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Watch: The Crow 2024 123movies, Full Movie Online – Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save the love of his life, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge..
Plot: Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
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	4.7/10 Votes: 25,580
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I think the best plan of attack for this film is to forget all about Brandon Lee’s 1994 version and treat this as a stand-alone vehicle for Bill Skarsgård to show off his ninja skills. He’s “Eric” who encounters “Shellly” (FKA twigs) and is then promptly embroiled in the devilish machinations of “Roeg” (Danny Huston) who ensures that his hench-woman “Marion” (Laura Birn) kills them both. Turns out, though, that “Eric” still has enough purity of soul left to return to the land of the living and so long as he is touched by true love’s kiss sort of thing, will remain immortal long enough to avenge the couple. Yes, there is a crow – the embodiment of his spirit when he goes on his murderous spree, but that whole theme isn’t at all developed so let’s just forget about that and revert to the whole point of the film – an excuse to pack loads of slaughter, acrobatics and dark, eerie photography into all but two hours of repetitious mediocrity. The camera likes Skarsgård well enough, and there’s certainly plenty of him to see here as he takes on all comers. Why were they killed though? Who is “Roeg”? Sure, you can put your own interpretation onto the story if you can be bothered, but director Rupert Sanders has almost entirely focussed on the gloomy and very wet imagery and decided against putting any meat on the bones of the story or the characters. There’s a welcome paucity of dialogue throughout and FKA clearly twigged there wasn’t much for her to do here so leaves much of the film to her co-star trying his best to be an amalgam of “John Wick” and “Selene” from “Underworld” (2003). It does look good but hasn’t an original feather in it’s body. It’s nice to see Josette Simon (remember “Blake’s Seven”?) on the big screen, albeit briefly, but this is really all very disappointing.

Closer to ‘Morbius’ than it is to ‘The Crow’.

That is… A: not even a joke, it honestly felt similar vibe-wise to that infamous ‘Sony’s Spider-Man Universe’ movie for large portions. B: not as big a slight as you may think, as I didn’t dislike that Jared Leto flick as much as most others did (not saying it’s good, mind).

Still, this version of the highly regarded 1994 picture isn’t all that, I’m afraid. it almost feels like something completely different, they could’ve altered a few minor things and made an entirely original film to be honest. I found the pacing to be particularly off, while the antagonist(s) are extremely plain throughout.

I do have some positives. Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs make for a solid pairing, I sensed enough chemistry between them and both their performances are satisfactory. The music is decent, while some of the kills are creatively done and well shown onsreen.

All in all, however, it’s a thumbs down from me; no copyright infringement intended, Messrs Siskel and Ebert.

This Crow Doesn’t Fly!
Horrible remake. I gave it 3 stars for Skarsgard’s performance. I thought he did a good job of a pure but tortured soul. Nothing else redeeming in this movie. The director did a very poor job. He chose to concentrate on artsy film takes of graphic violence that left no room for the essence of the storyline. This director was way too in love with himself to get the story translated to the screen.

The original movie with Brandon Lee was before its time. It captured the story of pure love of good souls who are so wrongly violated that it needed to be avenged.

Save your money and watch the original which stands up to the trial of time. Just like all good movies.

A real fan trying to like a new retelling of a favourite memory
The Crow 2024 A review by Joe Symons

This review doesn’t contain specific spoilers but does include thematic spoilers that might affect your watching of the movie.

I have just watched the 2024 release of The Crow. I heard the negative reviews and I wanted to judge for myself.

Let me begin with my background with regard to this story, the character of Eric, and my relationship to them.

My father introduced me to the original Brandon Lee movie when I was a little too young to see it. I remember the moment clear as day. Sitting on the sofa, my father tapped me on the shoulder and said “here, I think you might like this” handing me a movie called The Crow.

That movie went on to define my character for much of my adolescence and early adulthood. It was a formative experience and it defined my sense of justice and love.

I later became aware of the graphic novel, and James O’Barr and his motivation for creating it. That novel sits proudly on my bookshelf and I will still open its pages to this day.

Let’s just say, I know my source material.

Let me rephrase…

I know my interpretation of the source material.

That was why I wanted to see this version of the movie. Because I wanted to see another interpretation of what I think is one of the most beautiful stories of love and loss told in modern times.

