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Oh… dear. The reviews are in The Crow reboot and it is not good. Not good at all. The makers have been at pains to point out that it is a reboot, not a remake, and people should look to the original graphic novel for inspiration rather than the Alex Proyas 1994 movie. This will not help it.
In this version, Bill Skarsgård stars as Eric, who is murdered alongside his love Shelly (FKA Twigs), but is revived with the promise of bringing Shelly back to life if he dispatches the gangster who killed them. Much of the feedback on the movie speaks of an ending that is controversial and challenging.
The Crow currently sits at just 13% (4.4/10) on Rotten Tomatoes and 29/100 at Metacritic.
Here’s a sampling of review quotes:
“The Crow 2.0 is a total, head-in-hands disaster, incoherently plotted and sloppily made, destined to join the annals of the very worst and most pointless remakes ever made.”
Ben Lee, The Guardian
“The original Crow is by no means a perfect film — its dialogue is often corny, its sentimentality heavy-handed — and I don’t believe the comics are so sacred that they can never be adapted again. But Sanders’s vision is just dull.”
Shirley Li, The Atlantic
“The film may insist that Eric and Shelly’s is a grand romance of soul mates, but what it actually gives us is a burnout-detention boyfriend/rebellious-cheerleader girlfriend dynamic that doesn’t feel like it would last a long weekend.”
Alison Wilmore, Vulture
“The Crow isn’t bad — and it gets better as it goes — but it’s an exercise in folly. It cannot escape Lee and the 1994 original even as it builds a more allegorical scaffolding for the smartphone generation.”
Mark Kennedy, Associated Press
“The real problem comes down to script and execution, along with a failure to tackle that one big question all reboots really ought to answer: Why this story, and why now? Why did we need a new take on The Crow, after all these years?”
Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence
“Though Mr. Skarsgård is gravely charismatic and FKA twigs is touching, the dour, depressing dankness of Mr. Sanders’s vision makes The Crow a turkey.”
Kyle Smith, The Wall Street Journal
“The remake gets bogged down by a superfluous, hackneyed backstory and narrative threads that are conspicuous for their lack of emotional gravitas, causing the film to feel like a wheel-spinning exercise.”
Derek Smith, Slant Magazine
The Crow is in cinemas now, and PVOD by early next month at this rate.
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