The Crow - Salvation (Dimension Collector's Series)
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Movie Reviews of The Crow - Salvation (Dimension Collector's Series)
Movie Review: The 3rd
Summary: 4 Stars
Like I said in my Crow Wicked Prayer review (Check that out) This film and City Of Angels were adds of honour to the first Crow film (Although the fourth one went right down the drain and dishonoured the first one) The Crow: Salvation really brings everything together. Eric Mabius did great, Kirsten Dunst was good too. But, the music could've been a leetle better. The rock music lacks dark (In my opinion) 'After The Flesh' was a very good dark-rock-theme (played while the big shoot-out at Top Dollar's in Crow 1)
Of course this movie or City Of Angels doesn't surpass the first Crow film. Nothing ever will.
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The Future Critic (Although not confirmed yet, my mom and dad want me to be a lawyer),
Penny
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ERIC DRAVEN: Your job will be to tell them, death is coming for them.... Tonight.
Movie Review: This is a travesty to The Crow!
Summary: 1 Stars
As many people, I reluctantly picked this up- but did only because of the gorgeous Kirsten Dunst. From the opening scene, I could see that I made a mistake.
This movie isn't worth 50 cents, let alone $10. I literally threw this movie away after I watched it. I have never done that before, but this movie was all over the place. People who say that it was "darker" and "grittier" can go f@ck yourself! Maybe for a TV movie it was dark and gritty. For my home video collection I expect more.
The "acting" lineup was laughable. The only saving grace was Kirsten, but to be honest she wasn't exactly stealing the show. The story was laughable and the new Crow was a joke. He was so unconvincing in his role that I seriously laughed out loud several times. I cannot express in words my disgust with what became of this franchise.
The original Crow is one of the best movies ever made. I've owned 3 copies of it and I'd buy 3 more. I thought it couldn't get any worse than City of Angels, but I was soooooo wrong. Avoid this movie like the plague.
Movie Review: Criminally Underrated!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was (and still am) a big fan of the original "The Crow," but since it's sequel "The Crow: City Of Angels" failed to impress me, I never bothered with this installment, "The Crow: Salvation." However, I recently saw this available for purchase at a dirt cheap price, and seeing the lovely Kirsten Dunst on the cover (who I'll watch in anything), I figured what better time than now. Having now seen it, I can tell you that I made a mistake in ever passing it by. "Salvation" gets it right. Whereas the previous movie was a redundant remake of the original, this installment goes a bit darker and bit edgier. One thing's for sure, it's a lot meaner, even going further than the original did at times. The first 10 minutes alone contain so much dramatic impact that it could be a movie in itself. Right from the get-go, this movie sucks you in and grabs your attention. Without hardly any exposition, we manage to make an emotional connection and an investment in our main character, Alex Corvis (played by Eric Mabius).
Alex has just been wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, the love of his life. Since this is a "Crow" movie, Alex gets to come back from the dead and find out who killed her, and why. With a little help from his good-guy lawyer (the only person who believed him all along) and the sister (played by Dunst) of his girlfriend, he tracks down the people involved in the murder, in an effort to find the one responsible. It plays out in typical fashion really. I'm not gonna say the movie is unpredictable. Quite the opposite. But the difference here is how intense the situation is. The actors all portray their characters very effectively and make us love them and hate them, just as much as we should. The story is engrossing, and moves along quite swiftly. The directing style is definitely the major thing that seperates this movie from it's predecessors. It's not as gritty of a film. It doesn't have the "noir" look that they had. Instead, it has a more David Fincher-esque style to it. A style that many people associate with MTV and music videos. Even still, it works in the movie's favor, making the experience (although the story may be familiar) feel like something a little more fresh. The only complaint I find in this movie is the way Alex dispatches the people responsible for his girlfriend's death. The deaths should have been a little more cathartic than they were. The average death in this movie involves a gun. Come on, these people are scum! They've earned bigger deaths than that...
"The Crow: Salvation" had me satisfied on all fronts. It was quick moving, entertaining, and very engrossing. It's a shame it went direct to video -- due to poor test screenings. Who the Hell attended these screenings? It's hardly a shallow movie, and it's very well made and professional looking. And to think, I almost never saw it! Just because "other people" (i.e. the "test screening" crowd and critcs) decided it was a bad film. Don't let that deter you from watching this movie. It's the perfect "Crow" sequel.
Movie Review: THIRD FLIGHT FOR THE CROW ... AND SOMETHING NEW HAS BEEN ADDED!
Summary: 4 Stars
If someone has to list the films of THE CROW in order of ... let's call it "palatability", I would definitely have to put THE CROW: SALVATION as #2 right behind the original film.
There are now four films in THE CROW series and each one brings something different to THE CROW legend. Here, Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius in a tour-de-force of underplayed acting, which really works here) is legally executed in the electric chair after being framed, tried and sentenced for the murder of his love Lauren (usually, the protagonist is murdered right alongside and with the person he loves most), and after being resurrected the traditional facepaint is replaced by his own scarred skin from his electrocution. Also, in this film Corvis must convince Erin (Kirsten Dunst), the sister of his lost love, of his innocence; previously, The Crow has found willing female allies (the young Sarah in THE CROW and the adult Sarah in THE CROW: CITY OF ANGELS) right from the beginning. THE CROW: SALVATION retains the darkness of the original film, but adds more than just a taste of corruption that the previous two films didn't have (the villains in those two were pure evil, whereas The Crow's victims here hide their evil under the guise of enforcers of the law/justice), and the main villain, (Fred Ward in a marvelously vicious portrayal) whom we don't meet until about one-third to halfway through the film, is probably the most monstrous of all THE CROW villains (without giving anything away, the scene in which the main villain gets his comeuppance is one of the most gripping moments from ANY of THE CROW films, and one which I keep replaying every time I watch this film!).
I have read a few reviews of this film here in AMAZON.COM in which people have complained about how it is that the villains in each film know the secret of The Crow; I answer them: unless the forces of evil know The Crow's weakness and are able to exploit it somehow, the hero loses his complexity and becomes a two-dimensional unstoppable killing machine like Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees; without some vulnerability, The Crow has no depth to him. Many people also put this film down for being released direct-to-video rather than commercially, but that should not matter; it certainly doesn't detract from THE CROW: SALVATION's being a worthy addition to the franchise.
Movie Review: One Dangerous Bird!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, this wasn't a bad movie. Despite the fact that, the storyline does get a mixed up. This was a great movie. Eric Mabius does make a very good crow!!! Also, Kirsten Dunst was really good in this film too. So check it out!!!!