The "video game" style construction that was introduced in the first one is just about perfected in this superior sequel. Probably the funnest and funniest film of 2009.

He got better. The movie got better. Surrealistic action in it's finest.

"Like its predecessor, Crank: High Voltage is speedball cinema, a pure narcotized rush of blistering action, odious stereotypes, and shock-for-shock's-sake nastiness." - Nick Schager

Liked this better than the original because it jumped from "over-the top action movie" to "live action video game."

Outrageous

Not as good as the first.

Just didn't do it for me. I like ultra-violence and crude humor, I like Jason Statham (for the most part), I like Dwight Yoakam, I *love* Clifton Collins Jr., and I thought the directing was unique. But by the middle of it I just wanted it to be over because it's like a complete overload. The story is terrible, the characters suck, and overall it just seems like they're trying WAY too hard to make him seem like a bad ass. I'm probably missing the point, but I could really care less.

A parody of an action film that plays like an hour and a half youtube video of pointlessness. But the audacity of the scenarios and the outlandish escalation of action goes beyond the original Crank, eventually winning me over. A solid comedy.

i wanted to just write "i don't know" instead of assigning a score but criticker wouldn't let me

Absurd as it may sound, Neveldine / Taylor's bizarre assault on the senses has something to say about video game addiction (that flashback with a petulant young Chev on the talk show isn't just fluff, folks) and the monsters it supposedly creates. The problem is they're so enamored of the purposefully garish mess they've created that the line between satire and schlock blurs, veering from commentary on the stimuli obsessed to blatantly catering to the very audience its lampooning.

What's even more incredible than a film as great as 'Crank' is that it's sequel could be any good at all. It's just too good to be true. And while it does get kinda tiresome after a while, it delievers exactly what it promises. Crank knows no limits, it creates new limits and then it crosses them just to fuck around with you. And the Godzilla-tribute one-on-one fight? Priceless.

Confidently rejecting the crude formulaics of much contemporary action/thriller product while sharply satirizing their desensitizing fits of formula and fury, Crank: High Voltage -- a sizable improvement upon 2006's Crank -- is both the best film of Jason Statham's career and one of the strongest films of 2009.