Suffice to say, when people think of the moribund, brooding Eric Draven, they think of Brandon Lee, and this sequel isn't going to change that one iota.
The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:4
Rotten:27
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: The Crow: City of Angels is a sloppy pretender that captures neither the mood nor energy of the original.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: This sequel to the 1994 hit movie centers on Ashe, who, along with his son, is brutally murdered on the streets of Los Angeles. But like Eric Draven in the first film, Ashe is resurrected, and... This sequel to the 1994 hit movie centers on Ashe, who, along with his son, is brutally murdered on the streets of Los Angeles. But like Eric Draven in the first film, Ashe is resurrected, and begins wandering the streets of a post-apocalyptic L.A. Aided and protected by a magical, mystical crow, Ashe sets out to get revenge on those who killed him and his child. [More]
Starring: Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Iggy Pop, Thomas Jane
Starring: Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Iggy Pop, Thomas Jane, Richard Brooks
Director: Tim Pope
Director: Tim Pope
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Reviews for The Crow: City of Angels
Despite poetic overtones, this film is a hack job--an overlit, underdirected, barely scripted longform music video celebrating violence and bastard amber gel.
More than anything I've seen from Hollywood lately, City of Angels smacks baldly of product -- it's a movie with a lousy script but a great look.
Substitutes brutal violence and gore for character development, probably hoping audiences won't notice what a confusing nightmare this whole mess really is.
Worst of the Crow franchise, which should have ended with Brandon Lee and the entertaining first film.
What really stymies this sequel is the lack of the melancholic air of loss and mourning that bolstered the cartoon histrionics of the original.
This is a terrific debut for Pope, and City of Angels is the perfect antidote to the increasingly fluffy Batman films.
It verges on the misanthropic and necrophiliac; more in love with the absence of characters, their demise, than with flesh and blood.
The city of overacting, the city of bad writing and the city of truly dreadful sequels.
Looks pretty, but bad scripting makes this an incoherent sequel to the goth classic/
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