Crank: High Voltage/Crank 2 is a Jason Statham action-packed starrer. The film opens with a sequence where Chev Chelios falls from a helicopter during the final moments of the original film. Immediately, he is scooped off the street via a snow shovel by a group of Chinese men. He wakes up in a makeshift hospital and sees doctors removing his heart, placing it in a white cooler with a padlock and placing a clear plastic artificial heart in his chest!
Chelios wakes up three months later and escapes. He notices a yellow battery-pack attached to him, which keeps his new heart pumping. He now goes about tracking his own heart, which has been harvested for Poon Dong, the head honcho of the Chinese triad. On his way, Chelios has to leave behind a trail of blood, gore and violence.
Written and directed by Neveldine Taylor it takes organ harvesting to the level of robbery. But how Taylor goes about showing it is one of the most dysfunctional bits of narration. The film is riddled with ultra-violence in every other frame like bodies flying through the air, reviving the heart with an electric shock even if it means hugging a power-pole and preserving someone?s head in a solution because his brain is valuable, for what we do not know.
At no point does the film become watchable. Not that Jason Statham is an actor of any calibre, but we can?t stop wondering why did he do this film.
Crank 2 is a sequel and the way it ends we can well expect Crank 3.
Rating: One star for the effort of making this film.