Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Crank 2 High Voltage.....Movie Download...



The end of the first film seemed to quite clearly rule out any possibility of a sequel and one of the most telling characteristics of Crank: High Voltage is simply that it exists. This is a film that disregards anything like the basic narrative logic of a ‘dead’ character staying dead because the realities of dying are rooted in the rigid actualities of biology, chemistry and physics. These are three things that the film has absolutely no use for. But it does make great play with non-rigid and non-actual cartoon versions of all the above. When the film is at its best, it verges on Tex Avery, and Jason Statham is Screwy Squirrel given permission to cause suffering, pain and offence

The biggest changes are technical and, as a result, aesthetic. The film employs a wide-angle hand-video style for the vast majority of shots, and the footage has been processed* to strobe slightly, as per film that was shot with the shutter angled and shutter speed increased (see Saving Private Ryan or Gladiator). The resulting look is both crisp and jerky and, if nothing else, prevents either of the two prevalent ‘video’ looks - the normal, too crisp style and the ‘fixed’, softened pseudo film-look. There are a number of shots in which the camera operator tracks back from the actor and passes through an obstacle - a narrow break in a chain link fence, for an example - giving access that would have been costly and time consuming to replicated with a larger camera or a crane. As a result, the images are up close and intimate, though this is probably not your idea of a pleasant kind of intimacy.

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