In the decades since Bogey played the downbeat investigator in The Big Sleep (l945), no improvements have been noted. Liam Neeson is a fine actor, especially on stage, but he’s too frayed around the edges and long in the chops to be mistaken for a debonair gumshoe, although not as hopelessly baggy as the woefully miscast Elliot Gould in The Long Goodbye (1973). In every incarnation, Marlowe has always been hired by a beautiful, dangerous, and bafflingly mysterious femme fatale who wants him to find a missing person. This time it’s an heiress ( Diane Kruger ) and the daughter of a hard-boiled film star ( Jessica Lange ) who enlists his services to find an ex-lover named Nico, one of the kingpins in the Hollywood underworld. Ironies build, narrow escapes accelerate, and familiar fisticuffs multiply, to little avail, in William Monaghan’s yawning screenplay.
Not many filmmakers know how to make a film noir any more. Black and white camera work would help, but I don’t see any remedy to Liam Neeson’s bland expressions or indifferent line readings. In the clinches with Diane Kruger, there isn’t a shred of the sexy chemistry that turned Bogart and Bacall onto household names in The Big Sleep, and nothing happens you haven’t already seen orchestrated in keener and far superior films, such as Edward Dmytryk’s Murder, My Sweet and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. Random characters appear to revisit early Hollywood locations, including a shady club owner (Danny Huston), a wealthy ambassador (Mitchell Mullen), a collector of rare and priceless antiques (Alan Cumming), and the missing man’s tortured sister (Daniela Melchior). They all waft in and out of incoherent subplots, contributing nothing important or fascinating to the narrative.
Liam Neeson is the dullest denizen of this particularly unctuous Hollywood After Dark. As Marlowe, he uncovers the usual blackmail, grand larceny, homicide and other crimes corrupting the klieg light rays of Southern California, without much energy or wit. Distilled from the 2014 novel The Black Eyed Blonde by John Banville, writing under the pen name Benjamin Black, this movie isn’t even original Raymond Chandler, and a great opportunity has been missed to bathe a film noir in the brittle ambience of old Hollywood, ignoring the glamour and decadence so beautifully captured in colorful films of the same period ( Farewell My Lovely and L.A. Confidential, to name just two). Marlowe is set in 1939, but it was filmed in Barcelona and Dublin, of all places, erasing its most valuable character—Los Angeles—and leaving the viewer under-stimulated by an oversexed pulp fiction hero who shrugs his way through it looking bored. His sleuthing is reduced to uncover the answers to only three vital questions: “Whose ashes are filling Nico’s urn?” “Why?” And “Does anybody care?”
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I saw the lukewarm reviews, but none of the complaints seemed egregious and I like film noir so I decided to see it last night.
Theatre experience was fine; last time I went the seats were gross, but they were fine this time.
Everything about the film was fine or incredibly mediocre. It felt very uninspired and soulless. The story is OK, but not compelling. The characters are interesting. The acting is well done. Costumes and sets are fun. And its got a lot of stars in it that will have you going "I remember them!" The script is very bleh. Putting all this together leaves you in a constant state of expecting something and never quite meeting those expectations, only to be led into another scene.
I wanted a grizzled and cynical detective, but Marlowe is very competent and straight to the point with no endearing lines or an overly jaded narrative.
It felt like they were just going through the motions and checking the boxes. "Remember how depressing Chinatown's ending was? Lets do that!" Ok done and move on to the next story beat. None of those big hits or reveals felt very impactful. I also watched Babylon recently, so the "old hollywood icons coming to terms with fading away" felt very flat in comparison too.
Also, trying to push 60 year old Liam Neeson as a sexy and intimidating hulk of a man just wasn't working for me. There was one scene in particular of a woman swooning for him, but he's such a gentleman and they just dance. I thought they were going to add to the story or reveal some information but no. Its literally just this girl horning after Neeson's character and there's obviously no chemistry so its just out of place. And the constant "WOAHMAGAWD he's hooge!!" from the henchman felt unnecessary.
