Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1190 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-01-27
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Full Screen, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, Turkish
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 97 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Crow set the standard for dark and violent comic-book movies (like Spawn or director Alex Proyas's superior follow-up, Dark City), but it will forever be remembered as the film during which star Brandon Lee (son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee) was accidentally killed on the set by a loaded gun. The filmmakers were able to digitally sample what they'd captured of Lee's performance and piece together enough footage to make the film releasable. Indeed, it is probably more fascinating for that post-production story than for the tale on the screen. The Crow is appropriately cloaked in ominous expressionistic shadows, oozing urban dread and occult menace from every dank, concrete crack, but it really adds up to a simple and perfunctory tale of ritual revenge. Guided by a portentous crow (standing in for Poe's raven), Lee plays a deceased rock musician who returns from the grave to systematically torture and kill the outlandishly violent gang of hoodlums who murdered him and his fiancée the year before. The film is worth watching for its compelling visuals and genuinely nightmarish, otherworldly ambience. --Jim Emerson

Special Features
1.33 Full Screen
1.85 Wide Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English\Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Dolby Digital 2.0
Filmmakers Commentary
Deleted Footage
Extended Scenes
Featurette
Profile Of James OBarr
Poster Art
Production Design
Storyboard Sequences
Brandon Lees Last On Screen Interview

Synopsis
A young rock musician who was brutally murdered a year earlier is resurrected as a vengeful superhero in this stylish noir thriller. Out to avenge his and his fiancee's killings by destroying the city's evil crime lord, the Crow becomes a ray of hope for the city while battling his own inner demons. Based on James O'Barr's dark comic book series, this film features Brandon Lee's final performance.

Customer Reviews

THE WORK OF A TRUE GENIUS
"The Crow" is excellent in so many ways. First, Brandon Lee is unique, torn between grief and eagerness to avenge his and Shelley's death, the directing is outstanding and far above the standard of this genre, the visuals are a blast. In fact the entire cast - even the smaller roles - were excellently cast. There is nothing bad I can say about this movie. A MUST SEE!

A correctiom
there isn t turkish language or subtitle option on the disks.But the film is great

mindblowing...
I am not a particular fan of films slavishly adapted from graphic novels or comic books, because they are usually superfluous and artificial: CGI-based, one-dimensional, all climax, no build-up and no sense of shape. Mostly, they're stupid tales of good versus evil, and it would be utterly unrealistic to expect the story or script to be profound; characterization and acting to be strong. BUT, "The Crow" is an exception, strangely appealing and being one of the rarest remarkable adaptations put on a film.

"The Crow" is a gothic urban fantasy, telling the tale of man's two most unsatiable albeit the most self-destructive elements: the capacity for love and appetite for vengeance... Enormously simplistic and, perhaps for that reason enormously effective, it has a way of sucking you in almost right from the start. Thanks to the power of arresting visuals and Brandon Lee's out-of-the-world performance, "The Crow" liberates your soul, takes it and gives it a full-winged flight to its gloomy and grungy universe. The entire movie was filmed at night in the pouring rain. The soundtrack is filled with heavy electro-guitar riffs making a perfect combo with the impressive cityscapes which are decaying & crumbling. Wildly brutal and out of reality as its protagonist Eric Craven and that's cool...

On the downside, as I said, like most comic-book adaptations the plot is plain and predictable. Yeah, villains come across like cardboard cutouts. Some scenes feel largely extraneous, not contributing very much to the storyline. But, "The Crow" is definitely an offbeat experience and the triumph of LOVE, even after the life. (3.8/5.0)