Crank: High Voltage

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Apr 172009
 

Crank2Racist. Sexist. ¬†Homophobic. ¬†Xenophobic. I could google any number of other ‘ists and phobics and throw them in here. ¬†It’s extremely violent, covered in a thick sludge of filth and profanity and is downright disgusting. ¬†Those of you that are not familiar with Crank may have just crossed this off your list of ‘must see’ at this point. ¬†For the rest of you that know and love Crank, now you know that it’s everything you could’ve hoped for and then some.

How do you top one of the most over-the-top movies ever? ¬†You take a shotgun, insert it forcefully into Crank’s ass and threaten to pull the trigger. ¬†That will make a whole lot more sense once you step away from your computer and head out to see the dense chunk of brilliance that is Crank: High Voltage. ¬†Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have delivered on the promise of that red band trailer I saw a few months ago and given us something truly great.

So here’s the rundown, which I suppose could contain a minor spoiler or two if you haven’t seen the original. ¬†But come on, it came out in ’06, the statute of limitations has run out people! ¬†We pick up right where the first film left off. ¬†Chev Chelios has just seemingly plunged to his death from a helicopter. ¬†Of course, he’s not dead at all, and is literally scooped up by some chinese mob goons and taken away. ¬†He becomes conscious only to find that his heart is being removed and replaced with an artificial battery powered heart that requires jolts of electricity to keep going. ¬†Naturally, Chelios is not happy about any of this and aims to find the motherfucker who stole his heart, get it back, and kill the bastard.

The real spoilers are not about the story itself, but rather the visuals strung along throughout the film of Chev Chelios finding different ways to keep his heart firing on all cylinders and lie within just how crazy the fucking movie is. ¬†Many people are going to love this movie and twice as many will hate it. ¬†The haters are only going to see the hideous amounts of sex and violence and completely dismiss the inventive and beautifully ridiculous way in which it’s shot. Fuck those people. ¬†This is an all-out attack on the senses. ¬†This is poetic pornography. ¬†MTV era cinema now has it’s Citizen Kane.

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