Overall the movie is JUST ok. But its just so bland that just OK feels incredibly unsatisfying. There were 3 other people in the audience with me. At the end I stood up and asked them what they thought, and one of them stormed passed me saying "IT SUCKED! it was a waste of my time" and honestly... I'm not sure I disagree.
Best part of the movie:
"how do you say this in Spanish?" *blows them away with a tommy gun*
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"i'm surprised": the crow 2024 producer responds to criticism from original 1994 movie director, the crow 2024 cast & character guide.
The early responses for the latest big-screen reimagining of The Crow are in, and it continues an unfortunate trend from the franchise’s later movies. Helmed by Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders, and starring Bill Skarsgård as the latest actor to step into the role of James O’Barr’s resurrected comic book vigilante, the new movie follows in the footsteps of the 1994 cult classic adaptation starring Brandon Lee. While Lee would tragically lose his life during production on the original movie, The Crow franchise would continue with three additional sequels and a 1999 television reboot.
With the 2024 version of The Crow now officially in theaters, early reactions have painted a grim picture for the franchise’s latest movie. Currently sitting at 21% on Rotten Tomatoes from 42 reviews , the movie’s early critical score falls well short of the 86% fresh rating enjoyed by the original.
However, as disappointing as that score may seem, it is still a minor improvement over the dismal scores held by the franchise’s assorted sequels . Check out the franchise’s current scores below:
Title | Critical Score | Audience Score |
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(1994) | 86% | 90% |
(1996) | 14% | 40% |
(1999) | 20% | 55% |
(2000) | 18% | 43% |
(2005) | 0% | 34% |
(2024) | 21% | Not yet available |
Every attempt to follow the original has stumbled.
Few movies hold such a treasured place in pop culture history as the original version of The Crow . Hauntingly beautiful, and heartbreakingly inseparable from the real-life tragedy surrounding its making , its place as a much-beloved cult favorite is well-earned. Yet, where 1994’s version of The Crow would come to be widely accepted as one of the best comic book adaptations ever made, it seems that every attempt to follow in its footsteps would ultimately fall well short of the original movie starring Lee.
Of course, it is still very early days yet, and The Crow’ s Rotten Tomatoes score will likely continue to fluctuate as more reviews begin coming in for the movie.
Even in the lead-up to this latest reimagining, it seemed for a long time that a new Crow movie might never happen. Passing between multiple hands, and with plans to cast everyone from Bradley Cooper to Jason Momoa in the leading role, The Crow’s protracted development process was fraught with a nearly endless supply of setbacks and false-starts. With this kind of history in mind, it is even more disappointing to see the latest version also struggle to strike a chord with critics.
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Of course, it is still very early days yet, and The Crow’ s Rotten Tomatoes score will likely continue to fluctuate as more reviews begin coming in for the movie. However, given the controversial response that Skarsgård’s heavily tattooed Eric already received from prospective viewers, these less-than-positive reviews do not paint an optimistic picture for the movie’s general audience response either. It would seem, at least for now, that the 1994 version of The Crow will remain unmatched by any other attempt to follow in its enormous footsteps.
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The Crow (2024) is a dark and gritty reimagining of the original graphic novel. It follows Eric, who is resurrected from the dead to avenge his and his soulmate’s brutal murders. Armed with supernatural abilities, Eric seeks justice against the killers responsible, navigating through a corrupt city that is as much a character as he is. This adaptation introduces new elements to captivate the modern audience.
By Tamal Kundu
The reviews for The Crow , the 2024 adaptation of James O’Barr’s comic book series of the same name, are coming out — and they are far from flattering. This film, one of the most highly-anticipated releases of the year, is the second direct cinematic adaptation of O’Barr’s source material after the 1994 movie, featuring Brandon Lee.
The Crow debuted in the U.S. theaters on August 23, and the reviews it has been receiving paint a rather grim picture.
Benjamin Lee of The Guardian called The Crow “a total, head-in-hands disaster,” adding the film is “incoherently plotted and sloppily made, destined to join the annals of the very worst and most pointless remakes ever made.”
