentertaining. But this one is so funny, and so over-the-top, that it is hard to dislike it. I found myself marveling at the creativity of the writers and directors to find new and interesting ways to move the story forward.<br/><br/>Jason Statham is back again as Chev Chelios. At the end of "Crank" we saw him fall from a helicopter, onto a car, and bounce onto the street. In a fall that would have killed most merely mortal men, but we see an eye open as the movie ends.<br/><br/>Crank 2 starts exactly where the other one left off. We see a bunch of men scoop Chelios up and drive away with him before even the cops have a chance to figure out what is happening. Then Chelios finds himself in a makeshift operating room, they have just removed his heart and installed a mechanical heart with an external power supply. But why didn't they just let him die? Because someone (from the first movie) really wants to personally see him suffer and die.<br/><br/>So most of the movie has Chelios hunting down the person he believes has his heart in a small ice chest. When the battery runs down, he has to find unique ways to get a "charge" back, and some of them are very "electrifying"! But since he doesn't have a heart, he can take it.<br/><br/>Amy Smart is back as his girlfriend Eve Lydon. In the first movie they had to have sex on the street right in front of a crowd so that his adrenaline would keep flowing to ward off the Chinese poison that had been injected into him. In this movie he has to create some static electricity to keep his mechanical heart going, so they end up having sex on a track while a horse race is going on. While that sounds in very poor taste to think about it, in context of the movie it is a very funny scene.<br/><br/>Dwight Yoakam is also back, as Doc Miles who will try to re-implant Chelios' heart, if he can find it. Over-the-top and very funny is Ling Bai as Ria, chasing after "her man" Chelios. And, a key character is now-deceased David Carradine as the old Chinese Poon Dong.<br/><br/>I found the movie very entertaining, in a totally absurd way.
- Crank 2: High Voltage is a live-action cartoon. Once you grasp that, you're free to unplug your brain and enjoy the ride. To call this movie ridiculous is an understatement of the highest order, yet it never fails to entertain. The action is non-stop, the characters are all caricatures, and everyone involved surely had a blast filming this absurd romp. Amazingly, for a film so violent and overblown, there is a lot of comedy, and all of the performers involved deliver the goods. Jason Statham and Amy Smart reprise their roles and give it their all, but I don't know if I enjoyed any of the performances as much as I enjoyed Dwight Yoakam in his limited contribution to the show. The score must be mentioned as well, and anyone who enjoys the work of bizarro musician Mike Patton (Faith No More, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Peeping Tom, etc.) will get a major kick out of his delicious and entirely appropriate soundtrack. Here Patton has masterfully crafted a noisy assault on the senses that is just as jarring as the film it accompanies. If you liked the first Crank, I think you'll find that the directors made a better (and zanier) film this time out, but if you loathed the first one you should definitely ignore the sequel. The makers of High Voltage have offered up a ludicrous film that is brimming with violence and nudity. While it will certainly offend sensitive viewers, those who enjoy this type of film shouldn't have any complaints with this electrifying oddity.
- The result, an eye-popping strobe of flesh and blood, is as visually stunning as it is absurdly offensive, sure to thrill some while leaving others in a state of outrage-induced catatonia.
- Crank: High Voltage is an action-thriller written by film-makers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who also co-directed the film. It is a sequel to <a href="/title/tt0479884/">Crank (2006)</a> (2006). Crank: High Voltage picks up immediately where the first one finishes, there is a three month gap, and then the film continues, Chev (<a href="/name/nm0005458/">Jason Statham</a>) falls out of a helicopter. At the beginning of Crank: High Voltage, it shows Chev being removed from the scene by a snow shovel. He then wakes up in the hospital, after having his heart transplanted. Whatever it be, it's a MacGuffin, an object used to thrust forward a story but often never identified. The leaves the actual interpretation of the item in the film to the viewer. The way Chev Chelios describes the unknown object that's inside the box after he opens it suggests that it's something very disgusting, e.g., an illegal drug, somebody's body part or possibly something pornographic. During the first part of the credits, Doc Miles places Chev's heart back in (although we don't see what he does with Poon Dong) while Eve watches (due to the fire, Chev is covered in full-body bandages). At first, it looks like a failure, but after everyone leaves, Chev's eyes open, and his heart is heard beating. In addition, there are several bloopers shown after the credits begin. a5c7b9f00b
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