We got a few jeers from posting some secrets of The Office yesterday without including one of these:
Possible Spoiler Alert!
We’re of the thought that if you can’t know basically everything about a movie and still enjoy it as a film, then the movie was just some sort of SFXtavaganza that didn’t matter anyway or one of those films that hinges on the shock value of one scene (egg-eye from Hostel, anyone?).
That being said, we knew a lot about the original Crank when it came out. We just had to go see it because we couldn’t believe what we were hearing.
A guy who has public sex with his girlfriend in Chinatown to keep his heart from stopping? A movie whose very plot was based on adrenaline.
On top of Jason Statham’s Chev Chelios character getting a new heart at the beginning of the sequel, we don’t know too much.
Luckily, we’re about to clear that up. Right now.
From Latino Review:
Asian gangsters in a black van arrive on the scene and scrape Chelios off the ground. They toss him inside the van and take off before the authorities and emergency personnel arrive.
Three months later, in an operating room, Chev awakens MID SURGERY strapped down on an operating table. He can’t move or speak. His chest is split open! Chinese doctors remove his heart while the bad guy Johnny Vang watches. The doctor’s ooooh and aaaahh at the site of “The Chelios Heart.” It gets placed in a red igloo cooler. A nurse brings over a futuristic looking artificial heart made from clear flex plastic, black rubber and metal. Chelios passes out again for another three weeks.
Chev reawakens at a Chinese massage parlor in Long Beach and makes his escape in the movies first action sequence. He then gets the lowdown on his heart from DOC MILES (Dwight Yoakam).
Chev has been outfitted with an ABIOCOR TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART. It has an internal battery that will pick up once the battery belt dies. It’s like a reserve tank but only good for one hour.
The Abiocor is designed to keep you alive only for a couple of days while waiting for a transplant. It is not built for strenuous activity.
The internal battery charges wirelessly through the transcutaneous energy transfer system – two coils, one internal and one external that transmit power via magnetic force across the skin without piercing the surface. The internal coil receives the power and sends it to the controller device. Basically Chev has to keep his body electrically charged to keep his ticker running. Whereas in the first movie he needed adrenaline to stay alive, in Crank: High voltage he needs jolts of electricity to stay alive.
Nice!
