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.
The movie feels like a form of aversion therapy designed to take the fun out of dumb.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
20 Apr 2009
fresh:
Tasteless, trashy and totally over the top, Crank: High Voltage might also be one of the year's most inventive movies. Sometimes, nothing exceeds like excess.
– Jason Anderson,
Toronto Star,
20 Apr 2009
rotten:
Crank: High Voltage, starring Jason Statham as a man with a machine instead of a heart, is boorish, bigoted and borderline pornographic.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
20 Apr 2009
rotten:
In Crank: High Voltage, Statham just looks miserable, as if appearing in this lousy picture just sucked all the heart right out of him.