10 Amazing Movies That Are Total Nonsense

Crank: High Voltage is a sequel so mind-bogglingly insane that it makes the already-daft original seem positively coherent and "grounded" by comparison.

After Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) spent the first Crank fighting to keep his adrenaline flowing in order to counteract a powerful poison coursing through his veins, the film ended with him falling out of a helicopter to his apparent demise. But as the marketing for Crank: High Voltage knowingly told audiences, "He was dead. But he got better."

Indeed, Chelios is inexplicably saved and fitted with an artificial heart for the sequel, requiring him to maintain an electric charge at all times. The 90-or-so minutes of mayhem that follow are scarcely explainable in conventional critical parlance.

This is a film that ventures from Chelios anally penetrating a man with a shotgun to strange flashbacks to his childhood, a low-budget kaiju fight, and a sidekick who suffers from "Full Body Tourette's," before the movie ends with a flaming Chelios flipping off the audience.

Hollywood loves making sequels that are just the same damn movie again, but Crank 2 saw filmmakers Neveldine/Taylor enthusiastically test what they could convince a major studio to bankroll. It abandons logic in its own strangely artful way, but more importantly it sure is a ton of fun.