The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)

Masterful Movie

Best movie ever!

An action-packed slog

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

On his way to becoming an immortal demon, gang leader Luc Crash (Boreanaz) orchestrates the murder of Jimmy Cuervo (Furlong) and his girlfriend, Lily (Chriqui).You would think by this point that the Crow franchise would have died out. But no. You get another chance, and even with direct-to-video, they pulled out some pretty good stars: Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Danny Trejo and even Dennis Hopper! Though not a great film, it is not as awful as it could have been. What the "Crow" has done a good job of, at least since the second film, is give the minority community a hero. Furlong is of Mexican descent, as are many of the actors in this one. How many horror films feature Latinos? Not many.

The title of this atrocity should have been "The Movie That Killed A Franchise"! Are you kidding me? One great movie - and then a pretty good sequel - and then a not so good, but still interesting second sequel - and then finally - this vile thing? REALLY??? Devolution at it's absolute worst...David Boreanaz as the arch villain in a Crow movie? That's about as logical as casting Jack Black as James Bond. Talk about attempting an "oil and water" mixture. Also, Tera Reid had absolutely no business being in a movie like this, after all - it's devoid of cheerleaders - and there are no Frat houses full of drunken National Lampoon extras. A genuine "Fish out of water" type of situation to be sure. The casting on this toilet flush must have been suggested by somebody who was deliberately bent on ruining a movie before it was even entirely off of the drawing board - no doubt a desperate act of revenge more gruesome than any Crow movie could ever have portrayed to begin with. At least somebody could have been merciful enough to have taught Danny Trejo how to do a half way decent native American dance for crying out loud - instead of looking as if he were attempting an Orangutan impersonation. This traffic accident was to the memory of Brandon Lee - as burning the U.S. flag is to the Veterans of Foreign Wars association.This film was not in keeping with the "Crow tradition", in that it was not at least a marginally well done, moody, atmospheric, eerie tale of an otherworldly instrument of karmatic payback - but was instead written as if it were a story made up by third graders over a cafeteria table at lunch. it was childish and silly - not moving and involving. I've seen deeper, more exciting Burger King commercials.Edward Furlong was actually creepy and passively interesting enough to have made a pretty good "Crow", but unfortunately he was far too bogged down by idiotic writing, poor direction, lousy stunt choreography, derivative costuming, horrible production values, and a sheepish budget to have effectively gotten any revision of the character properly off of the ground. A very sad thing. I think that he may have been able to go places with this character - had his creative vehicle been slightly better than a rusted out junker with four flat tires.The entire movie seemed like it was written and shot in a single afternoon. A real disappointment - and a bad way to end a running theme. The funding for this movie would have better been spent if it were used for building a Putt Putt golf course. To call this movie merely "silly", is to give it far too much credit.

This isn't as good as I remembered it to be. The movie does have a few problems (eg, the spaghetti western style introductions to the antagonists, flashbacks containing lines of dialogue that really weren't in the original scenes) but I did find it in me to like this movie. Sure maybe not as much as the other Crow movies but I still thought it was pretty good.Now I maybe getting a bunch of people really angry at me for liking this movie (I don't get angry about anybody else's movie taste, I might have in my earlier years of reviewing but not now) . This is my opinion (and to some extent a guilty pleasure, how can you take Dennis Hopper seriously in this movie?).Now onto what I liked in this movie; basically I LOVED how they didn't make Cuervo an innocent. It does make him a little more 3 dimensional than what this movie. I also liked the change of setting and style to the other three movies (if you take out of account the opening).Basically, to me this movie is the ultimate B-movie for me to like. The writing could have been so much better than what it was (it was more on and off for me - meaning some writing in places was good - other times it was mediocre).So is it a movie to get all fancy about with these pseudo-"intellectuals" (I've met some "experts" they would have to be the worst people to talk about movies to)? The answer is "Oh GOD NO!" Is it a rather entertaining movie with many problems but good anyway? Yeah, I suppose so - well, it was for me.

The second Crow movie was awful without a doubt. It was boring, on a lower budget, and felt like it was being made only for a profit. However, despite the numerous errors of it was still watchable. Nothing in this movie makes any sense. From the Crow being a messenger of God (since when?) to him having to fight Satan (even though David Boreanaz character doesn't change at all) Edward Furlong actually seems like he might had been a good Crow if he was given a better script and if he laid off the drugs. The worst part about this movie was Tara Reid though. Tara Reid has never been a good actress but she is incredibly washed up and it shows from this movie. I know that Dennis Hopper has been in some turkeys as well but this must had been a new low for him.