Not even the paltry box-office of the first Crow sequel, City Of Angels , could kill off the series, and plans were underway for a fourth installment even as Salvation , the second Crow sequel, limped its way through a theatrical run that never exceeded a handful of theaters. Of course, the world didn't need even one Crow movie, let alone three or four. Salvation , a repugnant exercise in emptily stylish ultraviolence that plays like the longest, most expensive Rammstein video ever made. In an uncharismatic performance unlikely to make anyone forget Angels ' Vincent Perez, let alone Brandon Lee, Eric Mabius stars as a wrongly executed man who wakes up after his death, feeling invincible. Looking like a cross between a hapless Goth and the sort of sad clown depicted in black-velvet paintings, Mabius sets about avenging the deaths of himself and his girlfriend by brutally murdering a ring of corrupt police officers in unimaginative but gory ways.
Salvation marks a nadir for a series that was never especially good to begin with.
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