The Crow: Salvation

2000 "For Vengeance, For Justice, For Love."
4.9| 1h42m| R| en
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Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to avenge the murder of his girlfriend, who he was wrongly accused of killing. But first he must uncover the truth about who really killed her.

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Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
sinceredrifter The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot. The crow cant be preppy and have short hair, who's ever idea it was to cast Eric Mabius is a complete idiot.
mattboy07 Look, I won't lie and say "The Crow: Salvation" is some sort of academy award winning feature. It is good, though.*Minor Spoiler Warnings* Alex Corvis is a young man who is now being executed for the murder of his girlfriend. He maintains his innocence, claiming instead that a man with a strange scar planted the evidence in his car and he never would have done such a thing. All seems sad and somber until a cut away during the execution shows that scarred-man taunting the now dying Alex. And so, the magical crow avatar resurrects the main character to exact revenge, unravel the mystery behind the events, and set things right. *End Spoilers*The hook is fairly intriguing the first time around. Sure, it's an old premise of a dead man coming back for revenge, but it is much better than the mishandled "City of Angels". It stays true to The Crow formula well enough but doesn't try to re-create the lightning in a bottle of the first film. Trying to stand on its own two legs seems unsteady at times, but still there are many things to enjoy.The acting is actually really enjoyable. The evil doers are sufficient and dark enough that you don't mind when they're systematically killed in a vindicated manner. Fred Ward plays the main villain and he's still superb, proving that once again he's highly under rated. The real shocker comes from Eric Mabius (who plays the main character Alex). He shows drive, emotion, depth, and even an character arc you wouldn't expect. He's an A-list actor in the B-list movie and it really shows that he outclasses his surroundings. Even Kirsten Dunst (pre-Spiderman) manages to put on some form of acting ability.The plot is somewhat disjointed and random. When Alex kicks into high gear and begins his bloody crusade, it's some great moments on film. Unfortunately, after he dispatches the first two villains, the pacing slows down, de-rails, and never really gets back on track. There's more action but it never really picks back up. Plot threads seem to trail off, become neglected, or resolve with little reason or rhyme. There's even an identity crisis plot twist that seems wholly unnecessary.The Crow: Salvation is a good movie for what it is. Don't go into the experience looking for some great caliber of drama and action. It has gratuitous stripper scenes, slightly cheesy gore, and some low budget moments that can't be ignored. Still, It's dark, visceral, satisfying, and well handled. It's better than the second (which truly was awful), features a great sound track, is different enough that you don't feel ripped off, and fun.8/10
Unbreakable27 I'm the biggest Brandon/Bruce Lee fan in the world but enough!!! People are going to always compare this movie to the first one and Eric Mabius to Brandon Lee. That's where I think this movie suffers.I think storyline-wise it would have been better of he hadn't have resurrected right after his execution. They should have left him dead for a while. When he came back it didn't really seem like all that much of a shock. The bad guys just thought they had botched the execution and mistakenly pronounced him dead. Maybe even have gone so far as to have him resurrect on the autopsy table, not from his grave because that would have been a direct copy of Crow number One.All in all a decent little flick but suffers from comparisons to its predecessors.
r-c-s this movie had actually good potential. Not Crow 1, but much better than Crow 2. Too bad they wasted the potential into clichés. Honestly, this movie is mostly a cut&paste from the first film: 1 the wild car chase 2 the main villain & his morbid female assistant 3 explosives galore 4 the sympathetic cop angle 5 and much more are just lifted from Crow 1 and transposed with as little originality as possible. There are interesting innovations: the sadistic taxonomist is one ( Fred Ward does a good job ); Mabius at times (at times only ) reaches sensibly above mediocrity with his performance; Kirsten Dunst does a very mediocre job: her character shifts opinion too easily, on both sides going overboard; the rest of characters are not worth talking about: mere background. The overall effect is nice (for what it is ), and I've seen this movie many times. SFX are good: nothing to write about in a book, but fit the bill. The plot is paper-thin, but a "Crow" movie isn't Othello to start with, and the makers seem not to take themselves as dealing with the next Ben Hur, so this lack of pretentiousness is a plus.