The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Plot synopsis:
James "Jimmy" Cuervo (Edward Furlong), paroled after serving a prison sentence for killing a rapist in a fight, lives with his dog in a mobile home in Lake Ravasu on the Raven Aztec reservation. Jimmy plans to start a new life with his girlfriend, Lily (Emmanuelle Chriqui), and leave the town for good. Lily's priest father, Harold (Danny Trejo), and Lily's brother, local cop Tanner (Dave Ortiz), both despise Jimmy, however.
The town is home to a Satanic biker gang led by escaped convict Luc "Death" Crash (David Boreanaz) and his fiancée Lola Byrne (Tara Reid). Along with their three confederates "Pestilence" (Yuji Okumoto), "Famine" (Tito Ortiz) and "War" (Marcus Chong), Luc and Lola murder Lily and Jimmy in a brutal ritual that they hope will conjure the rebirth of the Antichrist. The ritual includes removing Lily's eyes — bestowing precognitive powers upon Lola — and Jimmy's heart. They dump the bodies inside an old freezer.
The Crow then appears and returns Jimmy to life. Jimmy discovers his newfound invincibility after attempting to shoot himself. He takes Lily's body and leaves it on her bed so it can be found. Tanner and Harold find the body and assume it was Jimmy who killed Lily.
On the night of a local festivity, Jimmy dons a gothic costume and make-up he wore to the celebration a previous year. He finds and kills Pestilence in a bar. He then seizes the hearse carrying Lily's body, and buries her near the tree where he carved a love symbol for them both. Jimmy goes to a casino and kills Famine in front of Luc. A fight ensues between Jimmy and Luc during which the crow, the source of Jimmy's power, is injured, thereby weakening Jimmy. Tanner finds Jimmy and accuses him of killing Lily, but Jimmy shows Tanner telepathically what really happened.
Luc and Lola visit El Niño (Dennis Hopper), the head of their order, at a Catholic church which has been abandoned by Christians and has been modified for use by the satanic cult. Tanner and Harold and a group of men assemble outside to confront them. As El Niño is performing the marriage ceremony that will bring Luc closer to the power he craves, Jimmy, Tanner, Harold, and the other men arrive and shoot War. El Niño completes the ceremony as Jimmy enters the church. Luc, now a host for Lucifer himself, telekinetically hangs Jimmy from a cross, while Lola kills El Niño. Luc and Lola leave the church and head to a nearby burial ground where they must consummate their ritual before sunrise in order for Lucifer to fully manifest.
Harold, Tanner, and the others free Jimmy, who tells them the crow is dying. In order to heal the bird and restore Jimmy's powers, Harold performs the Crow Dance. Weakened, Jimmy heads to the graveyard and stops Luc from having sex with Lola. Luc and Jimmy engage in a fight and the revived crow returns, restoring Jimmy's invulnerability. The sun rises and Luc's ritual is destroyed. Jimmy then kills Luc by impaling him on a wooden spike and cutting his throat. Lola loses her sight and tries to repent by praying to the Virgin Mary, but it is too late: Harold apprehends her and takes her to prison. Jimmy and Lily's spirits find each other in the afterlife.

Tags: comedy, suspenseful, gothic, murder, neo noir, paranormal, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, humor, romantic, tragedy, revenge, sadist

Review:
I don't think it was his fault; what he could do, he did do but the role just didn't have much.The plot is lacking seriously, the mythology is entirely corrupted (The Crows power does NOT come from love thank you very much), and the fight scenes, aside from the initial murder, are pathetic.Which is a shame really because there was a half hearted effort to make the four bad guys, Famine, Pestilence, War and Death more than just another series of bad guys like T-Bird's gang, and Curve's boys or those cops in the underrated third movie.
Not, at least, without my jaw hitting the floor before I follow after holding my ribs in a fit of hysterics.I was incredibly sceptical of Eddie Furlong in the title role but heard good things from the crew on the film and, having seen him in the irony mask, felt my concern ebb.
Everything from the look of the film, the characters (especially Lee as the Crow), the phenomenal soundtrack and the overall story of love being stronger than death - I was hooked!
Badly acted, badly filmed, badly directed and very badly written!I love the first movie, but I have not yet seen the second two...
