Crank: High Voltage (2009)

Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker which requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

Directors:

Mark Neveldine (as Neveldine), Brian Taylor (as Taylor)

Writers:

Mark Neveldine (as Neveldine), Brian Taylor (as Taylor)

Stars:

Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Clifton Collins Jr.

1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jason Statham	...	Chev Chelios
Amy Smart	...	Eve
Dwight Yoakam	...	Doc Miles
Efren Ramirez	...	Venus
Julanne Chidi Hill	...	Dark Chocolate
Jose Pablo Cantillo	...	Ricky Verona
Reno Wilson	...	Orlando
Keone Young	...	Don Kim
Art Hsu	...	Johnny Vang
Joseph Julian Soria	...	Chico
Bai Ling	...	Ria
Clifton Collins Jr.	...	El Huron
David Carradine	...	Poon Dong
Corey Haim	...	Randy
Geri Horner	...	Karen Chelios (as Geri Halliwell)

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

pixelated nudity | voyeur | voyeurism | stripper | prostitute | 

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Taglines:

He was dead... but he got better.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for frenetic strong bloody violence throughout, crude and graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language

Did You Know?

Trivia

Cameo: Stephen Graham, Jason Statham buddy in "Snatch" can be seen as a customer in the striptease bar where Chev finds Eve dancing. He seems to be wearing the same characteristic coat as in "Snatch".

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Goofs

At the Strip Please club: The girl bartender is killed by a head-shot but a few seconds later, the same girl can be seen standing at the bar in the background with the forehead wound already in place.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Fish Halman: In a story so bizarre I can scarcely believe the event I'm reporting, and yet corroborated by at least a dozen eye witnesses. A white male apparently fell from the sky above downtown Los Angeles today, landed in the middle of a busy intersection, destroying one vehicle and hospitalising its elderly driver,and then was removed from the scene even before emergency personnel could respond. Without a body the police have yet to piece together the events of the day.It can only be ...

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Crazy Credits

During the credits there is a sequence with Doc Miles giving Chev his heart operation with Dark Chocolate assisting him and Eve looking on. When the heart was put in, Doc Miles tried to revive Chev with a defibrillator only for him to flat-line. Doc Miles takes Eve away and right when the production credits end, the camera closes in on Chev's burned and bandaged body and his eyes pop open, showing that he is still alive.

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Alternate Versions

German DVD release was cut by approx. 2,5 minutes to secure a "Not under 18" rating. For the "Not under 16" version more than eight minutes were removed.

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Connections

Follows Crank (2006)

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Soundtracks

Heard It in a Love Song
Written by Toy Caldwell Jr. (as Toy Caldwell)
Performed by The Marshall Tucker Band
Courtesy of Marshall Tucker Entertainment d/b/a Ramblin' Records by exclusive license to Shout! Factory, by arrangement with Natural Energy Lab

User Reviews

In short, I liked it.

Let me start off by defending my rating of this title. Really it's hard for me to rate a movie like this, it is directed right at me and my type of people. I can't help it that I like a movie like this, it's just the way it is.

Really this movie is a grind house movie in an era where grind house movies don't exist. It has everything that is unacceptable as entertainment in other movies...and yet you can't stop watching. It's for the most part, balls to the walls, insanity. It doesn't make sense. The reason I don't' mind...is that it's not trying to. It knows it's stupid and crazy. And it loves it. It's not trying to impress you. This is a movie that really took control of itself. Typically you'll have a movie with an a-b formula...this is a a-z formula with complete insanity and randomness filling in the interval. You know where the movie is going as soon as you start watching it, it's the ride that excites and keeps you watching.

In short, this movie has violence, action, nudity, homosexuality, disabilities, public indecency and racism. And I have to admit, I liked it.

The one problem I had with this movie is it started so crazy and hilarious that it kind of peaked in the middle. It was just so much that the rest didn't surprise you anymore. I still found it very enjoyable though, and would definitely add it to my collection.

Also I know this review sucks, but this movie is hard to give a serious review to. If you like movies that play out like a GTA video game mixed with a violent Japanese film...then watch it. Just have fun with it.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Germany]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 April 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Crank 2

Filming Locations:

Hollywood Park Racetrack - 1050 S. Prairie Avenue, Inglewood, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$6,963,565, 19 April 2009

Gross USA:

$13,684,249

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$34,572,541

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lionsgate, Lakeshore Entertainment, RadicalMedia

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

DTS SDDS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1