Sometimes you just can’t keep a bad man down. And when that man is Chev Chelios, you really don’t want to try. At least that is the idea behind Crank 2.
There is no question that the film is running on the same concept as the original film, and the major star power of Jason Statham. The big question is if it can pull off the running idea. Especially since our favorite man vs. time since 24 died at the end of the first movie.
Well, to be fair he should have been dead. He fell from an incredibly high helicopter, into a car, and bounced badly onto the street. It looked painful, but then again so did most of the things that he did to keep himself going. But as the credits began to roll, we heard a sound that even a Timex watch would be hard pressed to make. His heart just kept on ticking.
Still we knew he had to be dead. Not that we wanted that. And the movie studio agreed, especially after they saw the ticket receipts.
This time around our man Chev is brought back to life after getting a new heart to replace his twice drugged and damaged one. It seems that someone felt that a heart this strong had to be bought, along with any other organs not crushed in the impact of his fall. Throw away the logic of how damaged everything in his body would naturally have been and Chev wakes up.
He quickly discovers that though he has a new heart, it too has a big problem. They didn’t use Duracells. And he has yet again, an hour to live unless he zaps himself with enough electricity to charge up the faulty batteries keeping him alive. He only reprieve… get his heart back - which must have been cleaned of the drugs that were killing him (maybe) – and his trusty, and obviously always on call, back alley doctor will patch him up.
Sounds easy, except he has no idea where his heart is, or who has it.
Thus starts a new round of mayhem and destruction. And more than just a few amazed people – ordinary citizen or criminal bad guy alike. Because at this point in the loose plotline, EVERYONE knows his face. They just thought he was dead. Talk about a dramatic entrance.
This isn’t even a real preview. This is essentially the entire plot. And it doesn’t matter if you know 90% of everthing that is going to happen in this movie just from the trailer. Because you can be sure it’s going to do one thing extremely well, deliver huge amounts of action with slight pause of any piddly thing like plot or dialogue.
Normally that would annoy me. I wouldn’t see the film. But with Jason Statham as the vehicle of chaos I’m excited. This should be a better film than the first. Not because there will be better writing, but because their will be more action.
The only thing that would have made me happier than watching Jason Statham getting hyperkinetic would have been that this movie came out on my birthday. But its close enough.
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