{"id":6258,"date":"2011-06-08T19:48:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T23:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:09:55","slug":"crankcrank-2-200609-neveldinetaylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6258","title":{"rendered":"Crank\/Crank 2 (2006\/09, Neveldine\/Taylor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crank<\/strong><br \/>\nJust the combo of stupid\/fun I was looking for.  Asshole (Jason Statham) gets injected with <em>Speed<\/em> plot device, has to keep his heart rate up while finding out who killed him, very <em>D.O.A.<\/em>  It&#8217;s ridiculous, but knows it&#8217;s ridiculous, keeps the energy high and ends up a <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4387\">Shoot &#8216;Em Up<\/a><\/em>-caliber success<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crank: High Voltage<\/strong><br \/>\nJust the movie to put a damper on the fun spirit of the first movie, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5856\">Hatchet 2<\/a><\/em>-style.  Cartoon credits and an intro TV reporter calling the events implausible and saying &#8220;bullshit&#8221; on the air set up the self-aware, even-more-ridiculous sequel, but it devolves into sexist, racist trash that borrows too heavily from the first movie.  I always forget to not watch sequels to things I like.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea that Statham&#8217;s best bud was Pedro from <em>Napoleon Dynamite<\/em>.  He was a highlight of both movies.  I don&#8217;t think anyone else stood out (sorry, Amy Smart) besides Statham himself, who was so good that I&#8217;m actually considering renting the <em>Transporter<\/em> series.  I&#8217;d originally figured that I&#8217;d follow these two movies with <em>Gamer<\/em> by the same writer\/directors, despite its bad reviews, but <em>Crank 2<\/em> cured me of that.  Also, naturally, I admit that both movies would&#8217;ve been better if I hadn&#8217;t watched them alone and sober.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crank Just the combo of stupid\/fun I was looking for. Asshole (Jason Statham) gets injected with Speed plot device, has to keep his heart rate up while finding out who killed him, very D.O.A. It&#8217;s ridiculous, but knows it&#8217;s ridiculous, keeps the energy high and ends up a Shoot &#8216;Em Up-caliber success Crank: High Voltage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,136,1079,1260,317],"class_list":["post-6258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-drugs","tag-electroshock","tag-neveldinetaylor","tag-resurrection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10373,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions\/10373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}