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The Crow: City of Angels

The Crow: City of Angels (1996)

August. 29,1996
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4.6
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R
| Fantasy Action Thriller

After Ashe and his little son are murdered violently for no reason by Judah's men, he returns from the dead to take revenge. One after one, Judah's people face the power of the dark angel. The second film based on James O'Barr's cult comic.

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LutherBurrell
1996/08/29

The first Crow film was a brilliant and Gothic re-visioning of a graphic Novel. Eric Draven was played by Brandon Lee who notoriously died during the making of the film. I loved the original. I watched this one hoping that it could at least hold a candle to the original. In the long run it's a totally different movie to the first. Yes this movie is still dark and gritty as the original but it's also has different feeling. The characters are different as well as the story line. This movie doesn't follow Draven. It follows a different character. You will definitely enjoy it more when you stop thinking of it as a sequel. It is it's own movie. Once you get that stuck in your head you'll find it much more enjoyable. For one thing this about revenge of a sons death. Not a girlfriend. I think this movie is a great movie and perfect for Halloween.

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Python Hyena
1996/08/30

The Crow: City of Angels (1996): Dir: Tim Pope / Cast: Vincent Perez, Mia Kershner, Iggy Pop, Thomas Jane, Vincent Castellanos: Thankless chunk of sewage that delivers nothing but visual effects. We never learn anything of this city of angels but it's probably just as well. Vincent Perez steps in replacing Brandon Lee who died while filmmaking the original. In that film a young man is killed by a gang and the revenge he enacts when a crow becomes his vision. In this sequel the same crap happens again and he kills the guilty one by one. Director Tim Pope allows everything to get away on him. Instead of a man and wife, it is a father and son who witness a murder and are erased for it. He kills them one by one and we don't give a rat's ass. Perez is not doing anyone any favors by appearing in this mess and Mia Kershner delights in sharing the overacting credit. Also wasting our time are singing sensation Iggy Pop, looking less than sensational here, and Thomas Jane who looks even less sensational. This junk exist only because the first Halloween act of lunacy made money. But let it be known that the first film is basically Death Wish in costume. For better use of your time, listen to any number of Iggy Pop songs. This pathetic sequel should be placed in a trash bag and burned along with the other garbage that emerged from Hollywood this year. Score: 1 / 10

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gretel_1678
1996/08/31

The first Crow... yeah, it's a good movie. I love it. Brandon Lee died, yeah, that sucks. If you watch both CoA and The Crow, you will know the big difference between these two movies. In the first one, you feel sorry for Eric Draven, yes. But there is absolutely NO substance, no personality(talking about Eric before he died, not the dead/zombie Eric), no nothing. It was his fiancée the one with personality. In the second film, not only is the ''son'' thing a lot more deep, but this guy actually has layers, things about him to discover and learn, you can see him torn away between the two worlds. In the first one, you don't even see Eric having a relationship with Sarah, he kinda just wanted his revenge and to go back to his dead girlfriend.Brandon Lee was brilliant as The Crow, but he lacked personality. Vincent Perez brought a lot of beauty to his character, he simply cannot fill the shoes of a good, beloved actor who died in the making of The Crow, because, well... how can you fill the shoes of this situation in particular?

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adrianogt4
1996/09/01

This movie is complex and slow and it is too much similar to the first one as the plot, a lot of scenes seem to be like copied from the first movie and pasted here. Same for the bad characters, they are too similar to the first one. One example could be Top Dollar and Judah, they are too similar in their conduct and in both the movies they immediately realize that; if they kill the crow, the human crow loses all his power. They already used it in the first Crow, it is not good to repeat such an important detail. But the thing that I don't like is the fight with Judah, i mean he is the evil character, one of the most important character in the movie and you wait for the fight from the first scene and they cannot do a thing like this, he had more difficulty to kill the gang's members. This seems to be something close quickly, you lose the movie's heart, that episode has been the main factor of my decision to the 5 to this film. Maybe if they did this scene better it could be a good sequel. I think this is the reason why everybody knows the first Crow with Brandon Lee but a few know about its sequels.

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