| | | "Stay Charged, Stay Alive."
Features: Widescreen, English, Subtitled, French, Spanish, Dolby Digital (5.1)
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!
"...a real celebration of the phrase "Why not?". It's big, loud and brainless - and it's all the more glorious for it." Leah Holmes, SFX Magazine
Editor's Note
Committed to delivering A.D.D. movies for the music-video and video-gaming generation, directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor turn the action and antics levels up to "11" in CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE. The film picks up where its cult-hit predecessor left off, with hunky hit man Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) falling to his death on the streets of L.A. But fate and Chelios?s vengeful enemies have other plans, implanting him with an artificial heart while preparing him for more extensive organ harvesting. When Chelios?s escape reduces this temporary ticker to internal battery power, the quest for his own heart must be sustained by any electrical charge available. This includes everything from dog shock-collars to high-voltage transformers to a very public display of electron transferral with ex-girlfriend Eve (Amy Smart). Aided by good friend Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam) and the Tourette's-suffering Venus (Efren Ramirez), Chelios cuts a frenzied path of destruction on his way to a final shoot-'em-up showdown with the Ferret (Clifton Collins Jr.). Will it be in time to restore the aggrieved assassin?s heart, or will Chev Chelios find that his tankful of tenacity is finally on empty? An adrenaline-fueled rush from start to finish, the film revels in its whiplash violence and vulgarity without ever taking itself too seriously. And with Statham further bolstering his dashing-while-deadly bona fides, CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE is action-packed, Colisseum-pleasing entertainment in its purest form.
| Features | Audio Commentary: Writers/Directors Neveldine/Taylor | | Audio: Dubbed French 5.1 Dolby Digital | | Audio: English 7.1 DTS-HD | | Bookmarks and Blu- line Time Slider | | Crank'd Out BonusView? Mode with Cast and Crew | | Featurette: CRANK 2: Take 2 | | Gag reel | | Includes A Digital Copy Of The Film For Portable Media Players! | | Lionsgate Live - Introducing A New BD-Live Menu System That Lets You Access Exclusive Content, Special Offers, Ringtones, & More! (Requires Profile 2.0 Player) | | Making-of Documentary | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Theatrical Trailer | | Wrap Party |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 9/8/2009 |
| Running Time: 95 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2009 | | Catalog ID: 25994 | | UPC: 00031398112693 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"The movie thrives on absurdity and outrage....The frenzied camera work and stuttering editing are matched with a spasmodic score by former Faith No More frontman Mike Patton..." 04/18/2009A.V. Club
"[W]riter-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have written their own set of action-comedy challenges, and they slam-dunk pretty much every one." -- Grade: A- 04/17/2009 Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] burgeoning action franchise that operates on its own gonzo, wonderful logic. CRANK HIGH VOLTAGE sizzles with comic brutality and audiences will eagerly tap into its energy..." 04/17/2009 Salon.com 5 of 10
I saw Crank: High Voltage in the theater on a Friday afternoon (it wasn't screened for critics), and the guy in front of me would occasionally shift in his seat and say in a monotone, "Man, that's crazy" --- not as if he really believed any of it was crazy, but as if he felt that, in order to feel he was getting his money's worth, he had to pretend to buy into whatever Crank: High Voltage was selling. The first time around, Neveldine and Taylor treated the movie's cartoony violence as a sick joke; this time around, it's an applied science, and the strain of their efforts shows...This is also the first time I can remember actively disliking Jason Statham, who's been terrifically appealing in action movies (like the Transporter series) but who has also shown he can pull off more serious dramatic roles (in pictures like Roger Donaldson's Bank Job). I don't think it's Statham's fault he's so bad: The movie's camerawork is so choppy you can barely get a look at him, and he doesn't have any lines, only catchphrases. (Lame ones at that: After doing away with a bunch of Chinatown baddies, he snarls "Chicken -- and -- broccoli." Come again?) What made Statham so cool in Crank was that even as he was downing power drinks and stabbing himself with epinephrine syringes, he rarely broke a sweat: It was everyone else around him who was trying too hard. In Crank: High Voltage, Statham just looks miserable, as if appearing in this lousy picture just sucked all the heart right out of him. Neveldine and Taylor may not be evil Chinese doctors, but they're practicing the same kind of hackwork. - Stephanie Zacharek
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