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Edward Furlong

Tara Reid

David Boreanaz

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Dennis Hopper

Marcus Chong

Tito Ortiz

Yuji Okumoto

Dave Baez

Rena Owen

Danny Trejo

Macy Gray

Rosemberg Salgado

Ryan Smith

Daymond John

Richard Cumba

Kristina Santoro

Kelsey Daniels

Ashley Christensen

David Lea

Jorge Jimenez

Gill Medina

Marty Fresca

Vanessa Sorensen

Liz Katz

Candace Rea

Erin Balentine

Jeff Most

Jon Katz

Kurt Brabbee

Lance Mungia

Norman Partridge

Sean Hood

Gregory G. Woertz

Jamie Christopherson

Sig De Miguel

Fred Andrews

Amanda Mackey

Wendy Weidman

Mandi Line

Cathy Sandrich Gelfond

Gary Paul

Douglas Salkin

Horst Steiner

Bruce Bare

Rebecca Hunt

Liz Fairbairn

Nikki Van Pelt

Blanca Camacho

Suzzane Bingham

Alex Blatt

David Bridges

Jodi Greorge

Karrieann Heisner Sillay

Cassidy Lunnen

Whit Norris

Terry Gaertner

Geordy Sincavage

Giuliano Fiumani

Jonathan Hallett

Rey Vincente

John Goodwill

Amy Fegely

Ronald J. Webb

Michael J. Fox

Jackie Rodman

Matthew L. Henderson

Ryan Growney

Erin Lyons

Peter D. Lago

John M. Valerio

Kurt Thum

Ivy Lukas

Amy Jean Roberts

Kresta Lins

Jennifer Mullins

Trip Brock

Shantell Guy

James O'Barr

James Gregory

Effney Gardea

John Saviano

Stephen Belafonte

Dean Holland

Edward R. Pressman

Russell M. Jaeger

Beau J. Genot

Steven Avila

L.M. Kit Carson

Robert Alonzo

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The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Dimension Films

Pressman Film

Jeff Most Productions

Fubu Films

Image Comics

United States of America

Sooner rather than later every franchise ends up, by design or accident, a parody of itself; The Crow: Wicked Prayer never stood a chance of avoiding this fate, but then what movie starring Eddie Furlong, David Boreanaz, Tara Reid, and Danny Trejo would? On the other hand, we have Dennis Hopper as a pimp named El Nino who says things like "You stole daddy's car keys, but you can't handle the horsepower," so it's not a total loss.

We know that the Crow, like the Dude, must face a gang of nihilists; in this case a multi-ethnic gang whose members each identify with one of the Four Horsemen: Luc 'Death' Crash, War (Marcus Chong), Famine (Tito Ortiz), and Pestilence (Yuji Okumoto). 

None of them really do anything thematically tied to their noms de guerre, so I guess they just thought they sounded cool. By the way, in a group of characters with thematic names, sometimes one just doesn't fit the pattern (a trope known as Aerith and Bob); in this case that would be Lola (Reid), Luc's girlfriend.

Luc is the "leader of a satanic cult" whose "motive" is that his "father [was] killed by an Indian." This doesn't make much sense until we discover that Moses (Richard Cumba), the "Indian" who murdered Luc's father, is a priest of some religious denomination — Catholic in appearance but that allows its priests to marry and have children, and to which also belongs father Harold (Trejo), whose daughter Lilly (Emmanuelle Chriqui) is the girlfriend of Jimmy Cuervo (Furlong), who is on parole after serving a prison sentence for killing a rapist, who happened to be Moses’s son. It’s a small world, indeed.

War, Famine, Pestilence, and Lola help Luc escape from prison, and the five proceed to ritualistically murder Jimmy and Lilly; the rest, as they say, is history: Jimmy returns from the afterlife to exact revenge on his killers one by one, reserving for them such cruel and unusual punishments as death-by-bug zapper. 

Oddly enough, no one besides Jimmy seems interested in pursuing the escaped convict whose gang leaves a trail of blood wherever they go. Then again, this is a movie that uses the word “Aztec” to refer to a Native American tribe. 

All things considered, I’m tempted to believe that TC: WP's self-parody is intentional; for example, Luc offering his henchmen a banquet consisting of deviled ham, deviled eggs, and devil's cake “al flambeau”. I'm not saying it is to The Crow what Army of Darkness is to The Evil Dead but, incoherent or not, it's the only one apart from the original that’s even close to watchable.

So ridiculous that it's kinda watchable.

<em>'The Crow: Wicked Prayer'</em> is not a good movie. However, it commits so hard to what it wants to do that I was kinda locked on to just see where it would go next. It particularly goes off the rails towards the conclusion, especially with David Boreanaz's Luc. There are many, many issues with this 2005 release, but I honestly didn't hate viewing it.

I think what helps (relatively speaking) is that there are quite a few familiar faces on the cast, which definitely keeps you watching - or it does for me, at least. You have the aforementioned Boreanaz, as well as Tara Reid, Danny Trejo and Dennis Hopper. Emmanuelle Chriqui is in there too. The main face that I didn't know of was actually Edward Furlong, who plays the titular character.

Furlong's performance isn't, like the film in general, anything worth praising. Again though, he proper goes for it so his onscreen presence never annoyed me. Nothing about this really irritated me to be honest, it's just plainly obvious from pretty much the get-go that the flick isn't anything all that good so I guess my expectations were low.

I'd rather rewatch this than <em>'The Crow: City of Angels'</em>, so that's something. Eager to now see how this year's reboot does things.

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