The action film Crank 2: High Voltage is directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor and stars Jason Statham and Amy Smart. The film takes place three months after Crank in the same city which I don't believe is identified.
Chev Chelios (Statham) is alive! After falling from a helicopter and surviving a group of men picks up his body and takes his heart replacing it with an artificial one. Chelios then must find his heart by racing through the city and coming into a countless amount of naked women while shooting everything that moves. To stay alive Chelios must electrify himself to keep his artificial heart going after he loses his little heart belt. Yeah, that's basically the plot.
Neveldine and Taylor are at it again but this time much worse than the first one. Instead of having characterization they put in more violence and nudity. Instead of putting in a plot they put in more violence and nudity. Instead of putting in a meaning to their film they put in more violence in nudity. Chev Chelios is a superman hit man out for revenge and all he does is run around the city shooting at people and having sex in the middle of a race track. For all of you who say you're supposed to ignore logic and just enjoy the film I'm sorry but this film is terrible and far too illogical for an illogical film to be.
The direction by Neveldine and Taylor is just as crazy as it was in the first, but added nothing new. I imagine that the two are video game addicts and that can easily be seen from watching this film and before every shot they both do a line of cocaine to make sure that the film is as crazy and illogical as it could possibly be. I will admit for the first thirty minutes it is slightly entertaining because of how illogical it is but then it just goes too far over the edge. It's a good thing that they follow this film with a slightly better bad film.
Marc Jakubowicz and Fernando Villena edited this film and I'm sure they got in on that line of cocaine. I'm not saying that the editing is bad it just matches the craziness of the direction which is a good thing because if the editing and direction didn't match this would have to be a 2/10. There is equally as much style in the editing as the direction and the editing is one of the strongest parts of this terrible film.
Jason Statham played the lead of Chev Chelios and I complimented him on his performance in Crank but in this one there was just not as much of a character. It was basically be really sleepy, be shocked awake, shoot up everyone in the room, be really sleepy, etc. In no way did he do a bad job all the blame goes to the writing and direction none to him. I guess he can be blamed for agreeing to do the film but a check is a check. Amy Smart played Eve Lydon and her character had no character to her at all. It is basically help Chev when he needed help and have sex with him on a race track. Again I don't blame her, I blame Neveldine and Taylor. The supporting cast were all pretty bad but they could not have possibly been good so no blame on them either.
Overall I give this film a 3/10, because it was absolutely terrible. Talk about style over substance. Actually just talk about style because there was no substance to this film it was just a hyped up shoot 'em up, naked woman festival, and not in a good way. If anyone really loves watching mindless films I recommend this to you. Jason Statham is a solid performer and I hope he does better than this garbage in the future.
Chev Chelios (Statham) is alive! After falling from a helicopter and surviving a group of men picks up his body and takes his heart replacing it with an artificial one. Chelios then must find his heart by racing through the city and coming into a countless amount of naked women while shooting everything that moves. To stay alive Chelios must electrify himself to keep his artificial heart going after he loses his little heart belt. Yeah, that's basically the plot.
Neveldine and Taylor are at it again but this time much worse than the first one. Instead of having characterization they put in more violence and nudity. Instead of putting in a plot they put in more violence and nudity. Instead of putting in a meaning to their film they put in more violence in nudity. Chev Chelios is a superman hit man out for revenge and all he does is run around the city shooting at people and having sex in the middle of a race track. For all of you who say you're supposed to ignore logic and just enjoy the film I'm sorry but this film is terrible and far too illogical for an illogical film to be.
The direction by Neveldine and Taylor is just as crazy as it was in the first, but added nothing new. I imagine that the two are video game addicts and that can easily be seen from watching this film and before every shot they both do a line of cocaine to make sure that the film is as crazy and illogical as it could possibly be. I will admit for the first thirty minutes it is slightly entertaining because of how illogical it is but then it just goes too far over the edge. It's a good thing that they follow this film with a slightly better bad film.
Marc Jakubowicz and Fernando Villena edited this film and I'm sure they got in on that line of cocaine. I'm not saying that the editing is bad it just matches the craziness of the direction which is a good thing because if the editing and direction didn't match this would have to be a 2/10. There is equally as much style in the editing as the direction and the editing is one of the strongest parts of this terrible film.
Jason Statham played the lead of Chev Chelios and I complimented him on his performance in Crank but in this one there was just not as much of a character. It was basically be really sleepy, be shocked awake, shoot up everyone in the room, be really sleepy, etc. In no way did he do a bad job all the blame goes to the writing and direction none to him. I guess he can be blamed for agreeing to do the film but a check is a check. Amy Smart played Eve Lydon and her character had no character to her at all. It is basically help Chev when he needed help and have sex with him on a race track. Again I don't blame her, I blame Neveldine and Taylor. The supporting cast were all pretty bad but they could not have possibly been good so no blame on them either.
Overall I give this film a 3/10, because it was absolutely terrible. Talk about style over substance. Actually just talk about style because there was no substance to this film it was just a hyped up shoot 'em up, naked woman festival, and not in a good way. If anyone really loves watching mindless films I recommend this to you. Jason Statham is a solid performer and I hope he does better than this garbage in the future.