The Crow Review to celebrate 30 years of this classic.

 

The Crow Review

30th Anniversary. 

To celebrate 30 years of this classic film, which is also a sad film to review as this was the last film Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, starred in. He was sadly killed on set by a real bullet during a scene. So here is my review of The Crow to celebrate 30 years of this great film.

The film is about Eric Draven, a rock star who was planning to marry his girlfriend, Shelly Webster. However, this gang of criminals, T-Bird, Funboy, Skank, and Tin Tin, led by Top Dollar, raped Shelly and murdered Eric by stabbing him, shooting him, and throwing him off a building. A girl in the movie named Sarah is friends with Shelly and Eric, and she learns that Shelly died of her injuries. Sarah is devasted over their deaths but later learns that Eric is the Crow and is trying to avenge Shelly's death and his own death. 

It's a very dark story, but it has a happy ending. 

The Crow is a spirit that carries the souls of the dead into the next life, but if the person who died has unfinished or died a horrible, unjust death. The crow revives them to set things right, basically avenging their own deaths and the deaths of their loved ones. 

The movie had some great action, had some funny moments, and heartfelt moments too, but this film could be scary to watch. Eric is a scary guy, but he's a good guy who wants to avenge his girlfriend and his own death. The villains are good in this film, and they are hateable. One of the best characters is Sgt Daryl Albrecht, played by Ernie Hudson, who helps Eric take down Top Dollar and his gang. I met Ernie Hudson once at Comic-Con, and he's a great guy. I did ask him about Brandon Lee, and he said Brandon was a great guy, a good friend and he knew Brandon before they made Crow. From what Ernie told me about Brandon Lee, he sounded like a really cool guy. Ernie said in a recent interview about the upcoming remake. The Crow ended with Brandon Lee, and he was the Crow. I totally understand were he's coming from like I don't think he plans to see the remake. To him the Crow ended with Brandon Lee and that's totally fair. He lost a friend and it's something any of us here can't get over loosing a good friend.

https://movieweb.com/ernie-hudson-says-the-crow-ended-with-brandon-lee-and-hes-done-with-any-remake/ Heres a link to his interview if you want to read more into it. 

This is a great superhero goth film, and fans remember Brandon's Crow so fondly. This is the best Crow film because the other Crow films and a short lived tv-show was crap.  

The movie's ending was epic and it ends on a happy note. It also has a beautiful tribute to Brandon and Elise, his fiancee.

The whole cast of this movie did a great job, especially Brandon Lee, and it's sad how this was his final film. It's like he had big plans after this movie. He was going to get married, he wanted to start a family, and no doubt, there were prominent roles he could have played in the future. I could have see him becoming a great action movie star and who knows he could have done some drama and comedy movies too. However, Brandon Lee's work will live on forever. His fiancee Elise found love again, and she's a married woman with a daughter. Brandon survived by his sister Shanon Lee and his mother Linda Lee.

The late Michael Massee played one of the villains, Funboy. He was the man who shot Brandon Lee in the scene where Crow goes after Funboy, shoots him and thinks he's dead, but The Crow rises up and kills him. 

However, during the scene, the gun that was supposed to shoot blank bullets but someone accidentally put in a real bullet, and Michael shot the gun, and Brandon didn't get up. It was never supposed to happen. It was a freak accident. 

Michael was traumatized by what happened, and he couldn't believe he killed his friend and he took a year off acting to cope with what happened. He managed to move on with his life with the help of his family and friends, but never forgot what happened that day. He even said he couldn't watch the Crow film after what happened.

Michael Massee once said in an interview 

"I don't think you can get over something like that."

I can't imagine what that's like, but like he said you can't get over something like that. Still, Michael returned to acting and eventually he got married and had two children. He sadly passed away back in 2016 from stomach cancer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdwenRvCKmQ&ab_channel=extratv

Heres a link to his interview back in 2005 about the incident.

We are getting a Crow reboot with Bill Skarsgard, and many people don't like his look. 

If it's like Sonic, I'm sure they can change it, but I'm giving this movie a shot when it comes out. 

There have many attempts to reboot The Crow, and a lot of people didn't like the idea because we got crappy sequels. Some reboot attempts had many problems, and so many actors were lined up to play Eric Draven/The Crow. Mark Wahlberg, Bradly Cooper, Jason Momoa, Luke Evans, and Jack Huston were all offered and set to play Eric Draven, but production problems happened, cancelled reboots, and they all dropped out. 

Still, I'll see this new Crow film; hopefully, it's good but I don't think it will be as good as the original.

I give the Crow a 8 out of 10. It's a great film from the 90s and still holds up 30 years later. 

I dedicate this review to both Brandon Lee and Michael Massee. 

Two amazing actors who will be remembered fondly for their acting and for the good men they were.

Go watch The Crow.