I decided to revisit this film tonight. I remember the excitement for it and how my friends and I showed up at the theater opening night to just find disappointment. It is a pretty film, very dark and with a decent story and characters, but we judged it very hard, because it wasn't what we felt we were promised. Over the years, I have come back to this movie a few times and each time, I liked it s bit more.

Being so removed from the time it was released, it has aged in some strange way, or maybe I have, to distinguish itself from the first and as its own film.

With that, I really, kind of, like it.

If you can drop the whole "crow" tie to the original, yo may find a underrated film that is far better than memory let's you believe.

As far l could read some comments from IMDB's users reviewers, the Crow's sequel they love or hate, l'll stay in the middle 7 out 10 is suitable enough according what l did watch last week, the director had a satisfactory outcome using a sepia green color in the framework, giving a dark and scary atmosphere to the picture, the leading role played by Vincent Perez is a low pattern as your forerunner, the remaining cast is quite acceptable, barring Iggy Pop in another outstanding and usually performance, anyway unless otherwise agreed is my final opinion!!!

Resume:

First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

I adore the original film that starred Brandon Lee as the avenging angel brought back from the dead. Now a sequel was probably inevitable, and I remember being largely disappointed by it with its wearily cut-up story, dour performances and diluted action. Well nothing has changed the second time around. Again I can't knock that killer hard-rock / industrial sounding soundtrack, haunting score and the dark, Gothic embellishment creating an atmospherically catastrophe post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. It's dirty, smoggy and jarringly bleak. Jean Yves Escoffier's cinematography lenses it with the right free-spirited. However there's nothing overly memorable, or even powerfully gripping to draw any real emotion and interest form the suffocatingly drab and unimaginative narrative. By following the same patterns of the original's tragedy, it doesn't lay any new groundwork. It was a tediously repetitive mess that seemed more fantasy-based and conjures up a script that's weakly penned. Vincent Perez's avenging soul is unconvincingly void in a tortured performance, which doesn't create much heart-ache or grace. There's no imprint, or witty charisma that Lee evoked. Honestly I didn't feel anything. Richard Brooks flimsily strolls by with no impressionable stance as the head villain. Mia Kirshner gives a sound performance and Iggy Pop delightfully chews up the scenery to spit it out. Director Tim Pope can formulate some flourishing visuals and lasting poses, but when it came to setting everything in motion. Flat and unexciting comes to mind. His action set-pieces lacked zest and seemed to plod like they're sliced up music video clips. Never did it infuse any real sense of energy, thrills and urgency. In the end it feels just like a cheap, quick and empty rehash.