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Summary: Could have been more
Review: Somehow, this Crow just doesn't have the impact I was looking for.
The next movie in the Crow series (Salvation), created a sustained game of cat and mouse between the hero and the bad guys. It really created some tension. This movie, by contrast, seemed like a series of unrelated events. The episodes of revenge didn't build on each other - if they had been edited into any other order, it probably wouldn't have made much difference.
The ending seemed weak. I like some mystery, I don't need to have eveything explained, but I want a movie to follow its own internal rules. This one just seemed to make up new mysterious forces whenever the scriptwriter got confused.
The visual styling is noir grunge, and fairly effective. The majority of the movie has a nearly monochromatic color scheme in one hue or another. The last scene, in the afterlife, was dominated by blues. Cool and calm, it worked. The majority of the movie used tones of orange, though. I found the choice of color odd, and just never developed a strong response to it.
I like The Crow as a series, I like the gritty city images, and I like thoughtful use of color to set a mood. I just didn't like this.
//wiredweird
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Summary: not as good as the 1st but yet what is?
Review: teh original crow is definately my favorite movie by far this one isnt as good becauase its just not as dark and the acting in some places couldve been fixed especially with teh 1st guy that he kills.besides all of that this isnt that bad of a movie
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Summary: Excellent Film!
Review: The Crow - City of Angels, to me, is an excellent film. It manages to be an entertaining sequel without stealing anything away from the original. The character, Ash played by Vincent Perez(I Dreamed of Africa,Swept From the Sea), is brutally murdered along with his young son and then...you know the rest...a crow will show him the way. Vincent Perez gave an excellent performance that is bursting with emotion. He manages to portray exactly what the character is feeling. The character of Ash is completely different from that of Brandon Lee's Eric Draven. What is fun to watch, however, is the physical similiarities they both share, being around the same height, lean build, and age. I liked the make-up much better in this one, not as dramatic as the first; less is definately more!
Once Ash is geared up and ready to go, he one by one hunts down those who wronged him leaving behind a symbol of how they took part in his murder. The set is gothic and dark, the special effects are well rendered, and the acting is excellent. The only complaint that people may have is that it is not Brandon Lee. All I can say is, take the movie for what it is, a different story and installment of the crow fantasy, NOT a replacement of the first. If you haven't seen this film, I highly recommend it. Although I am still a huge fan of Brandon Lee, I like this installment of the Crow just as much if not more. After seeing this film, I instantly became a fan of Perez's as well. The always perfect theme of good vs. evil rings true in this movie. Go ahead and experience the hope and wonder of this film and take satisfaction as Ash is able to "make the wrong things right."
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Summary: Action Packed!
Review: The Crow comes back to life and starts killing people. So much fun, go see it!
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Summary: Not good
Review: The Crow is one of my favorite movies of all time. I loved Brandon Lee and if it wasn't for his tragic death during the making of movie, he would have become a superstar. I must have seen the Crow at least 30 times, however I always refused to see any of the sequels. I thought it somehow tramples on Lee's legacy. Also I thought the sequels would destroy the franchise much like Robocop. Very few sequels actually live up to the original. Well about a month ago I caught Crow Salvation on the Sci-fi channel and I was pleasantly surprised. Based on many positive reviews here on Amazon, I bought DVD. Very disappointed! Although I thought Mia Kirshner and Vincent Perez were good, the itself just didn't deliver. I thought sexually perverse villains were horrible. Although nobody compares with Michael Wincott, Richard Brooks has to be one of the worst actors ever. To make matters worse he provides audio commentary (along with others) on how he was able to play the Evil Judah. huh?? The guy has no acting talent. The absolute worst part was the ending, very disappointing resolution. Best part of the movie was Thomas Jane (THE PUNISHER) who plays a quite "masterful" role. I actually think Crow Salvation was better, probably because I didn't expect anything, but I actually expected this movie to be good.
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Summary: The Crow: City Of Angels.........sucks
Review: The Crow: City Of Angels is set years after Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) came back to life and avenged his death. Ashe, Vincent Perez (Queen Of The Damned, Swept From The Sea), and his son are brutally murdered by a gang of thugs, Iggy Pop (Coffee and Cigarettes, Dead Man), Thomas Jane (Under Suspicion, The Punisher 04'),the late Thuy Trang (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), Vincent Castallanos (Anaconda, Mulholland Dr.). After he rises back from his watery grave to avenge his and his son's death. Perez paints his face and puts on a long coat and struts around killing them all off till he gets to the end boss, Richard Brooks (tv's Law and Order, Shocker). Vincent Perez fails miserably in an annoying, grating and a headache of a performance. Iggy Pop is also wasted in a role not fit for him. Film has the worst dialouge you can imagine, the characters are so unlikable and the action scences never seem to stop. The chase scene with Pop and Perez on motorcycles is neverending. The final battle goes along the lines as well. Doesn't even surpass the first, doesnt even come close at all. Mia Kirshner (Exotica, Not Another Teen Movie) stars as the grown up version of the little skateboarding girl named Sarah from the first one, though she cant even survive this monstrosaty.
