The Crow (Miramax/Dimension Collector's Series) |  | Director: Alex Proyas
Actors: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, Ling Bai
Studio: Dimension
Category: DVD
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Rating:  349 reviews
Sales Rank: 2729
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.9
MPN: DISD21460D
UPC: 786936142723
EAN: 0786936142723
ASIN: B000059XUO
Theatrical Release Date: May 11, 1994
Release Date: March 20, 2001
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Product Description
ERIC DRAVEN AND HIS FIANCEE ARE MURDERED BY A RUTHLESS GANG. ONE YEAR LATER, ERIC RETURNS FROM HIS GRAVE TO AVENGE THEIR DEATHS. DRAVEN IS ENDOWED WITH SUPERNATURAL POWERS BESTOWED UPON HIM BY THE CROW. ERIC SEEKS REVENGE FOR HIS DEATH AND DESTROYS THE INNER CITY'S POWERFUL CRIME LORD AND HIS BAND OF THUGS.
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The Crow set the standard for dark and violent comic-book movies (like Spawn or director Alex Proyas's superior follow-up, Dark City), but it will forever be remembered as the film during which star Brandon Lee (son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee) was accidentally killed on the set by a loaded gun. The filmmakers were able to digitally sample what they'd captured of Lee's performance and piece together enough footage to make the movie releasable. Indeed, it is probably more fascinating for that post-production story than for the tale on the screen. The Crow is appropriately cloaked in ominous expressionistic shadows, oozing urban dread and occult menace from every dank concrete crack, but it really adds up to a simple and perfunctory tale of ritual revenge. Guided by a portentous crow (standing in for Poe's raven), Lee plays a deceased rock musician who returns from the grave to systematically torture and kill the outlandishly violent gang of hoodlums who murdered him and his fiancée the year before. The film is worth watching for its compelling visuals and genuinely nightmarish, otherworldly ambience. --Jim Emerson
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 The Crow DVD February 8, 2010
Breeze N. Harper
I freaking LOVE this movie! I have been looking for a DVD copy to replace my old VHS, and this one is definitely amazing. The bonus features also include a trivia game that you can play if you put this on your computer. The product was shipped very quickly, unopened DVD case, brand new. Very good purchase.
A real classic. February 1, 2010
Michael Mulloy
Brandon Lee is at his best in this, his last film. This is an excellent release of the movie.
 For fans of the original DVD release this is a good addition to a Blu-ray library January 14, 2010
C. Goldberg
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm writing this review based upon seeing this Blu-ray release on a Blu-ray player that wasn't mine and I wasn't able to really put the release through the paces. What I did see impressed me, however. I'm awaiting the arrival of my order from Amazon UK. From what I've personally seen in person and what I've read in various locations online the transfer of this film to Blu-ray makes it better than the original DVD release even though things would have been better if it had been remastered the. The DTS audio is a huge plus. The one downside is that they didn't add any new extra content whatsoever. I'm fine with that, however.
The Crow has always ranked on my list of favorite movies. All the subsequent sequels were garbage. The darkness of the movie, Brandon Lee, the music used, etc, all make it a great experience for the viewer. Rating this movie for content and the story is an easy 5 but it's one of those movies that people either love or hate. I've never met anyone who had an opinion in the middle.
Finally, I am not ordering this from Amazon US since they don't carry it. I never had the chance to since it's supposedly been discontinued according to Amazon. I ordered my copy from Amazon UK for $16 including shipping. I'm buying the Region B Blu-ray which means it won't play on a North American Region A player. I don't have to worry about the region issue but most people in North America do. I don't want people reading my review and then buying the Amazon UK version only to find that this Region B release won't play in their Region A Blu-ray player. I've warned people so I take no responsibility for people who don't heed my warning.
