Crank: High Voltage (2009) Poster

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MPAA Rated R for frenetic strong bloody violence throughout, crude and graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Brief full frontal female nudity and female anus is seen during a montage
  • During a shootout at a strip club, a topless woman is shot and we see her bare breasts ooze blood and silicon and deflate in a grotesque manner.
  • We see an exotic dance club in a few scenes with many topless women (bare breasts and buttocks are visible) dancing suggestively while men watch; a few men touch the women and give them money.
  • We see several topless women around a swimming pool wearing thongs that reveal bare buttocks and one woman's pubic region is shown.
  • Many people, including several women in various stages of undress, flee a house called a "social club" (we see bare breasts and buttocks).
  • A topless woman straddles a man and massages him.
  • A man rubs an ice cube on a woman's bare buttocks, then squeezes and slaps them (she is wearing a thong).

Violence & Gore

  • This film is bloodier, gorier and even more graphically violent than the already very brutal first film. The film is also much darker than its predecessor, and it has MUCH more violence and gore, more bloodshed, more graphic sex and more profanity than ever before. The content is pretty vulgar too, and overall, this is an extremely violent and mature film, and is easily one of the most violent movies ever made. That said, this film has less drug and alcohol content than its predecessor.
  • A man shoots several men repeatedly (we see blood spurt and splatter and open holes).
  • A man shoots dozens of bullets at several other men while inside a car (we see a great deal of blood, matter and fabric being blown through the air and the man has blood splattered on his face). One man is shown with his guts hanging out.
  • A car strikes a woman, she is thrown high into the air (her shoes fall to the ground) and we see her later and she appears OK (she has a bit of blood on her nose).
  • A man driving a car crashes into a cement barricade and is thrown through the windshield and onto the street (he moans and has a bit of blood on his face, but is otherwise OK).
  • A man is punched hard in the face (we see blood in his mouth).
  • A woman punches a man, kicks him in the crotch, and throws him onto the hood of a car and he breaks the windshield.
  • A woman head-butts another woman.
  • A man throws another man onto the floor (we see blood on the floor next to him but he seems OK).
  • A woman punches another woman in the face (she gets a bloody lip) and the other woman strikes her in the head with a bottle.
  • A boy beats another boy in the head with a steel garbage can, and then strikes a teacher who tries to pull him away.
  • A man holds a gun on another man who punches him in the throat and takes the gun away.
  • Several men hold another man by the arms and another man jams a cattle prod to his testicles (we see him yelling).
  • A man is struck hard on the back with a metal rod (he falls to his knees).
  • A man punches and kicks police officers who then beat him repeatedly with batons and also taser him. The man then tasers the police officers, then punches and kicks them and holds a gun on one.
  • A man punches one man in the face, wraps medical tubing around another man's throat, and stabs the first man in the neck with a hypodermic needle.
  • A man beats another man using straps with hooks on the ends and we see bloody cuts open on his back.
  • There is a long, bloody, and chaotic shootout in the end between several gangs. Chev strangles one man and stabs another, several people are shot in bloody ways, a naked woman is used as a human shield, and one man uses nunchucks and fights several other men. A life support machine keeping a severed head alive is shot up and Chev kicks the head into a pool. Two men brutally fight each other and one punches the other repeatedly. Very long and violent scene.
  • Very graphic, frenetic, and relentless violence throughout the film.
  • A man is ordered to cut off his own nipple (he moans, we see the skin pulling away and we see the bloody hole remaining); he is then ordered to cut off the other nipple (again we see blood, the skin pulling away as it is cut, and the man moans); later we see the man pick up the severed nipples from the bloodied floor and see him with band aids over the wounds.
  • A man swings a machete and cuts another man's elbow off (we see the piece of flesh and blood splatter on the floor).
  • We see an unconscious man in an ambulance with his intestines out of his body (we see a pile of slimy, blood covered intestines) and EMTs try to put them back in and revive him.
  • A man beats another man with a rifle, pulls his pants down, dips the barrel of the rifle in tar, and shoves it in his rectum. Crunching can be heard and the tortured man moans in pain as the other man keeps pushing the rifle and asks questions.
  • A man on an operating table is semi-lucid and looks around the room while a man removes his beating heart from his chest (we hear squishing, we see blood, tissue and the beating heart); another man in the room flicks cigarette ash in the open cavity in the mans' chest and then spits in it. We see a man's open, bloody chest cavity on an operating table as an organ transplant is underway and paddles are charged and used to start his heart (we see him flinch from the charge). We see a severed head attached to tubs floating in a tank of water (the head moves its mouth and blinks its eyes).
  • A man is shot in the head and blood spurts against the wall behind him and next to him. A man is shot in the head and we see skull and matter shoot out of the back of his head.
  • There is a violent, bloody shootout in a strip club between Chelios and several gangs. A topless woman shoots many people, but gets shot in her breast implants, which profusely ooze silicon and blood and deflate. Other men are violently killed.
  • A man jams a metal rod through another man's chest and we see the rod push out through his back.
  • Two men, who look like giant puppets, fight in a high voltage area: one is zapped, the two men continue to fight and throw each other back and into more of the electrical equipment, one man punches the other in the face repeatedly (we see his bloody mouth), and he then lifts a box over the man's head to strike him once.
  • A man punches a man in the face and a woman then hits the semi-conscious man in the crotch several times with a bicycle.
  • A man is shown weakened when his artificial heart's battery gets low, and he uses many types of electrical charge to power himself up: He climbs a power pole and grips the high voltage equipment (he is thrown back and onto the ground in flames and we see blistered, burning flesh), he attaches auto jump cables to his nipple and his tongue (he moans), he sticks his finger in a car cigarette lighter, he puts a dog training collar around his neck and punches the zap button, he tases himself repeatedly, and he grabs two pieces of a high voltage device and is jolted.
  • A woman is thrown through the door of a house (she has a bloody nose) and is followed by a man with a knife. Many people are thrown through windows and out of a house, and others run out of the house.
  • A man in flames gives a woman a hug and we see her in flames too (she screams and runs away).
  • A man crashes down onto a car, bounces high into the air and back onto the ground (we see blood on his ear and eye).

Profanity

  • The final scene has the main character giving the middle finger towards the camera.
  • 135 uses of "fuck", 21 uses of "shit", 14 uses of "ass", 5 uses of "bitch", 5 uses of "cunt", 3 uses of "dick", 2 uses of "cocksucker", and 1 use of "whore".
  • Racial and homophobic language: 1-2 uses each of 'fag' and 'homo' and 2 derogatory terms for both Hispanics and Asians. Offensive material scattered throughout the movie.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The movie's title (Crank) comes from the slang term for methamphetamine.
  • A man drinks alcohol in a few scenes. Men smoke cigarettes in several scenes.
  • There are some scenes where it looks like people are smoking marijuana, but it could be cigarettes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Much more violent and more explicit than the first film.
  • The final shootout is long, bloody, and intense.
  • The scene where a man is forced to cut off his own nipple is very intense.
  • The whipping is very brutal.
  • Although the constant, extremely graphic violence is done in an over-the-top, light-hearted, and comical way, it's still difficult to watch.
  • The fight with the cops outside the strip club is brutal and intense.

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • in a scene where Chev gets electrocuted with the car engine can scare and disturb some people

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