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Join Telegram ChannelRising from the dead, The Crow franchise returns in the form of a strange B-movie, too scattered but punctuated by beautiful images.
The magic formula John Wick did she manage to pull off the reboot/remake of The Crow of development hell ? The project has been hanging around with the franchise of the same name in the DTV fog for decades (raise your hand: who has seen The Crow: Wicked Prayer with Edward Furlong, Dennis Hopper and David Boreanaz in 2005?), and has seen many names pass through its credits since we started talking about it (it was in 2008 – do your research…). The result is less John Wick than expected, even if the climax of the film (the hero massacres a dozen henchmen with a katana on the stairs of an opera house, in an ultra-violent way) resonates a lot with the overwhelming Keanu saga. In fact, this strange, and not unpleasant, mix of a brutal urban thriller with a backdrop of emo-supernatural romance, crossed with references to the imagery of the “aesthetic” filmmakers of the 80s (the dying horse, the best friend of admen since the first outbursts of Sir Ridley) is more reminiscent of the pretty Constantine by Francis Lawrence (also with Reeves, by the way). The best idea of this project (besides Bill Skarsgård's abs) is to have hired Rupert Sanders. Even if this Crow-there is the opposite of the beauty of its remake of Ghost in the Shella little broken, a little patched up, we can't help but find it more fascinating and successful than average. As the hero's lover says, he is “beautifully broken”.
Of Rupert Sanders. With Bill Skarsgård, FKA Twigs, Sami Bouajila… Duration 1h51. Released on August 21, 2024