It’s one thing to come up with an awesome-sounding concept for an action movie, but it’s a much tougher proposition to actually deliver on the promise of unbridled ass-kicking insanity. If it wasn’t for star Kate Beckinsale, then there’d be nothing much to recommend about Jolt whatsoever, but her phenomenal performance does its best to try and drag the material up to her level.
A spiritual successor of sorts to Jason Statham’s unhinged Crank duology, Beckinsale’s Lindy Lewis is a bouncer with severe anger management issues, which have gotten so bad that she wears a specialized vest designed to give her an electric shock whenever she feels murderous rage beginning to bubble up inside of her.