Crank High Voltage
Crank High Voltage
Starts out where Crank left off, with Chev Chelios being scooped off the road by a Triad gang after a 14,000 foot fall from a helicopter(!). Now, Crank isn't exactly the most realistic film that's ever been made so it was fairly apparent that any sequel would tread the same path. I can safely say that Crank High Voltage makes Crank look like a documentary.
The gist of it is that a dying Triad leader needs a heart transplant and since Chev survived the "Chinese shit" poison, they harvest his heart for the leader and give him a temporary mechanical heart. Upon hearing that they intend to take his (very large, as implied by the medical diagram and the Nurse's reaction) cock he mutters "Fuck this!" tops everyone and escapes to get his heart back :D
It's a more deliberately amusing than the first, a lot sillier (I can't quite believe that's possible, but it is) and it's a lot more gratuitous. It'll seem ironic coming from me, a self confessed fan of "shit going fast and blowing up" but I thought that the T&A was unnecessary as was some of the language. At times it all felt a little like it was to titillate the 13 year old boys watching it on DVD. Maybe there's something wrong with me, but when it doesn't really fit in with the story of a film, gratuitious T&A doesn't do anything for me.
However as a ridiculous, comical action romp it's second only to the original. So much so that you could just watch the first film and pretend that whenever he does anything to raise his heart rate he's actually receiving an electric shock if you want to save yourself the price of a cinema ticket.
4/5
Plans for the day...
Starts out where Crank left off, with Chev Chelios being scooped off the road by a Triad gang after a 14,000 foot fall from a helicopter(!). Now, Crank isn't exactly the most realistic film that's ever been made so it was fairly apparent that any sequel would tread the same path. I can safely say that Crank High Voltage makes Crank look like a documentary.
The gist of it is that a dying Triad leader needs a heart transplant and since Chev survived the "Chinese shit" poison, they harvest his heart for the leader and give him a temporary mechanical heart. Upon hearing that they intend to take his (very large, as implied by the medical diagram and the Nurse's reaction) cock he mutters "Fuck this!" tops everyone and escapes to get his heart back :D
It's a more deliberately amusing than the first, a lot sillier (I can't quite believe that's possible, but it is) and it's a lot more gratuitous. It'll seem ironic coming from me, a self confessed fan of "shit going fast and blowing up" but I thought that the T&A was unnecessary as was some of the language. At times it all felt a little like it was to titillate the 13 year old boys watching it on DVD. Maybe there's something wrong with me, but when it doesn't really fit in with the story of a film, gratuitious T&A doesn't do anything for me.
However as a ridiculous, comical action romp it's second only to the original. So much so that you could just watch the first film and pretend that whenever he does anything to raise his heart rate he's actually receiving an electric shock if you want to save yourself the price of a cinema ticket.
4/5
Plans for the day...
- Train chest/triceps/delts
- Finish Mirror's Edge
- Finish work on a control renderer component in time for tomorrow
- Probably watch some more of The Unit and a few films maybe
- Go and get some Nike Air Rift trainers (for gym wear, and for when I make an attempt at Parkour, inspired by Mirror's Edge)
