The Crow (1994)
Country: US
Technical: col 102m
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, David Patrick Kelly
Synopsis:
A rock star is murdered along with his fiancée during a night of criminal lawlessness that sees the city lit up by fires. One year later, a crow helps him to rise up and wreak revenge on his attackers.
Review:
Unbelievably noisy, barely intelligible comic strip nonsense that was hindered by the untimely demise of its star, whose performance had to be 'manipulated' to complete the film. This adds some metacinematic interest to a tale of resurrection and living death, whose message may be reduced to the trite: 'true love never dies', as intoned by the child narrator, one of many character ciphers in the picture. Proyas can be seen with hindsight to be trying out various elements of his Dark City, and Lee's makeup and performance foreshadow those of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, similarly associated with that actor's own premature death one film later.
Country: US
Technical: col 102m
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, David Patrick Kelly
Synopsis:
A rock star is murdered along with his fiancée during a night of criminal lawlessness that sees the city lit up by fires. One year later, a crow helps him to rise up and wreak revenge on his attackers.
Review:
Unbelievably noisy, barely intelligible comic strip nonsense that was hindered by the untimely demise of its star, whose performance had to be 'manipulated' to complete the film. This adds some metacinematic interest to a tale of resurrection and living death, whose message may be reduced to the trite: 'true love never dies', as intoned by the child narrator, one of many character ciphers in the picture. Proyas can be seen with hindsight to be trying out various elements of his Dark City, and Lee's makeup and performance foreshadow those of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, similarly associated with that actor's own premature death one film later.
Country: US
Technical: col 102m
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, David Patrick Kelly
Synopsis:
A rock star is murdered along with his fiancée during a night of criminal lawlessness that sees the city lit up by fires. One year later, a crow helps him to rise up and wreak revenge on his attackers.
Review:
Unbelievably noisy, barely intelligible comic strip nonsense that was hindered by the untimely demise of its star, whose performance had to be 'manipulated' to complete the film. This adds some metacinematic interest to a tale of resurrection and living death, whose message may be reduced to the trite: 'true love never dies', as intoned by the child narrator, one of many character ciphers in the picture. Proyas can be seen with hindsight to be trying out various elements of his Dark City, and Lee's makeup and performance foreshadow those of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, similarly associated with that actor's own premature death one film later.