The Crow - Wicked Prayer | Yuji Okumoto, Marcus Chong

The Crow - Wicked Prayer | Yuji Okumoto, Marcus Chong | three stars is a pretty fair rating for this film

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	The Crow - Wicked Prayer Yuji Okumoto, Marcus Chong Dimension, 2005 average customer review:based on 100 reviews view larger image
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Classic Crow

This film, of all the sequels, matches the original the most. Beautiful story, and performances par excellance from Edward Furlong and David Boreanaz (they finally prove that they're not just a kid carried around by a Terminator and a tormented vampire with a soul).

Perhaps the movie's story doesn't directly coicide with the book, but I can forgive that, I'm not that much of a purist. Heck, look at the Brandon Lee film and compare it to the graphic novel! They only share a passing semblance with each other.

The story of Jimmy Cuervo and Lily Ignites-The-Dawn is poignant, a Romeo and Juliet romance. Lily fights to prove to everyone that Jimmy is a truly good person at heart, despite a terrible mistake he made in the past; all Jimmy wants is Lily, and to have people just leave him alone.

Of course, neither Jimmy or Lily get their wish. Just before they can run away to get married and live in peace, Luc Crash pops into their lives, along with his girlfriend Lola, and companions Pestilence, Famine, and War. Needless to say, Crash himself is Death. Jimmy and Crash used to be friends, in high school and in jail. Crash has a bad repayment of friendship in mind: killing Lily and Jimmy, then allowing his girlfriend to cast dark magic that will open a door to the underworld and allow the Darkest Fallen back into the world.

When the Crow arrives to help Jimmy put the wrong back to right, the story evolves to the darkly beautiful world of raging vengeance. Every time another of the "Four Horsemen" fall, I feel the need to roar my approval aloud. These are people who deserve their deaths, and Jimmy deals that death with all of the Crow's unique mix of fury, sorrow and madness. Its climactic ending with the powers of darkness battling the power of the Crow is a truly inspired piece of filmmaking.

Lily's brother: "One thing the town agrees on, we all hate you, Jimmy."
Jimmy: "Well, damn, I gotta fire my publicist!"

I probably misquoted that a bit, but it proves that there's still an element of dark, bitter humor that makes a person smirk despite themselves.

I love this movie and will always treasure it as one of the finest in my DVD library.

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three stars is a pretty fair rating for this film

I'm a big David Boreanaz fan and that's how I came to known the Crow films in the first place. So basically I haven't seen the original one so I'm only basing the ratings on my impression, as someone who saw this as a film by itself, not comparing it to the original film, which, from watching this one, I'm taking an interest.

The film is really, for a lack of a better word- so so. All the actors are fine, they are not great, but they all pulled off a decent performance. I felt David Boreanaz is a miscast though, I like it that he's in the film ('cause I'm a fan, duh) but I truly felt the film is making him living too much in the shadow of Angelus, which he did a brilliant performance in the TV series Angel. I do believe that David can pull off a bad guy who isn't Angelus but as Crash/Satan/death, the sadism is RIGHT THERE, so he's pretty much like Angelus but not as great 'cause there are no brlliant lines that makes your hair stand up like Angelus' lines

For all those people who hate Edward Furlong, can I juss say ?! I felt he did a great job pulling off The Crow with that full of confusion, full of hatred, full of despair feelings all at the same time. To be honest, if I had to pick a favorite performance from the film, I think I would pick him (that is, after I overcome the biase over David hehe- hey at least I'm honest about it)

Tere Raid is okay, not that great, she has too much of that American Pie on her, I don't think she's fitting playing an evil girl, I don't feel the evil in her, but she did pull off the slut pretty well- what can I say, that's another American Pie trait anyways.

the movie I felt is not exciting enough, it's half gore and half Constantine elemento. But The Crow is pretty cool, but then again I haven't seen the first one, but I'm looking forward to it.

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