The Crow (Miramax/Dimension Collector's Series)

This is one of my all time favorite DVD's and I was so fortunate to find it available on Amazon at an amazing price. It is now safely in my collection where I will watch it over and over again.

Director Alex Proyas' American film debut and Brandon Lee's final performance before his untimely death The Crow sours on black wings straight out of the darkest portions of the imagination. A dark, visually luscious and captivating tale The Crow (Based on the graphic novel and comics by James O'Barr) truly is a sight to behold. Proyas demonstrates his artistic abilities in creating films with incredibly dark and eye popping set designs which he'd later use to create a perfect Film Noir atmosphere for his vastly underrated masterpiece Dark City (1998). It is a story of live, death and most certainly revenge.

Eric Draven, a rock guitarist and his fiancée are brutally murdered on October 30th, and a year later Eric rises from the grave under the guidance of a mystic crow which follows him, or leads the way, helping him on his quest for vengeance. Using make-up and articles of clothing leftover from his days as a heavy metal band he soon enters the city, a new man so to speak, his look being one that helped inspire The Joker in The Dark Knight.

One by one he takes down the four gang members who murdered him, leaving behind the outline of a crow wherever it was he they were killed, his methods often brutal and without remorse, or the slightest sign of pity, because why should those who killed him receive less than the worst he can offer? Eventually his vendetta leads him to the criminals' deranged boss and his possibly even more psychotic half-sister. The two begin face off towards the end, when Draven crashes a little baddie get together as the boss was preparing to cause some mayhem, because nothing brings more of a smile to his face then a little chaos and anarchy. Once his entire group is taken down by the black clad Draven, he flees determined to kill the reborn individual leading to the film's last confrontation.

Brandon Lee gives an amazing performance, which only makes his loss during this film all the sadder. This film proves that he could have surpassed his father (Bruce Lee), because The Crow proves Brandon is the better actor, and it is a shame that will never see where this film would've taken him if he were alive today.

Alex Proyas as stated before proves he is one of the most unique and talented filmmakers in the business, though his style may not suit mainstream or the average Joe's likes it's still something to behold, because the only other director I've seen close to Proyas' level of craftsmanship when it comes to this style of art is the more universally recognized Tim Burton.
The movie is short, at around ninety minutes, but all it is too me is short, sweet and to the point and couldn't be better without dragging on.

I give The Crow 5 out of five stars for outstanding visuals, story and for the sensational performance by Brandon Lee.

This was a really good movie. As always, the product from Amazon was excellent

There was the Crow comic book, and there is this movie.
the orignal comic and this movie are by far the best versions of The Crow.

after this movie were several movie and comic sequils, a tv series that remade the story, and a comic series that did the same thing.

NONE of these were in any way interesting.

this IS the BEST version of the Crow. just as the orignal comic is the best of the comics.
the rest is garbage.

there have been other actors cast in the roll and one even playing the same charture of Eric Draven.

frankly I think that is a diservice to the memory of Brandon Lee
to recast his role and have someone else do it.

lee is the ONLY actor who does it well.

and it is not only lee who plays his part so well.
there is
Michael Wincott
who is excelent as the villen, Top Doller, he steals all his sceans.

the fact is becaus of lee's tragic death, on the set of this very movie, some sceans were shot with a stunt double.
and yet Lee is still very much a large part in the movie with several sceans.

this movie is about the dead coming back to life.
and that is very much punchuated by having Lee brought back to life in this movie.

so this movie is the only one that is need for a collention.

the rest are not worth the price of admission.

the story is of Eric Draven who is killed along with his girl friend. some time later Draven is back to take revenge against the muggers who killed him. he faces Top Doller in a final battle and gains peace in the end.

this movie is about reserection, revenge, atonment, and redemption.

again with the movie having lee it is the theme of the dead returning.

one of my favorite sceans is when one of the muggers is about to hurt Draven's girl friend and he quotes from some book about the Devil fearing good, and the mugger only mocks that. he mocks the power of good. but then Draven straps him to his own car with a bomb. and the mugger then sees the 'awful power' of goodness. I rather like that.

this is one of the best movies ever made.
defitly a great 'superhero' movie.

and again.
the best version of the Crow story Ive ever seen.

R.I.P. Brandon.
I loved this movie when it came out. I think I saw it five (not kidding) times at the theater.
Heartbreaking watching this now, especially the scene where everything slows down when the trick or treaters are running by and Brandon's laughing.
What a horrid tragic ending to a career that was just starting to take off.
A great movie and everyone owes it to themselves to at least rent this movie.
Not a good movie for kids, but if you don't know who Brandon Lee was, this is a great place to see him shine.