Written by Lance Mungia And Jeff Most And Sean Hood
Directed by Lance Mungia
Jimmy: "Someone owes me two lifetimes and a set of perfect blue eyes."
Heading into the final movie before the reboot's release this week, I have to reiterate that there's some diminished returns with this franchise. This one being the worst one so far.
This time our protagonist was an ex criminal named Jimmy Cuervo (Edward Furlong). Yet again, he has a girlfriend. She's called Lily (Emmanuelle Chriqui). She's got the sight. Sadly for this couple, neither of them seem death coming.
The death being at the hands of a gang of Satanists, led by the unimaginatively named, Luc 'Death' Crash (David Boreanaz) and his envious girlfriend, Lola Byrne (Tara Reid). The rest of the group compiled of War (Marcus Chong), Famine (Tito Ortiz) and Pestilence (Yuji Okumoto). Early into the movie, they get out of prison and kill both Jimmy and Lola.
Needless to say, Jimmy gets revived and became the new Crow and got the biggest crow to boot. While trying to avenge his dead girlfriend, Jimmy also had to contend with Lily's priest father, Padre Harold (Danny Trejo) and sherriff brother, Tanner (Dave Baez). Both blamed him for Lily's death before realising the bigger threat at stake.
The threat being this movie committing to the Satan worshipping by having Luc and Lola get engaged with the help of El Nino (Denis Hopper) as part of a ritual for Luc to becone a host for Lucifer. What better place than a Catholic church for such an event?
Yeah, we get the big stand off,many deaths, a wasted cameo appearance from Macy Gray and a last minute attempt for Lola to renounce her Satan worshipping ways as Luc failed to outsmart Jimmy. All of this as the movie somewhat hurtled towards it's ending.
- Despite Lily having blue eyes, actress Emmanuelle Chriqui has brown eyes.
- Jimmy collected scorpions and even read Stephen Crane's Black Riders to Luc.
- Mostly a DVD release but it did have a one week theatrical release.
- Chronology: This movie was set in Lake Ravasu on the Raven Aztec reservation.
Yeah, this one just bored me rigid. A miscast lead actor, a leaden love story and Satanic worshipping villains poorly executed. The Crow: Wicked Prayer was a pure exercise in tedium.
Rating: 4 out of 10
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