The sequels in the 90s and 2000s were terrible. Unnecessary attempts to recapture a uniqueness that was like lightning in a bottle.

This 2024 remake however does do some things very well, and I would even go as far to say remain more faithful to the graphic novel source material than the Brandon Lee adaptation. Yes, I can even bring myself to say that as such a staunch fan of the original movie.

Bill Skarsgard brings an intensity and focus to his portrayal of Eric that deserves respect. He is undoubtedly talented and has the skill and experience to make a great casting choice. I felt he was able to bring some previously unexplored subtleties to the role that lend credence to his performance.

The film has received significant criticism for its protracted telling of Shelly and Eric’s love story, and I think that this demonstrates that everyone involved in this retelling of this story did understand one essential thing.

The whole story is about love. It’s a love letter to someone taken from you in the worst way imaginable. It’s a scream to anyone that will listen for help with just how much that loss destroys you and muffles your cries for help in self destructive behaviour.

I could see in the watching of this interpretation that these themes were represented. I do give recognition for that. I also felt that telling the love story in greater detail was done with respect. Both to the source material and the audience.

It was the telling of this that was intended to justify what happens after.

The problem is however that it is not just the love that drives Eric in the source material, or the 1994 version of the movie. It is the utter unadulterated rage and disgust at the savagery in how that love was torn from him.

“People once believed that when someone died, a Crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes something so bad happens, that the soul can’t rest and sometimes, just sometimes, the Crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.”

The defining problem I see with this interpretation is that what happens to Shelly isn’t by any stretch close to the horror that is displayed in any previous adaptation. It felt almost like the film makers were afraid of showing such brutality to a female character.

One thing that often comes up in film and art, is juxtaposition. The contrast of one thing to another.

This is something the 1994 version and the source material gets 100% right.

We are told the love story through Eric’s memory of Shelly. We see her only through his eyes. We see their love play out in flashback.

It is otherworldly, beautiful and sacred. They are one love together in a city of corruption and darkness.

Her smile, her whisper of “I love you” to him. “Say that again”… “I love you”. They are each other’s worlds. We as an audience don’t need half a movie to make that clear.

What we do need, is a catalyst to enable us to suspend our disbelief and hang our morals at the door to get behind our protagonist and accept and root for the justice they enact on our villains.

That catalyst is missing from this movie.

The death of Shelly Webster in the source material and 1994 movie is different. But both are visceral and hard to watch. Both peak into the darkest aspects of humanity and deliver an experience as a viewer that pushes us to a place where it’s impossible for us to not want to see worse inflicted on those that perpetrated those things upon her.

This movie, while an 18 rating delivers a 12a Shelly death that frankly left me feeling that writing her off as an unfortunate statistic would have been the humane thing to do.

It certainly did not justify the killing spree or gore that we witness Eric’s character embark upon.

And that for me was the fundamental flaw with this interpretation. It felt like they didn’t have the courage to embrace the brutality of an event that is so bad that it needs a soul to be brought back from the dead. Instead they try to frame it that simply the loss of the love is enough. But for a 2024 audience, it just isn’t anymore. Maybe is never was, or there would be revenge stories happening all the time.

The film does dive more into the supernatural hinted at in the original graphic novel, but it’s augmented by this super bad guy who seems to be both supernatural and human at the same time. It’s tonally inconsistent and the climax leaves a lot to be desired.

Focusing on what I think the message is: love that you’re willing to sacrifice your immortal soul for is worth fighting for. Or love lost can drive a person to sacrifice everything and everyone for a chance to save that loved one. Both carry overtures of the original source material. Perhaps in the grief put on parchment through the graphic novel, that was at least in part what Mr O’Barr wanted to portray.

Does it really resonate with me as an audience member in 2024… no.

I didn’t go in to see Shelly Webster get brutalised (I’ve already seen that), but without it, the Crow doesn’t work. There isn’t enough rage in me to want to see Eric walk through a shower of bullets and corpses only to raise up on the other side as a righteous warrior.

Well done for retelling a story that is something that will forever be looked upon with love and respect from me, but I’m sorry to say that you missed the mark in my opinion.

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Original Language en
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Budget 50000000
Revenue 24008667
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Fantasy
Director Rupert Sanders
Writer James O’Barr, Zach Baylin, William Josef Schneider
Actors Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston
Country United States, United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic
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