Meanwhile, Inverse’s Lyvie Scott wrote that The Crow sought to update the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, but it was ultimately restrained by its source material. “What starts as a compelling love story ends up choked by a gory, gruesome tale of revenge: there are glimmers of brilliance here and there, but there’s not always room for the dark to mingle with the light,” Scott elaborated.
Derek Smith of Slant Magazine gave the 2024 film credits for not being a “rehash” of the previous adaptation, but went on to criticize the “superfluous, hackneyed backstory and narrative threads,” which he believed “are conspicuous for their lack of emotional gravitas, causing the film to feel like a wheel-spinning exercise.”
In the midst of all this criticism, the Rupert Sanders directorial venture has received a few positive responses from professional reviewers. Discussing Film’s Bill Bria acknowledged that The Crow has flaws but argued that it has its share of wonderful moments as well. “Make no mistake: The Crow (2024) is flawed and will probably not win over diehard fans of the classic 1994 movie, but it’s the bright spots in between those flaws that keep it from being dull or forgettable,” Bria observed.
The Crow has garnered abysmal scores both on the aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, which rates films via a weighted average. On Rotten Tomatoes , The Crow has a 21% approval rating after 42 reviews, while the gothic superhero movie has accumulated a score of 29 after 18 reviews on Metacritic .
As implied above, there had been considerable buzz around the movie. Accordingly, even though the film has performed poorly with the critics, it still can do well at the box office, both in the U.S. and internationally. Now, how it performs at the box office remains to be seen.
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The ‘borderlands’ movie debuts with a 0% on rotten tomatoes (update).
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I’m not sure I knew of anyone, Borderlands fan or not, who believed that the movie adaptation of the game was going to be good, based on everything from casting to trailers. Now as reviews come in ahead of its release tomorrow, those fears have been validated. And then some.
As I write this, the Borderlands movie has a flat 0% on Rotten Tomatoes . No positive reviews whatsoever ( Update : A single positive review has come in raising it to a 3%), and the ones that are in are not just negative, but brutal . Here’s a sampling:
It’s true there are not many reviews in yet, and the score may tick up, but everything I’ve seen outside of some video game influencers who attended premieres (or are literally extras in the movie) has been relentlessly negative, and I would be surprised to find more than a handful of positive reviews come in when all is said and done. If any.
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A 0% on Rotten Tomatoes is of course as low as you can go. If we are looking at the worst-scored video game movies ever made, that list would now be (Updated list with the 4%):
I put the year there so you can see that most of these ultra-terrible ones are in a decade or so when making a good video game adaptation was borderline impossible and the only people trying were directors like Uwe Boll half the time. As of late, we have seen very solid live action video game adaptations on both film (Sonic) and TV (The Last of Us, Fallout), and Borderlands seems to be a 10-15 year step backward.
I do expect it to rise above a zero percent. There are so many critics on Rotten Tomatoes of questionable quality and taste that probably someone will like it and knock it above some of these (I am one of those critics, so no judgement), but that has not happened at the time of this writing.
Who saw this coming? Everyone. Everyone did. And here we are.
Update (8/10): We have 92 reviews in now, and Borderlands has gone from 0% to 3% to now settling at around 10%. This puts it outside much higher on the “worst video game adaptations ever” list, which would now look like
Of course there is absolutely no pretending a 10% is good. I do agree, however, that it does not deserve to be quite as low as that terrible decade of Uwe Boll movies and a few other very poor ones. Like no, this is definitely not on par with Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
I have indeed now seen the movie myself, and a 10% is something I can get behind. My own negative review is now on Rotten Tomatoes, and here’s an excerpt:
“This is neither a good Borderlands movie or nor a good movie, period. It feels like Gearbox and Eli Roth tried to split the difference here, making a mass-appeal PG-13 action film but gesturing vaguely at the games to try to get that crowd to show up too.
But the end result is throwing the Borderlands games at a wall, watching them shatter, and gluing back together a handful of mildly recognizable pieces.”