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Summary: I wish i could give it zero stars
Review: The first Crow was an excellent film....and it's so tragic how the entire plot of the movie circles around death and in the process of making it Brandon Lee's life came to an end....he in the process though made one of the best movies i've ever seen. The best action movie ever, unquestionably......the plot was great, the acting was brilliant, the script had meaning, heart, soul........there is not one bad word you can say about the first Crow. Rest In Peace Brandon.As far as Crow 2: City Of Angels GRRRRR!!!!!! BAD BAD BAD BAD SHAMEFUL BAD This movie is terrible. Brandon has been replaced with a fat balding english man hopping around yelling stupid stuff to the extent of "I'm going to get you"...the witty repartee has been replaced with terrible drivel. Iggy Pop isn't even a threatening villain...but maybe it's because Iggy Pop is so cool. Even Iggy Pop and The Deftones couldn't save this one. Dont waste your money.....go buy The Crow and marvel at it's greatness.
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Summary: The Crow: The City of Angels
Review: The sequel to the Crow was a fairly good movie, held back by uninteresting villians that make you go "blah". I did not like the new main character in this movie at all, but the supporting actress who played Sarah was excellent. The story was just not near as interesting as the first movie, and the actors not near the quality of Brandon Lee.
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Summary: the good, the not-so-good.... and the horribly mangled
Review: The story line is wonderful, just like the first(james o'barr is great at that), but the acting leaves something to be desired. Whoever plays Judah (richard something, i think) has no emotion, and seems to be just reciting memorized lines. The "bad-guys" aren't as frantic in city of angels as they are in the original(yes, i AM comparing, get over it. you must understand that after seeing how great the wonderful the original was, i had high expectations for city of angels), and ashe seemed more interested in his relationship with sarah than his revenge, although vincent perez was good. she says he "goes back" when he's finished, and he replies, "what if i don't want to go back?" Sarah is back from the original, as a tattoo artist, and somehow her hair color AND texture have changed. In the original crow, Brandon Lee sort of played out his murder, and I was expecting that from this movie, instead of just screaming. There are a few good shots of ashe's face, but i still wonder about the appearing-disappearing black lipstick. I didn't like how the crow symbol "magically" appeared, where-as Eric Draven created the brand himself. there are a few great quotes here, such as Ashe saying, "Do you want me.. baby?", then there are the horrible quotes, such as "Do you know how to die?" and "You are going to die now." And I kept waiting for the distillers song "city of angels" to play right after Sarah said, "they say this is the city of angels, but all around me is death." I can't help but wonder if Brody used that to write: "they say/this is the city/the city of angels/all i see is dead wings." (The Distillers, Sing Sing Death House) But it was a pretty good movie, the kind you rent ever once in a while or catch it when it's on tv, not the kind you buy.
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Summary: Dark is dark and angels have black wings
Review: This film is a great dark vision of life and it questions our faith and trust in it that has some density only in our illusion of love. Life is nothing but a showcase that hides the real dark world of death that lurks behind the wings of the crow, the wings of the stage on which we strut like peacocks. And in those wings we could find, if we dared to go behind them, death in all its forms, in all its shapes, be it drugs, be it extreme sex, be it violence, be it torture, be it suffering. There is no escape from this unfathomable truth. This vision is a deep dive and high jump into what rots and reeks beneath the surface of our sunny world, of our rich society, of our brilliant culture. Beneath it all there is only the coming doom of the end forecast by some blind visionary, some blinded priestess, some self-blinded witch that will cast her oracle onto us when she wants, when she decides, because it is her fate to do so when her blind vision will cease or become too bright for her eternal night. What can we do against this destiny ? Nothing except maybe become as bad as all this is, and get our vengeance on the puppets who are manipulated by some evil force that they do not even know exists. Evil is eternal and bottomless. Evil is the only future we keep in our heritage from the dark centuries of the past. He who thinks God is dead is right. He who thinks Satan never existed is right. He who thinks that man is the only perpetrator of his own doom is right. The doom of humanity will not come from some transcending force but only from the rule that the supreme predator that man is will eventually destroy the whole species, and man is already at work in that direction, some men being ready to kill everyone and even the planet and life as a whole in the name of the survival of the fitter, that is to say of them who will then destroy themselves when they do not have any more preys to chase after and kill. The survival of the fittest, then, will mean the end of the whole humanity and the return of chaos, which is nature naked and brutal because chaos is a human concept to describe the natural order of the eternal cycle of life and death. And in our malediction we may keep, in the deepest and darkest layers of our mental eye, the image of a child that could not survive this hazardous providence. God bless the child. But since the child is dead who can bless hilm ?
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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