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The Crow is about the good fight, a belief in making a wrong right. This is a love story, a magical story of two souls destined to be together in life and in death.

Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiancé Shelly (Sofia Shinas) are brutally murdered on Halloween Eve, now labeled "Devil’s Night", from a group of degenerates named T-bird (David Patrick Kelly), Skank (Angel David), Tin Tin (Lawrence Mason) and Funboy (Michael Massee). They dirty up the streets for their demented and cruel crime boss Top Dollar (Michael Wincott), who runs the whole operation.

A little girl named Sarah (Rochelle Davis), being raised by Shelly because of her mother's involvement with drugs and with the street fungus she parties with, keeps Darla (Anna Thomson) from raising her in a healthy environment. A compassionate cop named Albrecht (Ernie Hudson), stayed by Shelly's hospital bedside for 30 hours until her passing, and is one of the ones most deeply effected by the murder of this couple.

Eric Draven's spirit one year after the murder is unearthed at his grave through a Crow, which holds a mystical connection towards Eric. Eric who’s infused with supernatural powers, is guided by the Crow to help him seek out the killers and avenge them. The only one who discovers the secret to ending Eric's supernatural death mission is Top Dollar's queen of his lair, and an eyeball collecting freak Myca (Bai Ling), who will go to great lengths to contain this power.

Sadly, Brandon Lee's last picture makes this movie all the more macabre, shocking and thought provoking, and carries throughout the film the uncanny feeling that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. For here is a man who films a movie about coming back from a terrible and too soon to be taken from this world tragedy, and it is exactly what happens to him in real life. It just isn't fair.

I strongly believe in something greater than we can see or touch, or even understand to be. I love the concept of this movie. I love the emotion, the heroics, the enduring love that two lives share within each other. Brandon Lee's role, where the power of love is so incredible that in order to find peace in his fiancé’s murder and his own, is able to come back to the world of the living to finally have closure. Gosh it's just so painful but so pure, it makes you weak all over.

The Crow is a dark picture where the over all feel of the movie's personality is only heightened, by the heinous and disgusting vermin that scour the city's grimiest and most depressing sections.

There is so much hate and vulgarity, so much destruction and cheapness that feeds off of the city and that is where love is, in the center of all this filth and sludge.

There is a visual magnet of images gathering on the screen, creating an attitude of exciting and explosive energy, keeping you fully centered on the film without having you become distracted or disengaged by the artfulness drawing you into it.

The cast is sensational. Each character has life brimming with personality and stunning techniques, showing off their acting performances.

From the unthinkable, disturbing and severe content, which feels no respect for any kind of life, to the heights of massive power and goodness that others will go through to keep the peace -that is how well these actors and actresses conformed to their roles.

The soundtrack is a powerful mixture of well known artists and not so well known artists, but very breathtaking to say the least.

This movie contains stirring and fundamentally intense songs, harboring such poetic lyrics and music, it just seeps inside your brain and takes it over, leaving you to feel the potency of those songs transcending throughout your body.

Most memorable and inspiring to me are the following artists on the sound track-"The Cure," (Absolutely fabulous in every way a song should be, just amazing!) "Machines of Loving Grace" (awesome, awesome song)! "Stone Temple Pilots,"(great song that has a heaviness to it, balanced so smoothly with the vocals of Scott Weiland) "Nine Inch Nails" (superbly cool)! "Rage Against The Machine"(powerfully charged song full of energy) "Violent Femmes,"( good song, great music) "For Love Not Lisa"( rocking good tune, has a lovely haunting softness to it as well) "The Jesus and Mary Chain"( good beat and sound to it, has a funky jam ) and "Medicine" (hypnotically enchanting).

Even if these artists are not on your list of listening pleasures, they might capture your attention on this CD, if only for these individual songs. It's one of the best soundtracks I've heard.

The Crow is a masterpiece of visual, sumptuous, art! Director Alex Proyas delivered a spectacular and creative movie based on the comic book by James O'Barr.

Impressive is mild to say the least. The feel of the movie is as it should be; dark, moody, gothic, and sinister, with the soul of the film being that of undying love shown in the eyes of Eric Draven.

Among all this dreariness there are times in the movie where you’re taken off guard by the great twisted sense of humor presented.

I loved this movie because it showed a remarkable force that shouldn't be reckoned with..love.

Written by: Lynda Dale MacLean

Reviewers Rating: 9
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