Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s Crank and Crank: High Voltage are films destined for cult appreciation, as brash and bold as one might expect from a film series that’s what Speed would look like if Jason Statham was playing the bus. To state it plainly: Crank is about an assassin named Chev Chelios who is injected with a poison that will kill him if his heart drops below a certain rate. Over a collective three hour period, Neveldine/Taylor deliver all kinds of outlandish content, including but most certainly not limited to self-electrocution, drug ingestion, helicopter fights, public sex, car crashes, and shootouts. It’s tasteless on numerous levels, sitting comfortably in the pantheon of vulgar auteurism, but crafted exquisitely, and in the most haphazard way (with cameras purchased from Best Buy being used in the filming and destroyed in the making).