Lionsgate [2009] 96′
country: United States
director: NEVELDINE / TAYLOR
cast: JASON STATHAM, AMY SMART,
cast: DWIGHT YOAKAM, EFREN RAMIREZ
Picking up just moments after 2006′s CRANK left off, HIGH VOLTAGE begins with ubermensch Chev Chelios [Statham] being scraped up from the Los Angeles sidewalk by minions from the Chinese Triad and thrown into the back of a van. Three months later he’s back on the street, his heart having been removed and replaced with a creaky artificial model whose battery must be kept charged through increasingly ludicrous means, on the hunt for the Chinese mafia lord who has his ticker and a problematic thug known as The Ferret.
Other characters enter and exit at random – lover Eve [Smart], unlicensed physician Doc Miles [Yoakam], Chinese prostitute Ria [Bai Ling], and full-body Tourette sufferer Venus [Ramirez] – as Chelios bounces from action setup to action setup.
