Well, big fan of the first Crow movie, like a lot of people. This extremely unfocused and soulless sequel opened the floodgates for the Crow franchise and more family-orientated versions, in the same way that the Robocop franchise disappeared down the toilet.
Not a huge amount of sense nor drive about the narrative, this version has been over-edited so it's often confusing what is going on, big holes in character motivation, you end up not caring about any of the characters.
Whereas the first film conjured up a magnificent air of Gothic gloom, this one just isn't nasty enough, and that's how revenge thrillers work - you need to know how bad the bad guys are and how horribly the hero has been wronged to care about his mission to avenge himself and take some pleasure when he ices a bad guy. What you get here is a watered-down version that misfires on a number of levels, the acting isn't great and the script truly sucks, but I can forgive those if there is something genuine at the film's core. There is something wholly ingenuine at this movie's core however, even the photography and iconography plays like a long soulless rock video, full of its own importance but actually delivering nothing. Proper turkey
Not a huge amount of sense nor drive about the narrative, this version has been over-edited so it's often confusing what is going on, big holes in character motivation, you end up not caring about any of the characters.
Whereas the first film conjured up a magnificent air of Gothic gloom, this one just isn't nasty enough, and that's how revenge thrillers work - you need to know how bad the bad guys are and how horribly the hero has been wronged to care about his mission to avenge himself and take some pleasure when he ices a bad guy. What you get here is a watered-down version that misfires on a number of levels, the acting isn't great and the script truly sucks, but I can forgive those if there is something genuine at the film's core. There is something wholly ingenuine at this movie's core however, even the photography and iconography plays like a long soulless rock video, full of its own importance but actually delivering nothing. Proper turkey