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If you didn’t get enough of Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) in Crank then Crank: High Voltage is for you.  This movie picks up right where the first left off – literally.  The film’s opening scene shows Chev falling from a helicopter, which was the final scene of the original film.
 
In this installment it is a race against time for Chev to find his heart.  You see, a group of Chinese mobsters pick Chev up after he crashes from that fall.  While in their custody they cut Chev open and steal his heart and replace it with a motorized one that isn’t designed to last.

Before the doctors can remove anymore of Chev’s organs he gets out of the makeshift hospital (after kicking some ass) and starts his search for his heart.  He enlists the help of his friend, Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), who explains to Chev that he has been fitted with an artificial heart. Once the external battery pack runs out, the internal battery will kick in and he will have one hour before it stops working.  

Now it is a mad race against time to find the heart.  One disastrous thing happens after the other.  The battery pack gets smashed up, the car Chev is driving gets wreaked, he gets into a few fights.  In the midst of all of this he has to keep electrocuting himself to stay alive. 

Like the original movie, Chev has a very public sex scene (which is blurred out) with Eve Lydon (Amy Smart).  The two also did this in the first movie.  This time however it is in the middle of the race track – while a race is in progress.  While the on-lookers are hooting and hollering at Chev and Eve’s actions, horses are flying over their heads.  What’s the purpose of all this… Friction of course – you know to keep his artificial heart pumping.  

And when you didn’t think the movie could get any stranger, you might notice Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is also in the movie.  Yes folks, that’s right a Spice Girl is in the movie.  No, she isn’t playing herself; she is playing Karen Chelios, Chev’s mom in a flashback sequence.

Without giving much more of this film away, there is also a Godzilla inspired scene where Chev and his nemesis are fighting in a high voltage plant and thanks to special effects; they become larger than life during the fight scene.  

Bottom line, if you enjoyed the first movie, you are sure to enjoy this installment as it is essentially a continuation of the first, with the added twist of Chev trying to get his heart back instead of him trying to get antidote for the poisonous injection as in the first film.