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The Crow

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome...
Review: My god, filmmakers who are going to make a comic book film need to take a look at this flick. Not only is it true to the roots of the comic, but it is a masterpiece of moviemaking; a solid story, excellent performances and a great look about it make it one of the best of its kind. Take note, it is dark and may turn some people off.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: my favorite movie since i was 7 years old
Review: the crow has been my favorite movie since i was 7 years old(i no its a lil young) I just loved the dark atmosphere and brandon lees performance was exelant. I wont get into the story but the action scenes r very good and realistic. They r not as much martial arts like brandons other film rapid fire. If u r thinkin bout seeing this by all means rent it or better yet buy it. If u like it i also recommend batman memento and daredevil

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: one of my favorite movies ever made
Review: Brandon Lee was great in this movie much like he was in every thing else he did this movie just show's how big of a genus this guy was i loved every scene, this is one of those type's of movies you just don't watch once but you want to watch over and over again geat story about love and Revenge

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Brandon Lee's last film and his best
Review: How can I put it in words, this movie rocks in so many ways I can't tell you. It's got Romance, Drama, Action, the works, Alex Proyas puts you in a comic strip itself. I mean its dark and sexy and Lee and his crow, the crow that leads him kicks bum. Possible Lee's best(examples of others include the OK movie Rapid Fire and the horrible Showdown In Little Tokyo. It kinda sucked how he died and he never got to see its great success, he was shot I think with a blank in the head, and it said that digital movie magic made it so that he appeared in the rest on the movie and there's a special edition tape that has his last interview on it). It's a classic revenge keeper flick

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A must see
Review: Yes The Crow will always be remembered as the film that Brandon Lee was accidentally shot and killed on. That aside what we have here is one of the few truly great comic-book adaptations put on film. The film is dark (with almost every scene at night or in the pouring rain) but it has such a cool edge to you you can't help but enjoy it (altough it's not for everyone) The movie is about Eric Draven who is brutally murdered along with his fiancee the night before their wedding. One year later Draven is resurrected and with the a Crow guiding him. Hunts down his killers one by one extracting his revenge.

The real meat of the movie is in Brandon Lee's performance. When he's extracting his revenge you find yourself wanting to cheer for this guy but at the same time kind of feeling sorry for his victims. Lee is relentless in his pursuit but he's also human. This isn't some mindless killing machine. This is a human being brought back to extract revenge for the horrible things that were done to him and his fiancee The Crow is just a really great cark, cool, goth movie. One of the few adaptations of a graphic novel that is truly worthy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Great Tale Of Love&Revenge
Review: This is a great movie, E.Draven(B.LEE) comes back after year from his murder to kill all the people that killed him and his wife to be Shelly(Sophia Shinas, which she does a great job in, she had more of role, but due to the death of Brandon she did not get to show off her acting skills). Some people may say its to violent but really why are you going to pay for 20 dollars for a movie that you really do not know about. This movie is like a Machiavellian tale, which Nicolo Machoveli came back in real life after 7years and killed all his enimes, he was a great Italian philsopher. A lot about this movie is great, it fells real because the acting is good and Brandon Lee died filming this movie. Their is 2 other Crow movies, City of Angels(Vincent Perez, and The Crow Salvation (with some guy and Kristen Dunts) which those movies are not even good. Now they are going to make another Crow movie The Crow:Last Preyer staring the kid in T2 and American History X. Dont waste your time, just watch this tale. R.I.P. Brandon Lee, we still miss you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It Can't Rain All The Time...
Review: Eric Draven and his fiance are brutally murdered on Devil's Night in Detroit. Guided by a mystical crow, he searches the dark streets looking for the thugs who killed him and his girlfriend. Every word Eric Draven speaks, every step he takes, every gesture, is strained with the pain of a man who's lost everything. Lee's performance is powerful and poignant.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A dark tale worthy of Shakespeare
Review: No, I'm not kidding. Yes, I'll stand by what I just wrote. The Bard himself could've written a dark, tragic story like this.

For the uninitiated:

Our story begins with the brutal murder of Eric Draven and the vicious rape of his fiance, Shelly Webster, who later dies after thirty hours of emergency surgery. Detective Albrecht, the policeman assigned to the case, is determined to solve this crime. In the distance, the city -- which is never named, by the way -- is burning from multiple fires, as the city's lowlifes celebrate another Devil's Night with rampant destruction and chaos.

One year later, Albrecht's been busted down to patrolman for refusing to stop investigating the Draven/Webster case. Another Devil's Night is fast approaching. And in the graveyard where Eric and Shelly were buried, a solitary crow lands on Eric's gravestone and taps it with its beak, as if knocking.

And Eric Draven lives again.

Eric has come back to avenge what happened to Shelly and himself, and now he's got the abilities to do it. He heals from any injury within seconds. He can feel the thoughts and sins of others. Through it all, he's guided to the violent thugs responsible for it all by the same crow that greeted him when he awoke. Not only that, but we know as much about this crow and what it's done to Eric as he himself does; which is to say, not a lot. We don't know how this happened. We don't know how any of it's possible. We know Eric himself never asked for this, because he's just as mystified by his condition as we are.

The sweeping panoramas of the city itself evoke a feeling of Blade Runner, but whereas Ridley Scott's movie was a neon-drenched postmodern future, this one reflects the urban blight and hopeless decay you'd see in present-day Detroit, Belgrade, or Baghdad. In fact, this has to be the first color movie filmed in black-and-white I've ever seen.

This movie is magnificent. It's alternately dark, violent, and amusing by turns. And Brandon Lee himself is a wonder; he's utterly convincing as an undead avenger equally consumed by rage and drowned by grief. Neither Macbeth nor Hamlet could hold a candle to the character of Eric Draven, and it's a massive credit to Brandon Lee that he could pack so much into so few lines. If not for his tragic death on-set, I firmly believe he would've gone on to even bigger and better things.

Although, what would've been better than this is hard to imagine. And I can imagine quite a bit.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Completely Wonderful
Review: I'm not a wonderful reviewer, but I just want to say that I loved the movie. The movie allows a gothic industrial feel that makes the viewer feel depressed. Sitting there, I didn't know whether to get an adrenaline rush or put my head between two pillows and cry. It made a great effect to the movie. This movie has stood the test of time.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My favorite. Simply a masterpiece
Review: After I heard from friends about this movie I decided to go out and rent it, I was expecting some good action scenes but thats it, or so I thought. When I watched it what I did get was a sad gothic love story mixed in with action, drama, romance and all other things. What really got to me was the setting, a lawless city right on the edge of an Apacolypse, also the plot may of not sounded that new or original, but Brandon Lee's performance and character, a man so overcome with love that it was felt that his soul should of been returned, really made up for it. I cannot really explain how this movie was able to obtain such a cult status, but I assure you that this is one movie that you must see in your life atleast once.


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