Crank 2: High Voltage (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
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Actor: Bai Ling, Corey Haim, David Carradine, Dwight Yoakam, Reno WilsonDirector: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-09-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Crank 2: High Voltage (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: Manly Men Movie II - includes several MOVIE SPOILERS
Summary: 1 Stars
I decried the treatment and presentment of women in the original CRANK without seeming to notice there is no one in either movie, man OR woman, who is anything but trashy. I guess the women in glass bowls distracted me. Regardless, we have more of the same here, just no bowls this time. Mostly it's trying to figure out why suddenly there is no longer any poison in Chev's bloodstream slowing killing him after seeing him literally scrapped off the pavement with a shovel and dumped into the truck of a car. Then on an operating table with his various parts being cut out and sold. He seems to do well with having his heart removed but objects, as any manly man would, to having his "goodies" removed, leaps up, slams the doctors around and escapes. Most folks after heart surgery (much less having it completely removed) would have to have a lot of time to recover but not this guy. He's up and around like Superman. But wait, there's more! We go from amusing, to silly amusing, to silly, to (MOVIE SPOILER) two main characters turned into CG Godzillas battling it out in a miniturized power plant - I kid you not.
Appalled at the way Amy Smart was treated in the first I'd concluded there had been script changes because I couldn't understand why someone as talented as Smart would consent to the China Town public sex exhibition. Apparently, I was wrong again! We take public sex to a whole new level when Chev and Eve "do it" on a race track, complete with screaming crowds and at least one aroused horse bounding over them. (Oh good, we're back to YEECH!) Dwight Yoakam once again amazes with his performance as Chev's private physician.
There is amusing and there is completely idiotic. We being with one, and about 2/3's of the way through this thing pretending to be entertainment find ourselves deeply intrenched in the other. My advice is, if you must have Statham -- and I'm one of those -- stick with CRANK and tell yourself over and over, "There is no CRANK II. There is no CRANK II. It's an illusion...."
Description of Crank 2: High Voltage (Two-Disc Special Edition)
You can?t keep a good man down. Jason Statham is back as Chev Chelios ? this time to retrieve his stolen heart (that?s right, he?s running on battery power). High-octane and truly electrifying!
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The critics have not been very kind to Crank: High Voltage. But what do they know? Here?s what this movie has going for it: gratuitous nudity, mindless violence, constant profanity, and a ridiculous storyline. Add to that stereotypes galore (gay, Asian, Latino, the neuropsychiatrically disabled, you name it), strippers with guns, a strike by porn actors (with a cameo appearance by Ron Jeremy), and a guy who refers to his heart as a "strawberry tart," and one can only wonder what?s not to like. In fact, writer-director-producers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor?s sequel to 2006?s Crank is an absolute hoot, a non-stop assault of crazy sights and sounds that will leave you breathless and laughing. As the action starts, Jason Statham?s Chev Chelios has not only survived the fall from a helicopter that ended the earlier film, but is now on the operating table, awake and watching as some Chinese villains harvest his "tart" in order to implant it in their aging leader (a wacky turn by David Carradine). Chev quickly dispatches the bad guys, but the fun?s just starting; the mechanical ticker they?ve put inside him needs constant recharging, so as Chev pursues the real organ, he must use whatever?s available (jumper cables, a police taser, a car cigarette lighter, high voltage power lines) to keep the fake one going. Storywise, that?s about it. But it?s plenty, as the filmmakers? ultra-kinetic style--with its manic edits, cartoony subtitles, and other envelope-stretching effects--and amusing performances by Amy Smart (as Chev?s girlfriend), Dwight Yoakam (as a "doctor" who helps him figure out what?s happening), and others keep things going. No, Crank: High Voltage ain?t exactly Masterpiece Theater, but this is without a doubt one of 2009?s most entertaining films. --Sam Graham
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