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  • 2009
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary Picking up immediately where the first movie left off, Crank: High Voltage finds Chev surviving the climactic plunge to his most certain death on the streets of Los Angeles, only to be kidnapped by a mysterious Chinese mobster. Three months later, Chev wakes up to discover his nearly indestructible heart has been surgically removed and r...

Directed By: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

Written By: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

  • 2009
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 36 m

Crank: High Voltage

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
41
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 150 User Ratings
6.6
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Summary Picking up immediately where the first movie left off, Crank: High Voltage finds Chev surviving the climactic plunge to his most certain death on the streets of Los Angeles, only to be kidnapped by a mysterious Chinese mobster. Three months later, Chev wakes up to discover his nearly indestructible heart has been surgically removed and r...

Directed By: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

Written By: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
41
27% Positive
4 Reviews
33% Mixed
5 Reviews
40% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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27% Positive
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33% Mixed
5 Reviews
40% Negative
6 Reviews

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91
It'd be silly to call Crank: High Voltage over the top: The top is so far below that it isn't even visible. But at this mostly unexplored altitude--only 2007's inferior "Shoot 'Em Up" comes close.
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75
The result, an eye-popping strobe of flesh and blood, is as visually stunning as it is absurdly offensive, sure to thrill some while leaving others in a state of outrage-induced catatonia.
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Generally Favorable Based on 150 User Ratings
6.6
53% Positive
79 Ratings
36% Mixed
54 Ratings
11% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 150 User Ratings
6.6
53% Positive
79 Ratings
36% Mixed
54 Ratings
11% Negative
17 Ratings

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C3realkillah
Jun 20, 2013
This movie is hilarious and awesome. Over the top and unlike any other film. Needs to be seen if you got a twisted dark sense of humor. Hope there is a sequel!
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10
176-761
Jan 31, 2013
Crank High Voltage continues the crazy action blazing. Viewer can feel the adrenaline. Again, there are some dirty jokes embedded into movie, which works great. Just go, and fast!
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60
Proof that you can make good movies based on video games, as long as you don't bother making a video game first. Juice us up for Crank 3D.
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50
Follows the same formula as the first, with one difference: They've managed to ramp up the action and vulgarity beyond the insane heights of the original.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
38
Imagine some very smart people setting out to make a very naughty action film and shooting themselves in the foot. Voila: Crank: High Voltage.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
20
Boorish, bigoted and borderline pornographic.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
10
Benefits of the first film's ancillary gross-out will jolt "Voltage" like a speedball shot to the groin, until word of mouth spreads like an STD.
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10
JWAS
Oct 6, 2012
Funny. Outside the box. Definitely, a cult classic. Unlike other movies, this sequel was better than the first Crank (which I had enjoyed as well). This is one movie, along with the original, that I will keep in my DVD collection.
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aemfariz
Nov 12, 2023
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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CineAutoctono
Dec 22, 2015
Crank sack the sequel, but I have not seen the first , but what is that in the sequel , it was interesting , but very immature with some naked women , whom I so he had put that s**t in an action movie showed , but at other times it was very funny , it almost served to porn movie , which turned sad epileptic gallant Jason Statham.
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asylumspadez
Nov 26, 2011
It was a rather basic sequel that does nothing to establish itself from the previous film and it was actually pretty disapointing. I expected far better.
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FeatherBlade
Oct 14, 2012
The worst movie I've ever seen in my whole life. There's no script, story or real action and the attempt to embed a false comedy makes this movie a shoddy work. Awful, disappointing, baffling, uneven. 0.
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Production Company Lionsgate Films, Lakeshore Entertainment, RadicalMedia
Release Date Apr 17, 2009
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline He was dead... but he got better.
Website https://www.facebook.com/crankhighvoltage
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Awards

ALMA Awards
• 2 Nominations
Internet Film Critic Society
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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