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Crank: High Voltage (2009)
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Movie review
From Time Out Chicago
Indestructible badass Chev Chelios (Statham) is back, this time with an artificial heart that needs to be juiced every so often by any electric means available. The ADD aesthetic of writer-directors Neveldine and Taylor is inventive to a fault, as often tiring as it is exhilarating. And the climactic shot of Statham flipping the audience the bird pretty much sums up High Voltage’s juvenile, semitransgressive intentions. Regardless, it’s got the best use of REO Speedwagon since Smiley Face.Author: Keith Uhlich
Time Out Chicago
Cast & crew
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Cast: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, David Carradine, Clifton Collins Jr, Bai Ling, Corey Haim, Efren Ramirez, Dwight Yoakam full cast
Rated: R
Duration: 96 mins
US Release: Apr 24 2009
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