THE CROW 4K Ultra HD

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Great Steelbook , Dolby vision looks great with it being a dark film. A true timeless classic the best its looked. G4 OLED/ 820 player.

The Crow is my favorite comic book film. I never considered myself a big fan of classic comic book heroes. Because their stories never touched me on an emotional level like The Crow did. While the story is a pretty basic revenge tale, it's the visuals and the performances that makes this film work so well. Brandon Lee does an amazing job as the Crow. He is very bad***, funny, charismatic and he sells the dramatic parts very well. Same can be said about the supporting cast. Ernie Hudson really stands out as the cop who helps Eric Draven. Villains are also very villainous and delightfully evil. They are a lot of fun. The Crow is directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City) and he gives great visual style to the film. It's very well shot and the visual effects look really good. Overall The Crow succeeds were many comic book films fail. It invests you in the pain and suffering the character is feeling and you want him to succeed. I never got these feelings from current Batman, Iron Man or what ever comic book films in recent memory. This DVD comes with commentary track by producer Jeff Most and screenwriter John Shirley, deleted scenes, extended scenes, art gallery, making of featurette ( about 15 min), interview with Brandon Lee (about 5 min). And by far the most interesting of the lot - Profile of James O'Barr. It's about 35 minutes long interview with the creator of the Crow comic book. Very interesting and touching backstory on the creation of The Crow. Overall this a good selection of extra features and a must see film for any film or comic book fan.

This movie is an alltime classic - a true masterpiece! I watched it so many times and own it on all available formats - Laserdisc, Dvd, Blue Ray and now on 4K. And this 4K Version is a MUST OWN for every fan of this movie - in terms of visual quality its the definitive version of the film. Everything looks so much better and enhanced. As mentioned - I watched The Crow so many times, but still I was so pleasantly surprised to see and discover things - setpieces, details in the environment, details and mimics in the actors faces I`ve never noticed before. Re-Watching it on 4K was a truely enhanced experience and made this movie even better!

This review is for the 2024 Blu-ray re-issue/remaster. I’ll keep this short. The film is an absolute classic, and the picture and sound are about as good as it’s possible to get with regular blu-ray. Detail is great, as are black levels and contrast. Overall the film is an easy five stars; unfortunately there are zero special features which is why I have deducted a star. Personally, I’d prefer as much of the storage space on the disc dedicated to picture and sound as possible (which has clearly been done here) but no extras at all seems pretty mean. I’m guessing all the extras are on the 4K version. Anyway, the film itself has never looked or sounded as good, so still worth buying.

The Crow is an adaption of a then-little-known graphic novel of the same name by James O'Barr. There was much hype and anticipation surrounding the film, however, unfortunately all this was overshadowed by the tragic death of star Brandon Lee (son of legend Bruce Lee) prior to its completion (Lee was accidentally shot by a loaded gun during filming and later died from his injuries). While the tragedy hangs over the film (which was completed and released with permission from Lee's family, with a double standing in for Lee for the few remaining scenes the actor hadn't done), this is still an incredible, albeit haunting piece of film-making. The story begins when rock musician Eric Draven and his fiancée Shelley are brutally murdered by a gang of thugs on "Devil's Night." One year later, Draven rises from the dead and under the watchful eye of a mysterious crow, dons leather, barbed wire and "Kiss-style" clown make-up and seeks revenge on and his and his fiancée's killers. The powers of the crow have made Draven immortal and with increased senses and super vision; able to stalk the streets and catch his victims completely unawares. The film raises many controversial moral questions and while you are sympathetic to The Crow character, the ease he picks off his victims and the complete lack of emotion he shows when carrying out the terrible deeds is eerie. However, by no means does that mean that the film condones such behaviour; it's definitely used more as a "What If?" scenario (i.e if what happened to Draven happened to you and you could come back and seek retribution with no repercussions, what would you do?). Again, you don't necessarily agree with his tactics, but you can feel his pain and understand why the reborn Eric Draven can seemingly act without conscience. The addition of the little girl Sarah, adds some more human emotion to proceedings and shows a more softer side to Draven's Crow persona. It should also be noted that this is a truly mesmerising performance from the late Brandon Lee. On this evidence, he could have gone on to have one hell of a film career. He completely engulfs himself in the role and owns every scene he appears in, just like Heath Ledger does as The Joker in The Dark Knight (again, another film etched in tragedy due to Ledger's passing just after its completion). While the story is very simplistic (it actually needed "fleshing out" as the original graphic novel had less characters and less of a "story arc"), the film is well-acted (not just by Lee, but by a fine supporting cast) and beautifully shot. The action scenes are also superb and many scenes play to a thumping heavy metal soundtrack. Please be warned, though that this is not a typical "comic-book movie." It's a very bleak affair, shot in darkness and some would argue, writhing in misery and tragedy. However, it's engrossing from start to finish and had me close to tears in places. It is now one of my most favourite movies of all time, comic-book- based or otherwise. I would give the film 4 out of 5 stars, but the DVD as a whole 5 as the extras are great. There are deleted scenes, the last-ever interview with Brandon Lee, and interview with creator James O'Barr and more.

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Il film non può essere riprodotto in Italia. Questo é il messaggio comparso a schermo

今だ私の中ではベスト作品です。（当時、コアなファンが多いと聞きましたが。） ありがちと言ってしまえばそれまでですが、その後それぞれの俳優でドラマや映画になっているのには、それなりの作品なのかなぁと思います。 （マーク・ダカスコス主演の連ドラマは持ってます。未だに見ています。） 父親同様若くして亡くなった主人公の俳優さん（何かオーラあるんですよね。）、まだまだ活躍して欲しかったな…。 忘れた頃に又見たくなる作品です。

Hallo, ich kannte den Film bisher nur auf VHS. Die Qualität auf der Bluray ist für einen so alten Film (1994) ist wirklich atemberaubend! Über den Inhalt brauche ich nicht mehr viel zu schreiben ist ja bekannt. Leider hat der Film einen traurigen Hintergrund, der Tod von Hauptdarsteller Brandon Lee (Sohn von Legende Bruce Lee). Der Soundtrack ist natürlich auch klasse! Nur zu empfehlen!

Cuendo puse la película en el reproductor me apareció un mensaje diciendo que en mi región no podía ser reproducida Se me devolvió el importe sin problema

Back to my review It's a shame Brandon Lee had to die he did work work with Dolph Lundgren in a film called Show Down in Little Tokyo & some other action movies this movie would have put him in a league with Arnie & Sly. It's 1 of the last over the top action flicks. I can't believe there remaking this movie G*d D**n since when did we start remaking movies from the mid 90's.