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Overview

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Director:

Bharat Nalluri

Writers (WGA):

James O'Barr (comic book series) (comic strip)
Chip Johannessen (written by)

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Release Date:

14 June 2000 (USA) more

Tagline:

For Vengeance, For Justice, For Love.

Plot:

Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of. full summary | add synopsis

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User Comments:

Great plot and nice ideas in an underdeveloped movie more (142 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kirsten Dunst ... Erin Randall

Eric Mabius ... Alex Corvis / The Crow

Fred Ward ... The Captain

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe ... Lauren Randall

William Atherton ... Nathan Randall

K.C. Clyde ... Brad
Bruce McCarthy ... Madden

Debbie Fan ... Barbara Chen
Gabrielle Woods ... Old Woman

Dale Midkiff ... Vincent Erlich

David Stevens ... Tommy Leonard
Grant Shaud ... Peter Walsh

Bill Mondy ... Phillip Dutton

Walton Goggins ... Stan Robbers (as Walter Goggins)
Britt Leary ... Stacey
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Crow 3 (USA) (working title)
The Crow III - Tödliche Erlösung (Germany) (DVD title)
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MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive strong violence, and for sexual content and language.

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

Germany | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA


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Trivia:

Was released direct-to-video after poor test screenings. more

Goofs:

Continuity: In various close-ups of Alex Corvis, his hair is much shorter than it is at all other times in the movie. more

Quotes:

Alex Corvis (The Crow): [girl screams after Alex's head hit the window] You're up! more

Movie Connections:

Follows "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven" (1998) more


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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Great plot and nice ideas in an underdeveloped movie, 23 May 2001
Author: Tin Man-5 from Auke Bay, Alaska

"The Crow: Salvation," the fourth installment in the popular series of murdered men brought back from the dead to avenge their deaths, is certainly a step in the right direction after the travesty of previous entries. The first Crow, which is best known for being the film in which Brandon Lee was killed (duh), is a cult classic directed by Alex "Dark City" Proyas, and even today, it is regarded as probably the greatest of the gothic/action/modern noir films. It's sequel, "The Crow: City of Angels," starred Vincent Perez, and while it featured some nice ideas and beautiful images, it was nothing more but a poor remake of the first film lacking all the heart of the original. "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven" came next, and it was two episodes of the TV show of the same name re-edited into a motion picture and released as a sequel to the first film. Instead of being a remake in disguise as a sequel like "City of Angels," "Stairway" goes ahead and just literally remakes the first film with the same characters, basically the same plotline, and none of the magic (though Mark Ducascos as the title character certainly demonstrates a type of charisma in his martial arts).

Now comes "The Crow: Salvation." Eric Mabius stars as Alex Corvez, who is wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend and returns from the dead to take out the real killers, with the help of his dead girlfriend's sister and a lawyer friend. As a sequel, it thankfully works because it has a premise completely different from the first film (something the other sequels failed to pull off) and it stands on its own, introducing its own magic and its own intruiging plot elements. It certainly is a good film and a good sequel, and while some points in the movie seem contrived, what film nowadays doesn't have at least a few obvious plot points?

The bad: Much of the film is underdeveloped, especially many characters. While the plotline is good, it seems rushed much of the time, and the viewer has to draw their own conclusions about many things. Some of the dialogue is also atrocious.

The good: Well well, there's much more of that. Eric Mabius as the central character shines throughtout. For the first time, we have a character in one of these movies *not* ripping off Brandon Lee, but instead, bringing his own qualities and characterizations to the character. The results are an effective performance that makes us forget about Lee altogether...at least until the film comes to a close. The plot, something of a murder mystery, would have made a good film even if it hadn't been a Crow film, and the images and notions presented only add to the appeal, especially with the character of the Crow itself, which at the beginning, acts as if this is just a routine thing to bring someone back to the dead, and that he's done it before. Later, however, it genuinely gets intruigued by Corvis' vendetta and begins aiding him more.

All in all, this is certainly much more acceptable that previous entries, and it succeeds where the others failed: Introducing new elements into a Crow franchise that, so far, has been nothing more but rip offs of the first film.

*** out of ****

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