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As someone that admires the 1994 Crow movie and heavily despised its follow up The Crow: City of Angels, so much so that I never bothered with either Salvation or Wicked Prayer, I still went ahead and gave the new Crow movie a fair chance despite all the negative reviews. After watching it, I see why a lot of people don't like this movie. So how bad is the new Crow movie really?

Let's put it like this, 20% of the movie is "so bad it's good" while the other 80% of the movie is just "boring" bad. The only time the movie sort-of shines in fun and excitement is the few admittedly decently put together action scenes (especially the opera scene) coupled with some crazy blood & gore (albeit in less than stellar CGI effects). The rest of the movie is nothing more than a lame, boring wannabe artsy fartsy mess with a uninteresting love story, bad character development, sloppy writing and direction, stiff pacing, visual palette looking too clean for this type of movie, so clean that it looks more like a Netflix production than a major or mini-major theatrical production, cringey acting from the cast (with exception of Bill Skarsgard whom is the only one here that was trying his best), etc.

Overall, not the absolute worst movie of the year, but still nonetheless a pretty terrible movie that I wouldn't recommend. Only marginally better than the ill-fated Crow: City of Angels. Brandon Lee must still be rolling his grave with all these subpar Crow entries after the 1994 film!

Yikes, this was painfully underwhelming in a lot of areas. It may have some decent animation, voice-acting, some cool gore, and a wicked premise, but all of that were wasted on a below average flick that suffers from awkward pacing, underwhelming writing and overall plot, lack of a coherent direction, and bland unfunny humor & jokes. A damn shame because I really liked Aqua Teen Hunger Force (this movie is written by the same guy that wrote a lot of episodes for that show) and its quirky humor, but this was painfully bland at best. Somehow this 70 minute long movie feels 3x as long. Overall, better than some other Tubi Original movies, but sadly still far from being halfway decent.

I was pleasantly surprised by this one. The trailers didn't leave me with too much impression, but I was still willing to give it a fair shot anyway, and now I'm quite glad I did. I found this movie to be pretty good overall, despite that I had a few issues here and there. The cons are mediocre characterizations, slightly slow, clunky pacing at times, some historical points in this movie are inaccurate, and almost no actual violence whatsoever due to the PG-13 rating, I personally feel this movie would greatly benefitted from the R rating rather than PG-13 which was done for sake of attracting a wider audience.

And now for the positive aspects of this movie. Amazing acting performances all-around, above average visuals and cinematography, high quality production values, interesting presentation and concept, some useful social commentary here & there, cool action scenes along with decent editing, and a great Terrence Blanchard music score.

In conclusion, while this movie could use a few improvements here and there, I still had a good time watching this movie overall and is something I do personally recommend.