The Crow

The Crow (2024) is a haphazardly put-together mess that just doesn't have the style and class the original film had. The whole film feels incoherent and lacks any real momentum. Some stilted acting, even though Bill Skarsgård tries his best, and the writing doesn't help. That being said, it does have a couple of great action sequences, especially the opera house scene, so that's something. Overall, the movie defines mediocrity-maybe not even that. If you really want to watch a Bill Skarsgård action movie, check out the criminally underrated "Boy Kills World" that movie was a blast and a half. This one, though, is just a disappointing mess-and not even the fun kind.

Long sigh..... What are we doing here people, huh?

I'm not against redoing movies at all, but if you're going to do it please do it right. This movie was very bad in many ways, the misuse of actors. The Crow character was such a wimp, i kept saying maybe he'll get better, nope! The entire story, weak, the music, weak, I mean the opera setting with the opera music during the action scene was just horrible and down right annoying to say the least. I had many doubts going into this movie, but knew I just had to watch it to make sure. Boy was I let down, along with a ton of other people. Post movie, I'm still confused as to what I watched last night.

Everybody that's reviewing the movie poorly on here is doing it because it's an utter embarrassment to the original "the crow" content pieces.

I will try to be more original and tell you why it's bad without that, because this movie doesn't get any better if you look at it as a standalone piece of writing either

This movie was actually so cringe. It was difficult to watch. The female lead was painfully bad at acting. The antagonists were terribly dull. The main character's development was sloppy. The pacing of the movie was all over the place from the beginning to the end.

There was supposed to be emotional scenes in this movie but the audience was actually laughing at them. That's what this movie is. Laughable.

The trailer for this looked terrific, and it made me want to see it as soon as I could, but it is a case of here we go again, a great looking trailer, a disappointing film.

I'll start off with the positives, and there are a few of them. It looks stunning, this is one beautiful looking film, so dramatic, the costumes, the birds, the action sequences, and that place beyond.

The music is terrific, it worked so well, we even get some Enya, a voice made for moody and atmospheric scenes.

Eric certainly looks the part, and I can imagine plenty of youngsters with pictures of him on their walls, the tattooed, hipster looks cool, and there's no denying that Bill Skarsgård plays the part very, very well, but something was missing. I didn't care about Eric, or his fate, or his romance.

As soon as Eric got his powers, it was essentially game over, the villain of the piece was powerless to stop his dark eye shadowed up adversary.

Danny Huston was good, and I loved seeing Josette Simon in a big movie release, a talented actress who's been around for so long, yet never seems to age.

Atmospheric and moody, but ultimately lacking in soul and substance.

5/10.

I like Bill Skarsgård as an actor and I'm feeling sorry for him that they completely wasted his talent here.

Although I'm also a huge fan of the original movie The Crow with Brandon Lee I tried to be as unbiased as possible and not to make any comparisons but instead look at it like a completely new movie.

Initially, I liked the idea of showing more of the story between Eric and Shelly but I had quite a hard time of getting warm with the female lead. However, while watching and waiting for the lovestory of a century to unfold on the screen my expectations were repeatedly let down. I don't know what fimmakers were thinking. I don't know what they aimed at. EVERYTHING about their storytelling was kept very shallow. They tried to depict broken characters falling in love while being intertwined in a brutal fight against evil but they only ever scratched at the surface of what an appealing narrative should be like.

They absolutely failed in telling the story about that pure and unconditional love between the leading roles. Mind you, a love so pure and innocent, so powerful, that it brings one back from the death to take revenge and wipe out the evil that separated the two loving souls in the first place.

They could have put that in a 5 min. Narrative: Why did they fall in love? Oh, uh... they both experienced veeery bad things. Anything else? Uh... yeah... they love to party and get stoned together! And that's why he's brought back? Yeah, he must kill them all!

I'm so sorry... nothing in this movie worked for me. And though I didn't want to I'm bound to make this one comparison: Each time I watch the original movie, I'm still moved. I want the kind of love that Eric and Shelly shared, I want the villains to suffer and die. I wallow in that dark and at the same time beautiful scenery of the whole movie.

Not with this one though. I just couldn't wrap up any kind of feelings, neither towards the main characters nor the villains. I just didn't care. Just like the movie makers obviously didn't care.