Not like the Original but a very good sequel. 7/10 The Crow: City of Angels is from1996, directed by Tim Pope and written by David S. Goyer (Blade, Nolan's Batman universe, Dark City, Hellraiser). It is the sequel to the 1994 film The Crow and the second installment in The Crow film series.
One particular new strain of popular cinema that came up around this time was what was called, mostly derisively and dismissively, the MTV movie. In other words, films influenced heavily by rock video, and often made by people from that milieu. There are hundreds of fascinating MTV movies from the '80s, including Prince's magnificent Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984) and John Hughes' delightfully inventive Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).
Then, in the '90s, along came the Crow movies. Their aesthetic was not blindingly new - in fact, to me, the jarring, frenetic, MTV style was even a bit warm and cosy. But the second Crow movie is still a challenge, or more simply, an affront, to most film reviewers - not only because of its blaring, full-on MTV vibe, but also because of its peculiar (in all senses) narrative form.
In The Crow: City of Angels, the hero, Ashe Corven (Vincent Pérez), gets to do the same to the gang of decadent street toughs who murdered his son.
As in the original Crow film, this hero is a phantom avenger, a reincarnated creature who can withstand any bullet, flame or spike, and just get up off the floor and keep murdering. He is a mean, sadistic creature. I would be tempted to call Ashe an anti-hero, if I thought the film and its (mainly) music video director Tim Pope entertained the slightest moral qualm about his actions.
The Crow: City of Angels gave me the ephemeral frisson of that heroically terrifying feeling. In its own stuttering, strangled, necessarily compromised voice, it's struggling to describe a New World.
A world that is in decline and the film shows it to the fullest.
Definitely more gothic than the first and you don't miss the hard images
In the pluses of the film, well-known names appear such as Iggy Pop, Thomas Jane, Ian Dury, Vincent Castellanos, the beautiful Mia Kirshner in the role of Sarah from the first part & of course Vincent Perez in the role of the Crow, which certainly does not touch the awesome performance of the blessed Brandon Lee, but it's not bad.
Skip the Haters and give a chance to the sequel.
A nice movie.