‘The Crow’ Review: Failed But Peculiar

‘The Crow’, a new version of the comic book series by James O’Barr, which was brought to the big screen by Alex Proyas in the 1990s, is being hailed as a disaster. American critics are not kind to it. Is it really a disaster? No. In fact, it is sometimes difficult to understand the whim behind the likes and dislikes of certain films. ‘The Crow’ is a film with obvious problems, but it also has interesting things, especially in relation to the space it occupies in contemporary commercial cinema.. Basically because, whether voluntarily or not, it goes its own way in many ways. Its aesthetics, its profound pessimism, its old-fashioned romanticism, its way of depicting violence (unexpectedly ugly, crude and grotesque) and even certain visual resources and solutions are totally out of date, they are not in fashion in films of the dimensions of ‘The Crow’. There is something in it of an act of resistance to the inertia and patterns of the present.

That’s why it feels bad that its structure is so inconsistent. His narrative is too simple to sustain the weight of his successes.The story of Eric / The Crow (Bill Skarsgård) lacks a minimum of elaboration, especially in the way it tells the story of the protagonist, and it has too much insistence on obvious premises. The story progresses in fits and starts, with difficulty sustaining the most interesting conceptual and visual ideas of the proposal.