Crank - What does one make of this crazy mess of a film Directed like they gave some ADD kid a video camera, the film's spastic action scenes and camera work made me nauseous with all the bobbing and running around. Clearly this film was not meant to be taken remotely seriously. The humor is low brow Three Stooges style with a lot of gun play and blood thrown in.
Crank is also an extremely racist and misogynistic film with something to offend everyone. Particularly hard to watch is the treatment of the female lead Amy Smart. The directors Neveldine and Taylor seem to get off on humiliating her especially in a public sex scene.
Bottom line, didn't care for the over the top Crank.
Crank: High Voltage - Since Crank made money a sequel was required and this film is really something to see. Take Crank and exaggerate it exponentially if that is even possible and you have Crank: High Voltage.
Everything is now completely played as a huge joke. This time out, Jason Statham does an imitation of Godzilla, Amy Smart manages to humiliate herself even more than was possible with a sex scene during a horse race. The actor Bai Lng plays some kind of bizarre crack whore, who is subtitled throughout the film even though she speaks English and on and on it goes with cinematic quotes from They Saved Hitler's Brain of all things.
Unfortunately you have to sit through Crank to enjoy the dementia of Crank: High Voltage but it's well worth the trouble to see something as insane as this film. Crank: High Voltage is an example of the old saying "nothing succeeds like excess," or something like that.
This film is totally crazied.
Crank, 93 minutes
Crank: High Voltage, 96 minutes
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