Review of The Crow: City of Angels (1996) by Glenn C — 14 May 2012

I'm about to open the floodgates but I'm wearing a life-jacket and am ready for the surge... I don't really need to review Alex Proyas' The Crow starring Brandon Lee. It's a work of art, a modern masterpiece and a fucking awesome movie.

.. and so I'll jump straight to The Crow: City Of Angels. On the heels of such a critically acclaimed film, it was a brave thing to tempt fate twice. City Of Angels was not received well and was harshly judged.

I never understood the hate... where the first film was a gothic horror, COA was a grunge horror. It's aesthetically different and well made. Director Tim Pop has a long history of stylised music videos, having directed most of The Cure's clips and he brings a new vision to the franchise that separates itself from what people expected and perhaps that was the movie's fault.

David Goyer (Batman Begins) wrote the screenplay and he also envisioned something dirtier and more insipid. Now that 26 years have past, the movie has found itself a cult following. Time has served it well and it's a decent film unto itself.