I always found the Trasporter series to be a pretty good one too.
I really enjoyed the first one, and to a lesser extent, the third. The second was pretty poor, though.
The best thing about the second one is the crazy chick with the submachine guns. 
Ah well, don’t see the third one then! They only get worse.
That movie he did with Jet Li was awful. But that other movie he did with Jet Li was pretty decent.
I agree with the OP, the movie sucked. I liked the first one. Sure it was a silly premis, but it walked that fine line between poking fun at the genre without going over it into crap. Which this movie dove right into a pile of and wallowed around in it. Even the large amounts of female nudity couldn’t make up for this. And I actually found myself annoyed at the wierd pixilated scenes. There are ways of setting up a shot not to show parts of the body if you want to, having pixles across them was just stupid. Terrible movie. Even worse than Dragonball Evolution. I’m not having much luck with movies lately. Even the ones I go to only for the cheesy popcorn flick value are falling short.
Ah, I was a fan of crank, and this one definately hit all the right spots, they took all the talking out of Crank and just ramped it up to 11 for this movie.
And I also totally agree with Gaffa. That was my comment to my buddy: “This film replaces Grindhouse as the most Grindhousey film I’ve seen.” It looked like they had fun with making the film, and it was def. entertaining.
Summing up Amy Smart’s character’s justification of how he survived the fall:
“I saw it happen once on Youtube!” 
As proof of this, the score has already dropped from its 8.0 to a 7.6.
The character who says that is a heart surgeon with a functional OR in his house, so it’s not THAT stupid.
I thought the movie was a blast. Like jackdavinci said, it’s a videogame. The absurdity is the point. It isn’t supposed to be believable, it isn’t supposed to be a story, it’s supposed to be a frenetic, surrealistic, live action cartoon. It’s a joke. The whole thing is a parody of hollywood, superhuman, action hero steretypes. Chelios is not supposed to be a real, plausible person. He’s Duke Nukem. He’s “action hero” pushed to its most absurd limits and then beyond. If you’re tying to watch it staright, then of course you’re not going to get it. It’s like watching Scary Movie expecting to get scared.
I thought Crank 2 was pretty inventive and clever in a number of ways – the dream sequence of Chelios as a child on a talk show, the title card reading “9 seconds later” during a foot chase, the gay biker with Full Body Tourette’s, David Carradine as an ancient, Chinese pussy hound. The whole movie was full of winks and wit and energy.
If the OP didn’t get it, he didn’t get it. Fine, whatever. I can’t agree that it was “garbage,” though.
This line always seems to get trotted out whenever someone’s opinion of something is contrary to another’s. It’s not a matter of “not getting”–I get it, the movie was intentionally stupid–that doesn’t mean I have to like it. There have been plenty of “stupid” movies I’ve enjoyed. Crank: High Voltage is not one of the.
It wasn’t “stupid,” intentionally or otherwise. It was absurdist. There’s a difference.
I know, I was being facetious.
Oh you guys are so Dada!
I agree with **Diogenes the Cynic **. In fact, this may be my favorite movie of the year. I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a movie so much.
Look folks: As someone from Fark said, this movie is Tom and Jerry with whores. Stop asking questions, grab a beer, grab some PopRocks and let your ID run free. If you need for there to be a reason for something to happen apart from “because it would be freaking awesome if it did” buy a ticket for something else.
Let me break this down: I found nothing in the movie to be “freaking awesome”–period. Even if such scenes existed in a vacuum and I had no knowledge of the surrounding mediocrity, I would not think any higher of the scenes in that movie.
Did you enjoy the first movie at all? 'Cause, I mean, this was a sequel to the movie where the main character fell thousands of feet out of a helicopter… and lived to run around like a maniac three months later. Logic and reality need not apply- the position’s already been filled by action and absurdity.
I enjoyed it. I didn’t like it as much as the first movie, but I don’t regret the cost of the movie ticket.
As I stated in the OP, I did not see the first movie. And the helicopter drop didn’t really bother me at all. A movie doesn’t have to make sense for me to like it; it just has to be enjoyable, which this was not.
From the trailers, it looks like it’s a parody of those stupid, over the top action movies (and a bit of Jason Statham making fun of himself). Am I right, or does any meta-humor have to be self-brought?
You’re right. The movie in no way takes itself seriously.
Probably one of the better movies of the past couple of years. Awesome in its awesomeness.