After falling over 100,000ft, or something like that, out of the sky somehow Chev Chelios [Jason Statham] lives. He is immediately picked up by members of the triad and sent to the operating room. Three months later he wakes up without his heart and a new electrical heart and a battery attached to his waist. He’s now chasing after his heart, or as he put it so eloquently his “strawberry-tart”.

Now I’ve made it perfectly clear my hatred for the first movie that was released a few years ago. However, I decided to give Mr. Chelios another chance to win me over and headed out to the theatre to see this completely ludicrous sequel. An hour and a half later I can’t stop thinking how much fun I had watching this movie. I thought it had just the right amount of ridiculous sprinkled on a load of action that definitely works for me. I spent so much of this movie just laughing at the screen.

When Chelios wakes up and escapes from the operating room it was just amazing. I loved that whole sequence with him moving around and killing off bad guy after bad guy one after another that reminded me somewhat of a stealth video game. Even though Chelios wasn’t trying to be stealthy on purpose, it just turned out that way that they didn’t need to have a hoard of bad guys all at once.

Now don’t let it be said that this movie is anywhere near a great film. It has its fair share of problems, most of them being shear ridiculousness. However, there are two main scenes that I thought were just too out there and just left me feeling like it was just a bit much. One of them was the sequence where they used the big Statham head and the other was where they had this whole “Fuck You Chelios” cartoon on screen, I don’t want to give too much away so I won’t go into detail. I believe in general the last twenty minutes of the movie wasn’t that great maybe it was that this kind of movie can’t keep my attention for too long or it was just winding down. The best part of the last third of the movie was David Carradine showing up as Poon Dong the head of the triad who is after Chelios’ heart from the get go, he just looks hilarious.

One thing that deserves mention here is the amazing camera work during the movie. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor definitely figured out how to make me feel like I was on a ninety-minute roller-coaster ride. I think that the use of all the digital cameras were great since the movie had its own special feel that made it different from the regular non-stop action movie, like Shoot Em Up. I loved whenever the movie would stop and you would get a 180° turn with still images, so you would be able to tell it was that they took numerous pictures at the exact same moment and continue the film at the new angle without skipping a beat. It’s a used effect, especially after The Matrix; however I enjoyed seeing it in this movie.

Overall I think that this movie isn’t good but ridiculous fun and more than worth the price of the ticket. If this is what Fast & Furious was trying for, then yes I like. So go and see it, but just know what you’re going to. Also I definitely think if you’re going to see this go with your friends and leave the lady-friend at home with her romantic comedies, this is not that kind of movie.

IMDB says 8.1/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 70%

I say 7.5/10

PS. They do work it in for Chelios and Eve [Amy Smart] to have sex again in public.