The content was so over-the-top vulgar and lascivious that if the story were actually interesting or believable, which it was not, then the way in which it was conveyed ruined it. Reviewed April 17, 2009 / Posted April 17, 2009 Chev punches and strikes various cops, who then get the upper-hand and club him. Chev hits a goon with a shotgun, lubes up the end of the barrel, and jams that up the man's rectum while he is on all fours with his pants down. Parents need to know that this gory, envelope-pushing sequel to Crank is packed with grotesque, bloody, how-do-we-top-this? A man shoots several men repeatedly (we see blood spurt and splatter and open holes). Read critic reviews. Regardless, it's still a somewhat-decent, junkie-filled action picture. Watch Crank: High Voltage videos, latest trailers, interviews, behind the scene clips and more at TV Guide He later pummels another person, bloodying his face. He then shoots and kills him or another man, with bloody results. A man holds a gun on another man who punches him in the throat and takes the gun away. The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth: Season 8, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 1, Link to Marvel Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, Link to The 5 Most Anticipated Movies of March 2023. We see various close-up views of various parts of women's bodies in small bikinis. We see a man's open, bloody chest cavity on an operating table as an organ transplant is underway and paddles are charged and used to start his heart (we see him flinch from the charge). Handguns/Shotguns/Machine guns/Nunchuckas/Flogging whip: Carried and/or used to threaten, wound or kill others and/or cause property damage. All of the villains obviously have bad attitudes. Chev ends up crashing his car and flies through the windshield out onto the street where he lands hard. Jason Statham also stars in the franchise Transporter, Transporter 2 and Transporter 3. Chev comes across a protest featuring pornography performers on strike who carry signs with sexual phrases on them (including the "f" word), while one chants, "No dough, no blow." A woman punches a man, kicks him in the crotch, and throws him onto the hood of a car and he breaks the windshield. A woman jumps on a man's back and kisses his neck, tries to kiss him on the mouth repeatedly and chases after him trying to convince him to have sex with her (he declines the invitation using a crude remark). A man punches Johnny (whose face is bloody), and whacks the chair he's in with a machete to intimidate him. He also beats up others in another flashback view. Much of that has very bloody and/or gory results (while scenes depicting open-heart surgery are extremely graphic in nature), and those scenes and moments of potential peril might be suspenseful and/or unsettling for some viewers (but all of it's played so over-the-top that it comes off as somewhat cartoonish in tone). age 14+ The goal of /r/Movies is to provide an inclusive place for discussions and news about films with major Press J to jump to the feed. And that's why I love it, crank 2 is better than the first one, it's got more crazy action and it's much more ridiculous, and there's also some funny moments in it too, mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are such awesome directors lol. Bring on Crank 3. But familiarity breeds content -- or, in this case, shows contempt; the first Crank may have been shocking, but the only thing shocking about Crank: High Voltage is how far it's willing to go in the name of jolting the audience in pursuit of a quick buck. Poon Dong (an old man) comes on to various hookers on the street, betting one $5 that she will "blow" him for 20 bucks. Venus is thrown out of a moving limo, followed moments later by Chev hitting one of the men inside there, and then grabbing one or more guns and shooting everyone inside dead, although some tried to shoot back but were unsuccessful. Chev, the protagonist, has just fallen from a helicopter and landed hard on the Los Angeles pavement but is still alive. *Moderate We won't share this comment without your permission. We see a severed but still alive human head floating in a tank with all sorts of tubes and such attached to it. All of the action, fighting, and other stunts might be enticing for some kids to try to imitate. In the closing credits, Chev and Eve make out at the strip club where a bare-breasted stripper is in the background of the shot. are present. Needing a heart charge, Chev climbs up an electric pole and shocks himself. He later pummels another person, bloodying his face. Smoking Extreme And that's why I love it, crank 2 is better than the first one, it's got more crazy action and it's much more ridiculous, and there's also some funny moments in it too, mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are such awesome directors lol. Johnny hits Chev with the case he is carrying, and knocks him back into an electrical substation where Chev is shocked. A man beats another man using straps with hooks on the ends and we see bloody cuts open on his back. See production, box office & company info, The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Observe & Report/Gigantic/Hannah Montana: The Movie. might be enticing for kids to try to imitate (some of which - especially concerning a character repeatedly shocking himself -- could be very dangerous or even lethal), while all sorts of bad attitudes (regular villain stuff, as well as racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc.) Chico then reluctantly does this, seen in close up, with very bloody results. