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Without Brandon Lee, The Crow Doesn’t Fly
The textured humanity Lee gives The Crow is still its strongest asset, and 30 years after the film’s debut, still its most memorable quality.
Here was a nice young couple about to get married, involved in their community and opposed to tenant eviction in their neighborhood, and their slaughter remains unsolved — until a year later, when Draven is brought back from the dead by a mysteriously powerful crow and sets out to murder everyone responsible. And to be fair, the film’s action scenes are visceral: A darkly mischievous Lee uses his martial-arts-trained fluidity as he takes hits, whirls and twirls around a massive shootout sequence, and waves good-bye to one of the baddies he sends to his death off a pier. First-person-perspective shots put us in Eric’s shoes after he’s brought back to life, from when he breaks through his coffin and crawls to the surface of his grave to his hand reaching for the crime-scene tape that still decorates his and Shelly’s front door.
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