Crank: High Voltage (2009)
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A man with an artificial heart must keep himself electrically charged to stay alive while hunting down those who stole his original organ.
The story
After surviving a deadly fall from a helicopter, Chev Chelios is kidnapped by Chinese doctors who harvest his heart and replace it with an artificial one designed to last only one hour. Chev escapes but discovers he must remain electrically charged to keep the new heart functioning. He embarks on a frantic quest to find his original heart, navigating a dangerous underworld of gangsters and mobsters. Along the way, he must constantly seek out sources of electricity to prevent his internal battery from running out as he tracks down the people responsible for his condition.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Chev Chelios survives a fall from a helicopter but is kidnapped by Chinese doctors who replace his heart with an artificial one that only lasts 60 minutes. He escapes with an external battery pack and seeks out Doc Miles, a mafia surgeon, who explains the situation. After destroying his external battery, Chev must find ways to charge his internal battery using friction and electricity. He tracks a man named Vang to a strip club, where he finds his girlfriend Eve working as a stripper. He learns that a mobster named El Hurón wants to kill him. Chev eventually learns that a Triad leader, Poon Dong, wanted Chev's heart and it has already been transplanted into him. Chev travels to Catalina Island, where El Hurón reveals he is the brother of two men Chev killed. El Hurón keeps Ricky Verona's head in a glass tank, kept alive to watch Chev be tortured. After a shootout, Chev grabs a high-voltage transformer to recharge, becoming set ablaze but gaining enough power to beat El Hurón to death. He then inadvertently sets Ria on fire while hallucinating she is Eve. In the end, Doc Miles replaces Chev's heart, and though it appears he died, Chev's eyes open in the credits.
- Original title
- Crank 2: High Voltage
- First release year
- 2009
- Runtime (minutes)
- 96
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Neveldine/Taylor
- Writers
- Neveldine · writer; Taylor · writer
- Cast and characters
- Jason Statham · Chev Chelios; Amy Smart · Eve Lydon; Clifton Collins Jr. · Jesus "El Hurón" Verona; Efren Ramirez · Venus; Bai Ling · Ria; David Carradine · Poon Dong; Dwight Yoakam · "Doc" Miles; Billy Unger · young Chev
- Genres
- action; thriller; black comedy
- Themes
- survival; body modification; violence
- Tone and mood
- hyper-kinetic; violent; surreal
- Premise and plot tags
- sequel; organ transplantation; triad
- Franchise connections
- Crank
- Reception
- The film received mixed reviews, praised for Statham's performance but criticized for its extreme violence, offensive content, and visual style.
- Reported review scores
- Rotten Tomatoes · score: 64% · review count: 72; Rotten Tomatoes · score: 6.00/10 · scale: 10 · review count: 72; Metacritic · score: 41 · scale: 100 · review count: 15
- Production trivia
- The directors used prosumer high-definition camcorders to achieve a hyper-kinetic look.; The film features several cameo appearances of celebrities from various fields of entertainment.
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