I'm rating this a 4 because it's not a perfect Blu-ray release. Getting the Blu-ray release required extra effort and the ability to play Region B discs, it lacks new bonus material while it is labeled a Collector's Edition release, and it wasn't remastered which would have made it better. For those negative points I subtracting 1 star. Because The Crow this is a great movie, and from what I have seen of the Blu-ray release it is worth having in a Blu-ray library, I'm giving it a 4.
EDIT: I have now received my Region B release of the Blu-ray and watched it. I'm more than happy with it. There's no extra content but I now have it added to my Blu-ray collection and it's better than my original standard DVD release. I see that a few people are now selling the item through Amazon US since I posted my initial review. The prices are simply ridiculous. I strongly recommend people who can play a Region B Blu-ray disc to just buy the disc new from Amazon UK. I paid all of $16 including shipping from the UK to the US. The three people selling it through Amazon US are marking it up simply because they can. The guy asking $9999 is a clown. Save yourself the money and time and just buy it directly from Amazon UK.
 The Crow - Blu Ray January 13, 2010
Albert Schneider
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would not purchase this item - hence I could not give it any star - it does not work in my blu ray player :(
Terrible sadness ends in revenge for the innocent January 11, 2010
Nan Lewin
The Crow is one of my favorite goth movies ever. It is a small classic in it's own way. It is a fantasy, an action film, and a romance all rolled into one dark and disturbing, scary, sad, inspiring, and sometimes downright chilling saga. Based on the graphic novel by James O'Barr, the movie has unfortunately been romanticized into a somewhat different story. Way to go Hollywood. But the story works. Brandon Lee is a good choice for the part of the main character, Eric Draven. He is a young and good-looking rock musician. His girlfriend, Shelley Webster, is petitioning for tenant's rights in her building in the worst part of downtown Detroit. The story in told interesting enough through Eric's flashbacks and cop scenarios throughout the film. The little girl Sarah tells us at the beginning of the film that a crow can carry back the soul of the dead once a terrible sadness will not let it die. And what happens to this couple is evil. Thugs barge in and shoot Eric until he falls out a five story window. Then they gang rape the poor girl until she dies later of agony in the hospital. It all happens on Devil's Night, the nickname in the area for the night before Hallowe'en, when they were to be married. Devil's Night is so named because the entire town goes up in flames as to the wishes of Big Dollar, the head of the underworld Syndicate. Exactly one year after the tragic event, Eric bursts out of the grave and, led by the huge raven, finds his way back to the deserted apartment where the murders happen. Everything he touches reminds of the event in a crazy flashback. He paints his face to look like the clown he feels he is. Fueled by a pulsing goth rock soundtrack by banad like The Cure and Nine Inch Nails, he sets out to destroy the thugs. In the meantime he ends up destroying the entire Syndicate. The violence is too sadistic and the atrocities are too real. But the villians are so sleazy and despicable that it somehow seems necessary. Eric also saves Sarah off the streets and gets her mother away from the gang. With the help of a kindly black cop he finds out everything he needs for all this action. But Big Dollar's girlfriend Myca disables the Crow so Eric is no longer quite as unstoppable as he was when it's guidance gave him the ability to conquer death. The final sequence in the church is a thrilling shootout to save Sarah's life after Eric tries to return to the grave to be with Shelley, his obsession. Eric wins the fight against Big Dollar by placing his hands on his head and giving him all Shelley's pain. He falls off the roof and is impaled on the gargoyles. Eric then, exhausted of energy, returns to the graveyard, where Shelley comes like an angel to kiss him back home. And home they go. The cop, on suspension, gets to say "I told you so!" to his snarling boss as he is wheeled out on a stretcher. No one believed his story. It's quite a yarn, true. But it works. The revenge fantasy is very inspiring, even though the violence and the flashbacks are hard to take. The movie does not stay true to James O'Barr's version, but it is exciting in a different way. It opened the door for the genre of graphic novel movies to come. And if you are brave, you should see it, even if it too dark and dangerous. Because it is worth seeing. It;s exciting.
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