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Wednesday 1 August 2018

The Crow: City of Angels (1996)

Sarah (the youth from the original film now grown, played by Mia Kirshner) inexplicably dreams of Ashe Corven (Vincent Perez), a victim of the city's nasty stock types, a man who seeks justice for himself and one other.
The Crow: CoA is a stupid movie with an ugly aesthetic. A pervasive yellow smog covers everything much of the time. Perhaps it was an attempt to give the city a miasmic, otherworldly feeling? I don't know, but it feels instead like there's a tank of cloudy piss situated between the viewer and their screen. It's dumb, but is perhaps the least of the movie's problems. Situations often make no sense and/or have little in common with the whole. The antagonists are woeful. The S+M people are ridiculous. And, for some reason, seeing the resurrected Ashe on a Ducati made me wholesale lose my shit.

1 exploding treetop out of 5

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