Crank 2: High Voltage (2009) - 4/10

Sometimes you want a movie to live up to your expectations so bad that you give it the benefit of the doubt and use almost "drunkgoggles" to view it. I loved the first Crank movie for the way it defied genre and instead took our GTA era of ADD editing and music to the extreme. The fact that the original only made like 25 million yet they greenlit this sequel probably meant that this had even less a budget than that did. As much as I wanted to get into this movie and turn off my brain for this way-over-the-top sequel, I just couldn't get past how absolutely horrible this movie is. What starts off as a promising continuation of the first story ends up recycling every technique and plot device over and over to the point where I was disgusted by how unbelieveable and dumb this movie was. The idea that he gets an artificial heart which he needs to shock every minute or two gets old very quickly, even when they think up new and creative ways for him to do it.

Not only is the acting by every extra in the film laughably bad, but even the action is just plain retarded to the point where he's shooting like 12 shotgun shells without reloading or just standing there and killing everyone in a room without even moving. By the time that they faked this huge Godzillaesque fight scene and brought back a talking head, I was pissed off. This movie had such potential to go against everything that people hated about the first one and instead just was more of the worst type of violence, public sex, and dirty language they could fit into one scene after the next. I like to be surprised in a movie like this, not annoyed by it. One of the worst movies i've seen in a while, Crank 2 is a disgrace.