This film sucks and it is really, really bad as
well. It makes about
as much sense as the teletubbies after you've had 6
large vodkas. Why, why
are they showing it?
we're showing at as lots of people voted for it on
request night.
Good for them.
Maybe they've heard how fantastic it is.
Maybe they've heard rumours of my Halloween Crow costume and want to see the
original?
Back in 1995 I wrote a review for some reason or other, and I've fished it
out and appended it. My opinion of it hasn't changed significantly over the
last 5 years.
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"Never mind the plot, feel the atmosphere."
"A film so cool, you could chill beer on it."
"That's that film with the dead guy, init?"
Just some of the things which could be said of The Crow, now released for
sale
on video, and reviewed below:-
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There's really no two ways about it. You're either going to love it, or hate
it, and unfortunately most people will probably hate it. Unfortunate -
because
it's a genuinely excellent film, but it's appreciative audience are in the
minority, so it's been largely dismissed by the critics.
Consider it an amalgam of Batman, Near Dark, and Hard Target. It's almost in
monochrome, with watery colours that don't matter much, when practically
everyone's wearing black, and the main character wears white make-up.
It's an intense, moody film, with stylish, and constant scenes of violence,
set
to a harsh background of screaming guitar music. Occasionally it does lapse
into scenes of character development, but these are best ignored, since
there's
a tendency for trite dialogue to emerge and belabour the moment.
There's some witty one-liners, and good throw-away comments, which make up
for the occasionally cringe-worthy moralistic lines, like "Morphine is bad
for
you" or "I guess when two people really love each other enough..."; Yeuch!
pass
me that sick-bag grandma.
The plot, by the way, in case you cared, is that Eric Draven (Brandon Lee)
and
his fiancee are murdered, and he's brought back as some kind of undead being
by
The Crow of the title. He heals from injury almost instantly, and this helps
him to stalk the streets and rooftops hunting down his killers, and
dispensing
artistic justice.
It's great, if you like that sort of thing.
If not, I suppose you'd better avoid it.
Personally I loved it. Turn off the lights, turn up the volume, put up your
feet, and switch your mind to cruise-control. Well worth renting, buying, or
at
least borowing from someone.
And yes, he did die before finishing it, but no, you can't really tell.
They usually film these things in a strange order anyway, so he's there at
the
beginning, the middle and the end.
Although not so much at the beginning, where there's a few shots from 'his'
perspective, or silhouettes of him from the back. Still, you've got to look
quite hard to spot these things, and it all looks like it was meant to be
that
way.
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Dominic
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