The Crow - City Of Angels [DVD]

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Inhabitants of the City of Angels live within a gothic nightmare orchestrated by a despotic psychopath. Single her Ashe (Vincent Perez) loses his own life and that of his son under the murderous regime, but is allowed the chance of revenge when he is resurrected by a mysterious crow. He is guided on his path by a young psychic woman, Sarah (Mia Kirshner), who saw the crow's mighty powers in action once before when her friend Eric Draven was brought back from the dead. From .co.uk ----------- Because of his tragic death on the set of The Crow, we'll never know if Brandon Lee would have turned one successful film into a popular series. But one look at this tepid sequel suggests that not even the charismatic Lee could have rescued The Crow movies from the burden of a lacklustre screenplay. Based on the popular comic books by James O'Barr, this sequel finds Vincent Pérez as a man named Ashe, who is murdered along with his young son by a gang of drug-running thugs under the employ of slimy kingpin Judah Earl (Richard Brooks). Ashe is resurrected with the help of a tattoo artist named Sarah (Mia Kirschner), whereupon he begins a campaign of revenge against his killers. More a rehash than a sequel, the film repeats the grungy, dark look of urban decay from The Crow, but its combination of violence, heavy-handed symbolism and tacky sentiment make this a film strictly for nihilistic teens. Then again, no movie in which veteran punkster Iggy Pop plays a slimeball can be considered a total loss. -- Jeff Shannon, .co.uk Synopsis -------- L.A. die Stadt der Engel, ist zu einer apokalyptischen Metropole mutiert. Die Luft, geschwängert von gelben Nebeln, droht das Leben in den Straßen zu ersticken. Sarah erwacht von einem schrecklichen Alptraum: Ein junger Mann namens Ashe und dessen Sohn werden brutal hingerichtet. Sie wurden Zeugen eines Drogengeschäftes und in Folge dessen, befahl der finstere Drogenbaron Judah seinen Schergen, die beiden zu töten. Doch mit Hilfe der Krähe kehrt Ashe zurück in die Welt der Lebenden um Rache an den Mördern zu nehmen...