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Actor: Amy Smart, Jason Statham
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-09-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lionsgate

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Movie Review: twisted, violent, and wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars

Crank 2 finds our heroes, writer/director duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, hot off their success with Crank and coming out with a more commercially viable Gamer, earning some breathing room, spreading their wings and pretty much just going balls out insane.

Crank itself was madness. A hitman, Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) is injected with a poison that leaves him no option but to keep his adrenaline pumping nonstop or die. Clearly, the makings of an intense action film, which is what we got. From start to finish it was violent fury, with much more than its fair share of macabre murder humor. The end finds him surviving against impossible odds, although how alive he is can't be told by the simple blink of his eye that we are given.

Crank 2 picks up from that moment. Chelios's body is hustled off by some sinister Chinese men and he is operated on and kept in a medical room for a couple months. By the time he regains awareness (just in time to save his privates from being donated to a mob boss) his heart is missing, replaced by an electronic pumper which he must keep electrically charged.

So we switch from Chelios doing every insane thing he can to keep his excitement up, to Chelios racing after a box with his heart in it, stopping every now and then to find some way to electrocute himself and (whoa! yeah!) kickstart his heart.

Okay, this is madness enough as it is. It's amplified by extra amounts of gore, more grotesque brutality, more perversion, porn star and metalhead cameos, irreverant sidetracking, and a few complete losses of all reality that are far and away the funniest parts of the film.

Oh, and they bought their cameras at Best Buy. It gave it a frantic, independent, in your face, bewildering feel. Between that and the brutal humor and carefree violence, I was surprised at the lack of a cameo from Troma's Lloyd Kaufman. The whole film's right up his alley (minus the $12.9 million price tag, I guess).

It doesn't end there though. This gleefully sadistic film, shot on cheap cameras, was perfectly scored by Mike Patton. The movie is blessed throughout with an eerie, playful, rock soundtrack that suits it perfectly.

Crank 2 is definitely not a movie suitable for a lot of people. Its unashamedly violent and crude to the point of absolutely sick pleasure. There is no redeeming moral code, no truly honorable character. They're all angry, dysfunctional and bent. But it is a masterpiece of divergence. There's really nothing like it. If the bloodier, the meaner, the more out of touch with believablity the film, the more you'll like it, this is for you. If you want a film that stays grounded, or at the very least doesn't fly off into hallucinogenic escapades, you need to skip Crank 2 until you're ready for it.

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Summary of Crank 2: High Voltage

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!

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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