Crank: High Voltage
2009 · Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Original language: English
- action
- thriller
- crime
The story
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
What it’s like
Hyperkinetic, sun-blasted and neon-soaked, with handheld digital camera thrust into the faces of the action and frequent jump cuts, slow-motion freeze-frames, and split-screen flourishes that make Los Angeles look like a saturated comic book on amphetamines. Colours are garish: sickly yellows, hot pinks, flat blue night. The sound is a relentless industrial-rock and electronic barrage, broken by sudden silences and heartbeat-like thuds. The vibe is manic, profane and wildly unhinged, a sugar-rush of a movie best suited to a loud Friday night with friends or a deliberately chaotic late-night watch. Pacing never lets up; scenes stack on top of each other at breakneck speed, and the emotional register swings from absurd comedy to genuine tenderness in its central relationship. Intensity is high: frequent graphic violence, gunfire, fistfights, brutal bloodshed, explicit nudity and sexual content, drug use, and strong, constant profanity. It is not gentle. It is made for viewers who enjoy punk-energy spectacle, gleeful excess and black humour, and who can tolerate a relentless assault on the senses.
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