2009 · action · thriller · crime
Crank: High Voltage
Directed by Mark Neveldine1h 36m2009
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.
Our read: Crank: High Voltage (2009) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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