CRANK
II
-
High
Voltage
With
Jason
Statham,
Amy
Smart,
Dwight
Yoakam,
Efren
Ramirez,
Art
Hsu,
Ling
Bai,
Clifton
Collins
Jr.,
David
Carradine,
Corey
Haim,
Geri
Halliwell
Written
&
Directed
by
Mark
Neveldine
and
Brian
Taylor
The
original
high-octane
Crank
had
Chev
Chelios
poisoned,
having
to
keep
his
heart
rate
blasting
in
order
to
avoid
the
toxin
killing
him.
It
ended
with
him
splatting
into
the
tarmac
from
a
helicopter.
And
as
the
tag
line
says:
“He
died...
but
he
got
better”.
Better
indeed!
From
here
the
second
installment
has
Chev's
body
scraped
from
the
road
and
rushed
into
a
back
room
surgery
where
they
remove
his
heart
(for
their
aging
Chinese
crime
boss),
replacing
it
with
a
mechanical
one.
He
busts
out
(with
the
heart's
battery
running
low),
on
a
rampage
through
the
city
to
find
his
ticker
and
sort
out
the
bastards
behind
its
theft,
constantly
needing
to
get
juiced
with
electricity.
Fast,
violent,
furious
and
hilarious,
the
movie
also
features
Corey
Haim
in
a
white
trash
supporting
role
(sadly
shortly
after
seeing
this,
news
came
through
of
his
untimely
death).
A
great
addition
to
this
is
the
crazy,
energetically
charged
soundtrack
by
the
audio
madman
Mike
Patton
(of
Faith
No
More,
Fantômas
and
Tomahawk
fame)
-
throughout
the
movie
I
noticed
something
about
the
manic
soundtrack
that
seems
awfully
familiar
-
in
the
credits
it
all
made
sense.
5
/
B
-
Paul
Blom
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C
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