The Crow

 

“True love never dies.”

Forced, shallow and sanitised, The Crow is a bird-brained murder that takes itself too seriously, failing to capture the macabre gothic atmosphere the character stems from and instead delivering an emo attempt befitting the TikTok algorithm.

Discussion Points:

Bad. Just very bad. Poorly written, thinly plotted, weirdly miscast and too sanitised. So brightly lit and digitally sheened for a story about a macabre gothic character. Bill Skarsgard and FKA Twigs central romance is rushed. Their dialogue corny and unconvincing. The film takes itself way too seriously but it’s never actually edgy or gothic. In a media landscape that includes The Boys and Deadpool, The Crow fails to deliver genuine edge, feeling like a poor attempt to connect with a subculture that doesn’t want another film. I’d say this film feels like a cash grab, but I really don’t know how much cash there is to grab. Who is this film for? The editing is sloppy. The soundtrack mismatched. The VFX and green screen flat and underrendered. The Crow is never threatening, menacing or intimidating. He just looks like a poor attempt to cosplay Jared Leto’s Joker. An overlong, underwritten waste of time.