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Genres:
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Action /
Crime /
Fantasy /
Romance /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Alex Proyas
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Actors:
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Michael Wincott,
Brandon Lee,
Angel David,
Laurence Mason,
Rochelle Davis,
Sofia Shinas,
Ernie Hudson,
Ling Bai,
Anna Levine,
David Patrick Kelly,
Michael Massee,
Tony Todd,
Jon Polito,
Bill Raymond,
Marco Rodríguez
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Duration:
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102 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)130.5
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Plot Summary:
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A under age rock musician who was brutally murdered a year earlier is resurrected as a vengeful superhero in this fashionable noir thriller. Out to avenge his and his fiancee's killings not later than destroying the city's atrocious violation lord, the Crow becomes a bar of hope for the see while battling his own inner demons. Based on James O'Barr's dark comic laws series, this film features Brandon Lee's ultimate performance.
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Crow, The
This famously tragic comic book adaptation, whose lead actor Brandon Lee died on set, is also noteworthy for its darkly atmospheric music and visuals and some spectacular martial arts set pieces
Relentlessly dark, this action/horror flick (faithfully adapted from James O'Barr's comic books) is probably best known for the accidental on-set killing of its star, Brandon Lee (whose father Bruce also died tragically young).
Indeed, the shadow of Brandon's death looms large over the movie, not least because he plays an aspiring rock star who, having been murdered along with his girlfriend, returns to exact revenge on their depraved killers. On a more technical note, there are also a lot of back-of-the-head shots, obviously filmed after Lee's death.
Still, i...
Is that gasoline I smell ?
Although Brandon Lee did not have many films to his credit, this one turned him into a legend.
Shelly and Eric were very much in love. But no one gets married on Halloween, not in Detroit. Shelly is raped and beaten by city boss Top Dollar's thugs, only to die 30 hours later in a hospital. Eric is shot and pushed out a window. A year later death is no longer what it was as Eric Draven, accompanied by a Crow and gifted with new powers and a world of grief and pain, is brought back to life to avenge his love's death.
Director Alex Proyas claims he has never seen a sequel to his film on the basis that no one could do justice to the main character like Brandon Lee... I agree with him. Lee's performance as the vengeful soul is one of the greatest I have ever seen on fi...
Crow, The
"...[A] resplendent fever vision of a movie....Lee is vivid on all counts in a ending performance that brims over with athleticism and ardor..."
Crow, The
Lee died making this supernatural rock-star revenge flicks, and, after the lawsuits, recriminations and deployment...
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