Brandon Lee could have been great. He had charisma, acting talent and the physical attributes to have been an action star that would have cemented the legacy started by his father. His untimely death during filming cast a shadow over a film that should have led to brighter and bigger things.
Gothic horror, supernatural revenge flick or B-movie classic? Probably all of them. A film that tells the story of a murdered rock musician and his fiance that returns from the dead to avenge their deaths, this doffs it's hat to both Tim Burton and Ridley Scott. Stylized violence galore and with a penchant for exotic death scenes this was a movie with a dark edge and stunning visuals. Action…

They're all dead. They just don't know it yet.
-Eric Draven

The Crow is not an easy film to love and defend as great. Not because there's anything wrong with it, but because of the douchebags that praise the film for all the wrong reasons. They are the type of people that cause others to hate this film. They're also the type of people that make others think twice about praising the film in public for fear of being grouped in with them.

I'm talking about those Emo bastards that "love" the film because the character of Eric Draven is SO relatable to them. He witnesses his fiancée being gang raped, beaten to death and then he himself gets shot…

It is perhaps through the blue tinted round sunglasses of my mid ninties youth that I review this film and I shall try to keep gushing praise to minimum.
I adore this film, it has and continues to have a major effect on my movie life and during my formative college years a major effect on my music and clothing tastes. I never looked like Brandon Lee but that never stopped me from trying. Ahh the folly's of youth.
The Crow is(for those few that don't know) a gothic fairy tale western of love, death and revenge set against the backdrop of inner city deppression and organized crime.
Eric Draven brought back from the dead by a crow, sets about…

It's hard to admit to myself that I like a movie that appeals to a lot of very insufferable people - I'm not talking about everyone who likes The Crow, just people who take it way too seriously. It's one of those movies like Highlander or the Matrix trilogy where a subset of the fanbase internalizes its pulpy, not entirely coherent mythology in a very extreme way that is really about self-mythologizing their own angst. I'm not judging, I'm just saying that I'd bet a hundred bucks that if I were to search for "The Crow tribute" on YouTube right now, I'd hear a lot of Evanescence.

At the same time, I'm in no position to judge, because as silly…

Brandon Lee could have been great. He had charisma, acting talent and the physical attributes to have been an action star that would have cemented the legacy started by his father. His untimely death during filming cast a shadow over a film that should have led to brighter and bigger things.
Gothic horror, supernatural revenge flick or B-movie classic? Probably all of them. A film that tells the story of a murdered rock musician and his fiance that returns from the dead to avenge their deaths, this doffs it's hat to both Tim Burton and Ridley Scott. Stylized violence galore and with a penchant for exotic death scenes this was a movie with a dark edge and stunning visuals. Action…

*Part of the June 100 Challenge*

More often than not, movies that value style over substance ultimately fail. Alex Proyas's "The Crow" is the refreshingly rare exception to the rule. Here, like "Sin City" and "300" before it, the style is the substance. The story is quite simple. Eric Daven (Brandon Lee) returns from the dead to avenge the rape and murder of his wife. "The Crow" is essentially a series of murders carried out by the Crow with little time spent on much else beyond the most basic level of characterization.

Stylistic flourishes not withstanding, the film's success rests entirely on the shoulders of Lee's performance. Lee gives an excellent performance that goes beyond a typical action hero persona,…