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From my review of The Crow: Salvation on Letterboxd:
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The idea behind The Crow is compelling. Having not read the comics, my exposure to the IP is with the movies. One thing does not make sense to me. Why do each of the characters need to have their face painted up in a way? It made sense with Eric Draven. It made less sense with Ashe. Now with The Crow: Salvation, it crosses over to the realm of comical.
For those lucky enough not to have seen this one, The Crow: Salvation focuses on Alex Corvis, a 21-year old inmate on death row. He’s electrocuted for murdering his girlfriend, but a crow resurrects him so he can investigate the crooked cops that set him up. It’s not a bad premise, but it feels odd in a Crow movie. I can suspend some disbelief that he’d be put to death so quickly after the trial. But, what about the actual movie? Did the filmmakers surprise me? Yes, kind of. In how silly and stupid this movie is.
I think it starts with how miscast Eric Mabius is. The Crow should be dark. It should be twisted. This is not Eric Mabius. When I look up his filmography, it makes more sense since all his recent projects appear to be Hallmark Christmas specials. Then there’s Kirsten Dunst who I usually like, but her character can’t connect the most basic of things.
The action is overly silly. At one point, Alex Corvis starts a chain reaction with a car cigarette lighter into blowing up a helicopter in flight. Seriously.
The Crow: Salvation is bad, but during this revisit I’m bumping it up from 1 star to 1.5 stars because I did get some laughs with how comically inept it is.
