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David Attenborough's wonderful voice narrates another incredible BBC nature series. Planet Earth, Life, Frozen Planet, and now Africa, each takes us on a High Definition trip to some of the most amazing places on Earth. If I had to choose one of these series as the winner for the most breath taking camera work, I would have to give the honour to Africa! If I had one grouch about most nature series it would be in the grisliness in showing predators bringing down and sometimes tearing apart their prey. Africa manages to show predators at work without the overt gore. The only thing that stymies me about all of these incredible series is why they felt it necessary to release an Americanized version of each with Sigourney Weaver, Oprah, Alec Baldwin and now Forest Whitaker narrating. Attenborough's narration is as clear and concise as ever, and I would think understandable by the American viewing public.

Until I saw this film I thought Mr. Mike's Mondo Video was the worst film I had ever seen. Crank: High Voltage has now bumped Mondo to second place. This film was the most disjointed, inane, vulgar and poorly written piece of trash ever brought to the big screen. The only thing that kept me watching it to the end was to be a witness to just how much worse it could get. And it does get steadily worse to the final frame. There has never been a film made that features a more disgusting cast of characters. Films have been made that try to create an other world sense of reality, Ridley Scott's Bladerunner succeeds admirably in this. Crank: High Voltage goes way overboard in creating a world of the most foul mouthed, scabrous and vile humans ever put together in one film. In my opinion Jason Statham has damaged a steadily improving body of work with this film. It is also somewhat sad to think that this is one of David Carradine's final films.