  
Crank: High Voltagea.k.a. “Crank 2,” “Crank - High Voltage,” “Adrenalina 2,” “Ektos orion 2,” “Tetikçi 2 - Yüksek gerilim,” “Адреналин 2: Высокое напряжение,” “Адреналiн 2: Висока напруга,” “Adrenaliin 2: Kõrgepinge”MPAA Rating:
 for frenetic strong bloody violence throughout, crude and graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language.Reviewed by: Eric Hernandez Extremely Offensive
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience:
Adults
Genre:
Crime, Action, Sequel
Length:
1 hr. 25 min.
Year of Release:
2009
USA Release:
April 17, 2009 (wide—2,200 theaters)
DVD: September 8, 2009 
“He was dead… but he got better.” Editor’s Note: This film is not recommended due to its bloody violence, extreme vulgarity and graphic sexual content. The prequel to this film was rated “Extremely Offensive.”
Let it be said that this is not a typical review. I did not willingly volunteer to watch this movie. Not having ever seen the original “Crank” and knowing nothing about this, its sequel, I was convinced by some friends with very poor judgment to plop down five dollars and subject myself to this movie. What a mistake. “Crank: High Voltage” is a film so vile, so repugnant and evil that, by the time I left the theater, I felt like crying. I was filled with both anger and deep sadness after viewing it. The plot of a film like this is really not worth discussing; the content completely overshadows any merit it may have as a movie. However, because I am obligated to cover it: Jason Statham stars as Chev Chelios, an assassin who was apparently dropped out of a helicopter at the end of the first film. He survived the fall and is scooped off the street by Chinese gangsters, who want to harvest his organs for sale on the black market. His heart is removed and for some reason replaced with a battery-powered artificial one. Chelios manages to escape the gang’s clutch and must spend the rest of the movie both running from the gang and electrically shocking himself in various ways in order to keep his heart running. This paper-thin plot serves to harbor a mind-numbing amount of morally corrupt content; certainly the most I have ever witnessed in a movie. To try and list everything offensive in the movie would be a futile task. I suggest that if you do not plan on seeing this movie that you skip ahead to the last paragraph. Bad language is pervasive, with every curse word imaginable spoken dozens of times. The F-word is said hundreds of times. The sexual content is overwhelming. Explicit nudity of every kind is on display; with multiple scenes set in a strip club, there are many, many scenes with topless and fully nude women present. There are close-ups of breasts, buttocks, and genitals. The inside of a gay S&M club is glimpsed, where a man on a leash is seen being whipped. The film reaches its height of sexual perversity in an extraordinarily graphic sex scene on a public horse racetrack, with hundreds of onlookers, including children, watching. As if that wasn’t enough, the violence in “Crank: High Voltage” seems determined to outweigh the sexual content. People are gunned down in virtually every scene, with blood and matter spraying from their wounds. A woman is shot in the breasts, and her silicone implants are seen oozing out along with blood. One man is tortured by having his nipples cut off, another by being shocked in the crotch with an electric cattle prod, and yet another by having the barrel of a shotgun stuck up his rectum. Chelios violently electrocutes himself multiple times in order to keep his heart running. The list goes on and on, but I don’t think I need to say any more. This is sick, disturbing stuff. What left me truly rattled and shaken, though, were my fellow theatergoers’ reactions to what was happening on the screen. They were laughing. This wasn’t uncomfortable, nervous laughter either; indeed, they seemed to think the happenings on the screen was truly hilarious. There were young teenagers in the crowd, laughing along with everyone else. I’m not sure what to say about this, except I urge you to pray fervently that we as a culture do not become completely desensitized to sin. I went home feeling violated and defiled by this movie, wishing I could shower off the filth I felt it left on me. Psalm 101:3 says, “I will set no wicked thing before my eyes…” Take that advice. Don’t watch “Crank: High Voltage”. Violence: Extreme / Profanity: Extreme / Sex/Nudity: Extreme See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers.   Comments below:
Positive
Positive - It was EPIC!!!… I am a huge fan of the first and was so excited to see this I took 2 friends and my dad. We were all laughing our butt off the whole movie. The horse track, the power plant, it was all awesome. The first was crazy; this was clinically insane and genius at the same time. You have to be a certain type of person to enjoy this movie; the movie threw every bit of plausibility out the window right after the opening credits and did not let up till the closing credits were done. All I can say is bring on “Crank 3,” wahoooooo. Neutral
Neutral - Well, I am not actually sure what to think about this movie. I am a huge fan of Jason (the main actor) and I loved the first movie despite the weird sex scene. Admittedly this series is over the top and crazy and not really meant for Christians. I am pretty open minded and handle anything really. But this film really seemed… out there this time. When I see something I usually expect it to have a point. Negative
Negative - I had to review this movie for a group of young people. This movie is making nonsense compare to the first one. It’s very hard to watch at times, the language is really bad, very vulgar all the way, and I can’t count the times the F**** word was said. The content is EXTREMELLY OFFENSIVE; there are few sexual scenes worst than the first movie. It was hard at times to figure out where the movie was going. The story was all over the place and not making too much sense. There was lots of action, but the format is not proper and the content disgusting. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE TO ANYONE. Negative - Sick is a word that describes someone not feeling well…this movie leaves you feeling sick! Perverted, sick minds in hollywood today… This movie is the worst I have ever watched in my entire life and people who enjoy it… got something wrong with them… the sex, gore, the language… the overall feel of the movie makes your skin crawl. I have watched horror movies that have had less of a sickening aspect then this movie… It was beyond filth. Hollywood should be ashamed for wasting such money on filming such garbage… and the lead actor Jason… well for him to star in something so idiotic and disgusting really changed my opinion of him… Too Bad…! Wouldn't recommend this movie to a soul, at least a soul that wants to be saved…! Negative - This is the first time I've ever commented on a movie on this site. Now, I'm not a squeamish person and I'm not easily offended at all when it comes to movies. Sometimes I watch movies that many other Christians would not watch (Tarantino movies for example), including movies that are condemned by this site's reviewers. But this was just too much even for me. Movie Critics
…Like its predecessor, “Crank: High Voltage,” the latest abomination from Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, is boorish, bigoted and borderline pornographic.… …Repulsive, poorly made garbage… With constant, graphic foul language, extreme violence, very explicit sexual content and nudity, and terrible filmmaking, this may be the worst, most abhorrent and evil action movie ever made.… …The entire film is really just a series of gags strung together with a mere shadow of a storyline behind them. …the film suddenly, ridiculously, charmingly morphed into an oversized parody of Ishiro Honda's classics “King Kong vs. Godzilla” and “War of the Gargantuas,” complete with the slow-motion destruction of a miniature power-station set and – I'm not making this up – little plastic people pointing and screaming… “Crank: High Voltage” is not nearly as much fun (or as coherent) as its culty predecessor… …the climactic shot of Statham flipping the audience the bird pretty much sums up High Voltage’s juvenile, semitransgressive intentions.… Comments from non-viewers
Negative - One of the worst movies ever!!! I watched 10 minutes maybe a little more with my husband who literally had his eyes closed with all the nudity, YUCK Disturbing movie, completely foul, my heart hurt just watching what we did watch. These actors have made other great films, just pray that they will be lead to the truth. |
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