The stripper tells Chev that he should look at the Hollywood Racetrack for Johnny Vang. After a gunfight, Chev learns that a mobster named 'El Hurón' ('The Ferret') wants to kill him, but he doesn't find out why.Ĭhev commandeers a police cruiser with Eve and another stripper. A group of Mexican mobsters, led by Chico, show up looking for Chev. In the club, Chev finds Eve (Amy Smart), who is now working as a stripper. At the club, Chev loses Vang but picks up a hooker named Ria (Bai Ling), who sends him to a strip club where Vang is hiding out. After getting directions from a driver, Chev has the driver use jumper cables on him to charge the internal battery. Chev crashes his car, destroying the external battery pack. Miles informs Chev that once the external battery pack runs out, the internal battery will kick in and he will have 60 minutes before it stops working. After interrogating a thug, he learns the location of Johnny Vang: the Cypress Social Club.Ĭhev calls Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), who says that Chev has been fitted with an AbioCor artificial heart. He wakes up later and escapes, noticing an external battery pack is attached to him. The doctors place an artificial heart in his chest. Chev wakes up in a makeshift hospital and sees doctors removing his heart while Johnny Vang (Art Hsu) watches. He is scooped off the street by gangsters and removed from the scene. Upon its release, Crank: High Voltage received positive reviews with many praising the acting, action sequences, humor, story and writing.Ĭhev Chelios (Jason Statham) lands in the middle of an intersection after falling out of a helicopter. The film was released in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2009, two days prior to its North American release date April 17, 2009. Alongside Statham, the film also stars Dwight Yoakam (reprising his role as Doc Miles), Bai Ling, Amy Smart (reprising her role as Eve), Efren Ramirez, Reno Wilson and Clifton Collins, Jr. The story of the film resumes shortly after the first film left off, in the current film, the ex-hit man Chev Chelios finds out he must fight on his life once again as his true heart is transferred and he becomes equipped with an artificial heart, and he reveals he must get injected with electric shocks in order to stay alive and kill those who did it to him.
The film was written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor and stars Jason Statham reprising his role as Chev Chelios. Crank: High Voltage (billed as Crank 2: High Voltage in some regions and on DVD) is a 2009 American action film and the sequel to Crank.