It felt like it went on at least twice that! Having never seen Crank 1, I was roped into seeing this by a friend who had seen the first, and we both left disappointed. It’s simply not a good movie. No likable characters, stupid action scenes, plenty of gratuitous violence, no story, and some of the worst CGI I’ve seen in recent years (at the very end).
Granted, I’m betting all of that (apart from the bad CGI) was intentional, but so what? If a director sets out to make a shitty film and fulfills that goal, it doesn’t get a free pass for simply meeting his own expectations. This film is garbage and one of the worst I’ve seen in years.
Had I not depended on my friend for a ride home, I would have walked out.
Oh yeah, there’s a public sex scene, but she’s clothed for most of it. She does prance around for the first half of the movie practically topless…except for tape covering her nipples…grrr.
I don’t care one bit about this movie but i’d still like to know how he survived the end of the last one. I know the premise of the movie is that they replaced his heart and he needs electric shocks to stay alive?
Yup. As for how he survived the helicopter fall…well, he just did. He gets scooped off the concrete by the gang, they harvest his heart, and replace it with a mechanical one.
I think the whole premise behind this movie is lets see how over the top we can make Jason Statham and keep the fangirls coming back.
I mean… the whole reason I watch Jason Statham movies is to see him as nude as possible while kicking ass. I’m pretty sure that’s the whole reason my girl friends watch his movies, and sometime soon I’m sure my butt will be in a seat watching it with my friends. I think the last few times I’ve been to his movies, many of the seats were girls…
What do you expect from a sequel of a movie that was based around the death of the protagonist?
Jason Statham is indeed hot, and he’s in some really good movies like Revolver. We watched the Transporter 3 the other day, cheesy as fuck but kind of fun. Crank 2 has no excuse for existing, and we will not be seeing it.
Awesome. That’s the scene that ruined the first movie for me: the most misogynist moment in mainstream movies since True Lies. Also incredibly gratuitous: made no sense at all, and was obviously included just for the cavemen in the audience.
I’ve seen the trailer for this twice, and it strikes me as perhaps the stupidest concept in the history of film. Even the dialog in the trailer is unintentionally hilarious.
“If you can get hold of your heart, I’m reasonably sure I can put it back in.”
(With an X-acto knife on his kitchen table, probably. And “reasonably sure”? I’d want better odds than that.).
But I now have a new sig.
“You’re going to tell me exactly who has my heart.”
I liked Crank quite a bit, though I didn’t see it in theatres. The whole thing is a ridiculous parody of the action movie genre (rather like Shoot 'Em Up) and I’d rather view it as a hyperkinetic black comedy than anything else.
But Statham’s character surviving… I find that insulting on some level.
I saw Crank on TV, and I have to admit it wasn’t bad watching. Better with beer and playing a video game on the side, though. Of course, I thought it was something of a comedy, so your mileage may vary.
I loved the first Crank, and I thought this one was hilarious! It’s mind-bogglingly stupid, but in a very clever way. As I was in the theater watching this, I was wishing I owned a car so I could see this at a drive-in.
Driving into the middle of a porn star picket line?
A 3 way gun battle between a Mexican gang, a Chinese gang and a bunch of machine-gun equipped strippers - then the gay S&M bikers show up? This thing was like anS. Clay Wilson story come to life.
Later that day I saw “State of Play”, which is it’s exact opposite, and enjoyable for completely different reasons.