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. Now, in the high-octane sequel CRANK HIGH VOLTAGE, Chev has managed to survive--and is about to face a brand new day. Writer/director team Neveldine & Taylor take everything to an extreme, and it doesn't work. Considering the speed at which the following occurs and often simultaneously overlaps with other categories, the following should be considered a bare minimum: HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE - Two scenes depicting surgery and medical procedures (some blood and detail shown). Crank: High Voltage 2009 Directed by Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine Synopsis Stay Charged, Stay Alive! Sexual Content: Sex/Nudity Escaping from there but then realizing his power source is running out of juice, he uses a car's electrical system to jolt his mechanical heart back into proper order. They're going to be exposed to these things even before they are 16 so in reality, we might as well get used to it. Blood/Gore Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. This then turns into actual sex, with Chev removing her panties and throwing them up into the crowd with one man catching them, and then rolling her over and thrusting between her legs (we see his bare butt). So Much Gore And Sex I Closed My Eyes. He's . We see various bare-breasted women and shirtless men at El Huron's estate. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Bringing Chev Chelios back may make sense financially, but it somewhat dilutes the hell-bent-for-madness lunacy of the original film. Having had enough of him, Eve hits Randy in the crotch, and then strikes him several more times before throwing him onto the windshield of a parked car. We see an unconscious man in an ambulance with his intestines out of his body (we see a pile of slimy, blood covered intestines) and EMTs try to put them back in and revive him. Many men and women who are apparently prostitutes protest over wages and make sexual threats to people trying to cross their picket lines. At the same time, Ria attacks the man who threw her outside by repeatedly smashing something into his closed crotch until his pants are bloody. A man is shown weakened when his artificial heart's battery gets low, and he uses many types of electrical charge to power himself up: He climbs a power pole and grips the high voltage equipment (he is thrown back and onto the ground in flames and we see blistered, burning flesh), he attaches auto jump cables to his nipple and his tongue (he moans), he sticks his finger in a car cigarette lighter, he puts a dog training collar around his neck and punches the zap button, he tasers himself repeatedly, and he grabs two pieces of a high voltage device and is jolted. The two then accidentally fall over a short wall and down onto a horse race track where they passionately kiss, and she continues the thrusting while on top of him. Later, when Randy is thrown into the bathroom, we see blood on the floor from that. A person hits Chev with a rod, knocking him out. Ria then tells a man, "No f*cking sucky for you" and states that Chev is going to "tap your ass," not realizing she is using that term incorrectly. Violence consists of people being killed by various means (the majority of which is from gunfire), while others are wounded and lots of hard-hitting fighting is present. Johnny's face is very bloody after Chev pummels him. 3.5/5, Movies like these exist in another realm. As a result, all of his dialogue was improvised. That includes licking her shoulder, caressing her leg, and then caressing her clothed crotch and bare breast, while saying she can bet something on her own momma's "cootchie." Chev breaks a car window to get inside and hotwire the car. That includes licking her shoulder, caressing her leg, and then caressing her clothed crotch and bare breast, while saying she can bet something on her own momma's "cootchie." In the closing credits, we see outtakes from the above porn performer strike, with related sexual talk (sexual use of "bang" and a repeat of "no dough, no blow"). Crank: High Voltage (alternately titled Crank 2: High Voltage) is a 2009 American action film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. He then shoots a second man (also with bloody results), while machine guns and handguns are fired back at him, but he shoots two more people dead with a shotgun that he has grabbed from one. He then fights with them but ultimately falls off. Sexually related dialogue and song lyrics (much of it explicit) are present, as is a public sexual encounter (played for comedy, but with graphic movement and nudity and featuring many positions, with crotch views pixelated out). Later, when that tank breaks, Chev picks up the head, spits into the face, and then punts the head into a pool. See ratings & reviews at Critics.com. Several men hold another man by the arms and another man jams a cattle prod to his testicles (we see him yelling). Needing a jolt for his artificial heart, Chev takes Doc Miles' advice and tries to create static electricity by rubbing up against other people. He also beats up others in another flashback view. There is also a 7 to 10 minute long sex scene that was done for laughs, but it still is sex. Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century. When Eve realizes that woman is no longer cuffed, and the woman shows that she has keys to unlock those handcuffs, Eve tells her "do me," and the woman suggestively replies, "I'll do you," but Eve then knocks her out. Johnny hits Chev with the case he is carrying, and knocks him back into an electrical substation where Chev is shocked. Johnny is suddenly shot in the head, with very bloody results. from the first film. The action and other behavior/material (lots of tattoos, piercings, etc.) About her patient discussing his fear of guns after Chev held his on that man, the therapist states, "I would have sh*t myself." 'Crank: High Voltage' hits a lot of the same notes as its predecessor, but cranks the ludicrousness to 11. A nurse uses a rectal thermometer on Chev (we don't see the actual insertion). Seeing two men trying to train their dog with a shock collar, Chev then has that collar and use it to shock himself. He then hits and shocks many cops before driving off in one of their police cars. If you can get past the unrealistic aspects of it, you'll really have fun with it like I did. After being on fire, Chev's face becomes progressively burned and gross-looking, with missing and/or burned skin, etc. A therapist is advising and inviting her patient to have sex in increasingly crude terms. As Chev exits a brothel where surgery was performed on him, he sees a bare-breasted young woman on top of a person while massaging them. CRANK HIGH VOLTAGE is a repulsive movie that picks up where the first movie, another trashy action flick, left off. Ria hits Eve, who then smashes something onto Ria's head. He then fights with them but ultimately falls off. Two men talk about the number of organs that could be harvested from a man, they look at a diagram and one makes a circle around a line drawing of male genitals. Venus strikes one person with nunchuckas and then head-butts another, while Chev jams a rod through one man's body (with bloody results). We see many strippers doing their thing in a strip club, including sexy dancing, and some lap dancing, all while scantily clad, with some of those women displaying their bare breasts and most of their bare butts. Violence: - Frequent and prolonged portrayals of graphic violence with detailed images. FRIGHTENING SCENES We are a totally independent website with no connections to political, religious or other groups & we neither solicit nor choose advertisers. At various points in the film, we see an internal view of Chev's artificial heart with blood flowing through it. The Neveldine/Taylor combination are back at it with Crank 2: High Voltage, but it's a slight slump from it's predecessor, with the amount of lackluster material that tends to wander off the subject. How soon after "Crank" ends does "Crank: High Voltage" begin? Needing a jolt for his artificial heart, Chev takes Doc Miles' advice and tries to create static electricity by rubbing up against other people. Needing to jolt his artificial heart, Chev uses jumper cables attached to his nipple and tongue to shock himself. Chev breaks a car window to get inside and hotwire the car. In addition, various Asian characters are played as exaggerated stereotypes that might be offensive to some viewers. Venus gives Chev a ride on his motorbike, but they end up wiping out and crashing onto the street. Later, when that tank breaks, Chev picks up the head, spits into the face, and then punts the head into a pool. A dog tackles a police officer and bites his crotch repeatedly. A ricocheting bullet hits a man in the head, killing him (with bloody results). Chico and his men drag Chev in the water behind a quickly moving boat. One thing I will say, I took my wife with me to see this and all the way through the film she had that "Could this get anymore ridiculous" look on her face. I saw it in theaters with a friend (who was also 17) and I know several 16-year-olds who were trying to get in, but the theater was IDing people. Johnny is suddenly shot in the head, with very bloody results. Doc Miles states that he used to be a surgeon, but lost his license when he botched his wife's vaginal rejuvenation in their basement. Needing to jolt his artificial heart, Chev uses jumper cables attached to his nipple and tongue to shock himself. He then comments on flossing his teeth with some "pubes," but nothing else happens as a ricocheting bulletin hits him in the head and kills him. A man rubs against an elderly woman, she protests and hits him with her purse. Eve has a little bit of a bloody lip after fighting with some cops. Is "Crank: High Voltage" based on a book? Crank: High Voltage Movie review by James Rocchi, Common Sense Media Common Sense says age 18+ Grisly, gory, over-the-top action-parody isn't for kids. He leaps from one part of a parking garage to the next and so on to continue the pursuit, and eventually lands on the hood of their car. When Doc Miles asks a woman if she's found the donor, she playfully replies, "Like you got a boner." Coming Soon. 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