The Crow

I'll refrain from spoilers in case you actually want to watch this. But if you're a fan of the original Crow by Alex Proyas or a fan of the comics. You will hate this movie, even if you're looking for a decent action movie, or a solid plot.

All that falls out the window with this film. I will try to summarize as best I can. They completely changed the original plot, practically all of it that's in the original movie or comics is zoinked into oblivion.

This film is the epitome of taking from people who wrote really good stories and thinking "hey we can do that but our way, and better". Well actually, you can't. And your way is awful.

The first thirty minutes is not only random, confusing and useless. But it tries us to get to like our main couple as some head over heels deeply in love romantic saga. When actually it's two drug addicts who escape rehab together to immediately hook up and do more drugs, after knowing each other a few days. For almost what seems like 10 minutes of the film we get to enjoy some spectacle of random making out, sex, drugs and corny high school level cringe dialogue thrown in.

They're talking about how much they love each other after a week together? What? What's shown isn't love or romance, it's infatuation and it doesn't make us connect with these characters.

The plot continues to muddle along to no man's land to the point where if you watched the original or the comics, you're just waiting for them to get killed so at least you can watch some bloody revenge action.

Nope. What you saw in the trailer is basically what you get. About 20 minutes of this movie is action. And I must admit, those sequences are actually good, and really violent. If they could have done more of that, maybe this could have been around a 5.

They tried to give The Crow a villain, with some "powers" of his own. I'll leave it at that, but none of this is explained so it feels forced and random. They could have flushed it out, but they wanted to spend the first forty minutes focusing on this cringy hook up session trying to convince us how deeply in love these two are. Look at them laughing half naked smoking pot, aren't they soooo in love? Ummm...sure if I was a 15 year old girl I'd think that...

There is some good cinematography but it's ruined by the "Jared Leto Joker"-esque Crow they give us. And just makes you disappointed he couldn't be depicted as his original comic look or the 1994 film version.

There is a fight sequence at the end, which saves the movie from being a 2/10. It's brutal, violent, cinematic and well executed. Despite some of the bad guys walking into melee range after shooting a guy who clearly isn't dying. But the scenes so cool I'm let it slide with brownie points.

Of course if you're going to have bad or mediocre plot, it can be saved by great cinematography and fantastic fight scenes. Now this film succeeds at this, but only does it for about twenty minutes worth....

That's not enough, if they wanted to do this, with this plot, they should of cut out 80% of that plot and just made this movie a 1hr 20 minuets of violence. Basically John Wick but with off brand Crow.

The problem is they didn't think this plot was bad...(Well that's not the only problem but you know what I mean.)

I had a feeling the film would be mediocre from the trailer, but I went in with an open mind hoping to be happily surprised. This wasn't even mediocre it was just a bad film.

This is the story of a relationship so powerful, so intense, that it brings a man back from the brink of death to revenge his fallen loved one. Yet, here, in this new iteration of the story the relationship between Eric and Shelly lacks so much chemistry and intensity that about halfway into the film I'd almost forgotten it happened.

The script is stilted and clichéd. The performances are wooden and feel massively dialled in. Most of the action is poorly choreographed and doesn't work well. On the plus side some of the effects, and occasional slices of action, do work decently, but that's about it.

I really like Bill Skarsgård, but I do not like this at all. The director has said it's not a remake, or a sequel, and that it he 'wanted the evolution of Eric to The Crow to be fresh but rooted in the graphic novel. Now, I haven't read the graphic novels, but I'm sure those that have will make their voices heard.

Overall? It's a lacklustre movie, with poorly written dialogue, uneasy performances and almost zero chemistry between two people who are supposed to have an incredible 'love eternal'. The saving grace is the soundtrack which does include some awesome music. 2/5...I'll never watch it again...

Everybody that's reviewing the movie poorly on here is doing it because it's an utter embarrassment to the original "the crow" content pieces.

I will try to be more original and tell you why it's bad without that, because this movie doesn't get any better if you look at it as a standalone piece of writing either

This movie was actually so cringe. It was difficult to watch. The female lead was painfully bad at acting. The antagonists were terribly dull. The main character's development was sloppy. The pacing of the movie was all over the place from the beginning to the end.

There was supposed to be emotional scenes in this movie but the audience was actually laughing at them. That's what this movie is. Laughable.

Horrible remake. I gave it 3 stars for Skarsgard's performance. I thought he did a good job of a pure but tortured soul. Nothing else redeeming in this movie. The director did a very poor job. He chose to concentrate on artsy film takes of graphic violence that left no room for the essence of the storyline. This director was way too in love with himself to get the story translated to the screen.

The original movie with Brandon Lee was before its time. It captured the story of pure love of good souls who are so wrongly violated that it needed to be avenged.

Save your money and watch the original which stands up to the trial of time. Just like all good movies.

The original was good but not brilliant. Then again, which movies are? That said, it deservedly became a cult classic.

It's one of those movies that are almost begging to be made, with a new spin, bigger budget, more character development, and with CGI and better special effects available, yes please!

Unfortunately, this reboot falls flat and is no way near as good as the original.

The director's character development seems to focus solely on the intensity of the love between a couple. However, there is no intensity but only spoilt, shallow, brooding, and unsympathetic characters who don't seem to know the actual meaning of love. So as to why Eric was sent back to avenge but not others I clearly don't know.

Then the director fills the rest of the film with uninteresting no-meat-on-the-bones characters and by-the-numbers, weak script..

At some point, I cynically wondered if the director was one of those who cut their teeth making music videos. It seems I was right.

You're left feeling disappointed and quite angry that they screwed this up.