Reviews

To read some buzz on The Crow: Salvation at Cinescape.com, go here


To get info on The Crow: Salvation at DarkHorizons.com, go here


To read a review of the new The Crow: Salvation at DarkHorizons.com, go here

WARNING!!!: includes minor spoilers

To get info on The Crow: Salvation soundtrack at Soundtrack.net, go here


To get info on The Crow: Salvation soundtrack at CDnow.com, go here


To get info on The Crow: Salvation score at CDnow.com, go here

Hello kiddies! Gothic Crow here. I am here to tell you all about The Crow: Salvation. You're probably all asking the same question I did: how is it compared to the other ones?

Well, obviously we know that nothing can live up to Bandon Lee's The Crow. But I must say that Salvation had more of a plot and better acting than Angels. Eric was amazing (and not just easy on the eyes), and the bad guys were better actors than the goons in the second one, especially Fred Ward--hats off to you buddy. Dunst's performance was weak in some areas, but she's believable.

As the series grows and more movies are added to it, I think they start pulling away from the characters. Here, allow me to explain. I'm somewhat of an actor and I've done professional theater acting before, and one thing they hammer into you over and over again is that you must study the character, become close with it, research if you have to, etc. In the movies after the original, the story seems to pull away from the characters, good and bad. In The Crow, we all loved Eric Draven and felt close to him through out the whole movie. Lee made the character very interesting, not just a walking zombie. He made Draven funny, loving, and also psychotic; you could feel his suffering.

Same thing with the bad guys. Tin Tin (my fave), T-Bird, Skank, Funboy, and Top Dollar were the scum of the earth, you hated and loathed their existence...and yet you loved them too because they were just so good at what they did. I love Tin Tin because of his manner, he was funny, and he was interesting to watch. In Angels, you didn't really feel too much for Ashe and his killers. Ashe was a crazed screaming lunatic (which you couldn't understand a word he said), and the villains were coked-out freaks with no real purpose. The bad cops in Salvation aren't characterized very well, but at least they're better actors.

In Salvation, Mabius somewhat takes it back to the beginning, the way Lee performed it. Because Alex is 21-years old, Mabius plays some scenes like a kid given a gift that he's going to abuse, the way most kids do when given any kind of power. Alex doesn't abuse it, but he finds out what he's capable of, so he of course runs with the idea and has fun with it. He also adds the humor and pain of the character that seemed to have gotten lost in the second installation of the series. His purpose is defined much better, so are the emotions, and he finds more interesting ways to kill people than Ashe did in Angels.

Now, enough of the characterization analysis and psychology of the movies. You want the goods on the movie itself don't you. Well, I'll let you know now that you don't have to worry about spoilers--cause I ain't telling you details. ;)

OK, here's the basics. Alexander Frederc Corvis (Eric Mabius) has been in prison for 3 years for the murder of his girlfriend, Lauren Randall (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). He is to be sent to the electric chair on his 21st birthday. He maintains his innocence until the end, claiming that a man with a scar set him up and planted the murder weapon, a 6-inch knife, in his car. But the eyewitness and four cops testified against him and Alex gets the death sentence.

At the execution are the dirty cops, and Lauren's sister and father (Kirsten Dunst, and William Atherton--the guy that played the sleezy reporter in the Die Hard movies). When he is being electrocuted, he sees the man with a scar on his left arm, but not his face. So when he comes back, he obviously is trying to hunt him down. He finds the witness at his trial, Tommy Leonard (David Stevens), then Erin, and the cops.

That is all I can tell you right now really, simply because the plot is very complicated and interesting with many twists, and any more detail could give away too much about characters gone unmentioned here.


Please check out the cast list in the Crow: Salvation section
for new information and pictures.