I said in the piece that the casting of Kevin Hart and Cate Blanchett are big problems, as expected. Hart mostly acts like a barely toned-down version of his usual self, and is nothing like game Roland. Blanchett is of course normally a great actress but a 30 year or so age increase from Lilith is bizarre, and also makes no sense within the confines of the film as actresses close to her age appear to remember her as a child.
This is a franchise killer. Gearbox had big plans for a Borderlands cinematic universe that is clearly going nowhere after this. And given how this went, that is fully justified.
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The debut Rotten Tomatoes score has been revealed for The Crow , the latest adaptation of the original comic book by James O'Barr. Featuring Bill Skarsgard and FKA twigs in the lead roles, the new adaptation was directed by Rupert Sanders.
Shortly after the embargo lift for The Crow , the film debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with a very low score of 6% . This number is likely to fluctuate a bit as more reviews continue to be submitted in the coming days, but with a rough debut score that's very close to rock bottom, it doesn't seem likely to climb much higher. The current score is a far cry from the one garnered by the original 1994 adaptation , which has an 86% approval rating along with a 90% audience score. An audience score hasn't yet been determined for the new version of The Crow , and there's a chance that it could be given a much higher number in comparison, as sometimes happens with critics and audiences.
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The current score for the new film is obviously not great, but it's not the lowest of the franchise, sparing the new movie from hitting a new low fo rthe movie series. After the original film from 1994, the other installments of the franchise includes 1996's The Crow: City of Angels at 14% , 2000's The Crow: Salvation at 18% , and 2005's The Crow: Wicked Prayer at 0% . The reviews for the 2024 film may be mostly negative, but having any positive reviews at all has ensured that it will stay above Wicked Prayer ..
"Brandon Lee’s original was hard to shake because of his untimely demise. This forgettable new version doesn’t just fail to honor his memory -- it never justifies its existence on its own merits," reads one review by Tim Grierson of Screen International . David Rooney of THR also said of the film, " The Crow is a sluggish, overly self-serious gloomfest that never takes wing ."
The new adaptation of The Crow looks to be a bit more graphic than the 1994 movie.
Giving the film a score of 1 out of 5 stars, Guardian reviewer Benjamin Lee noted, " The Crow 2.0 is a total, head-in-hands disaster , incoherently plotted and sloppily made, destined to join the annals of the very worst and most pointless remakes ever made."
...destined to join the annals of the very worst and most pointless remakes ever made.
Directed by Rupert Sanders, The Crow is written by Zach Baylin and William Schneider. The film stars Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston, Josette Simon, Laura Birn, and Sami Bouajila.
The official synopsis for the movie reads, "Soulmates Eric (Skarsgård) and Shelly (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right."
The Crow officially premieres in theaters on Aug. 23, 2024.
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Not helped by the cringy writing/dialogue. No one talks like that! 22 percent on rottentomatoes is hardly "lukewarm reviews". When 78 percent of critics say "no it's not worth watching" maybe it's just not worth watching. It takes a Chandler to make a Marlowe. Let's imagine a movie that takes place in a movie theater.
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Currently sitting at 21% on Rotten Tomatoes from 42 reviews, the movie's early critical score falls well short of the 86% fresh rating enjoyed by the original. However, as disappointing as that score may seem, it is still a minor improvement over the dismal scores held by the franchise's assorted sequels. Check out the franchise's current ...
On Rotten Tomatoes, The Crow has a 21% approval rating after 42 reviews, while the gothic superhero movie has accumulated a score of 29 after 18 reviews on Metacritic.
A 0% on Rotten Tomatoes is of course as low as you can go. If we are looking at the worst-scored video game movies ever made, that list would now be (Updated list with the 4%): Alone in the Dark ...
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The first reviews for director Rupert Sanders' reboot, which stars Bill Skarsgård in the role made famous by the late Brandon Lee, started roll in on Thursday evening, at the same time that The ...
The debut Rotten Tomatoes score has been revealed for The Crow, the latest adaptation of the original comic book by James O'Barr. Featuring Bill Skarsgard and FKA twigs in the lead roles, the new adaptation was directed by Rupert Sanders. Shortly after the embargo lift for The Crow, the film debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with a very low score of 6 ...