Just plain old bad) Edward, David, Tara, Danny and Dennis all reach a new low in this movie..
I think I blame the writers) Also; David, Danny, Edward and Tara have all appeared in good movies before, proving their ability to act...
Back in the day Alex Proyas brought us the relatively low budget actioner The crow, after that a sequel that wasn't too bad followed, after that yet another not great but not too terrible sequel came...and now this.What on earth went wrong, and why was this movie ever made?
It is one thing making a bad movie that had the potential of being a good movie, but this movie never had potential whatsoever.It was awful to watch, the script were terrible and it was almost as if the director wasn't quite sure what he wanned the movie to look like, he tried to give it a 2000's MTV hip-hop feel in the beginning and then tried to do something quite different and then everything went to hell and everything got so cheesy that I only needed a patty and a bun and I would have had a cheeseburger, it actually bordered on slapstick comedy.Yes this film should not be watched and its lightyears away from the classic helmed by Alex Proyas..
David Boreanaz's over-the-top, Nicholson-esquire performance doesn't help matters, and Edward Furlong simply doesn't have the acting chops or the charisma to make up for the film's numerous flaws.
How wrong i was the plot makes no sense at all, unlike the original film the actors are all wooden and seem to have no sense of what the legacy and style of the Crow is all about.
My almost top ten favorite movie is since I'm 14 "The Crow" with B.Lee. I love it too much, to say there is a good sequel from it.
No. David Boreanez is a great actor, I think he did an amazing job as Angel in Buffy and Angel, Tara Reid is great in all her other movies...
The special effects were lousy to say the least and it seemed the director was too interested I'm piling up the body count than making a genuine love/revenge story that the entire crow fiction centres upon.I honestly have to steer people away, as only the true die-hard fans would want to see it, for the sake of saying they have seen it.
However there were some good performances considering a poor script and talented acting by Furlong and in some ways Boreanaz made the movie worth watching.
Looks like David Boreanaz is already type-cast as the wise cracking evil cool dude maybe he should have swapped characters with Furlong to rid himself of this mould.Tara Reid walks around trying to be the evil witch but her talents lie in her looks not her acting ability.
Dennis Hopper, well , devil worshipping homeboy very strange casting.Overall not a great movie but no great disgrace to the genre .Watch it and make your own mind up its worth 90 minutes..
Furlong did an excellent job especially, he really was a sort of angry/ apathetic crow hybrid, and i was very impressed.Contrary to the first reviewer, I think the only bad thing about this flick WAS Dennis Hopper, I don't know if it was how he was scripted, if he ad libbed, or if they just cast the wrong person, either way, you will find yourself asking the timeless question, "what the ****?" See it, and pay for it, especially if you are a fan and you'd like to see quality sequels made, when they are actually good it's up to us to support what we demand when it's delivered.
Brandon Lee's Crow will always be toppers, but this movie is so different, so fresh, how can you compare and call it crap unless you're just stuck on the original.
What was the idea?" - Top Dollar (Michael Wincott) in the original "The Crow"So, a murdered ex-con comes back from the dead, paints himself up like a member of the KISS Army, and goes after the Satanic cult that killed him and his girlfriend - a cult led by the blonde girl from "American Pie" and the guy from "Bones".
That, and the late Brandon Lee's iconic performance, made the film a wonderful experience, one of those rare movies you can watch over and over again, each time finding something new.Then Edward R.
"The Crow: Wicked Prayer" has the dubious distinction of being far and away the worst of these sequels.A certain amount of melodrama is to be expected in the revenge movie genre, but "Wicked Prayer" is as histrionic as a teenager's dream journal.
Should you actually decide to watch this movie, it's my duty to warn you that you'll have to listen to lines like "Revenge is easy - forgetting is hard", "You owe me two lives and a pair of perfect blue eyes", and my personal favorite, "Quoth the raven nevermore, motherf---er!".It doesn't help that director Lance Muniga doesn't seem to know the difference between a film and a music video; he substitutes explosions, pointless jump cuts and imitation "Matrix" fight choreography for plot, character and dialog.He doesn't know how to cast or work with actors, either.
Edward Furlong is horribly miscast as an undead avenger: he pouts, whines, and looks like a trick-or-treater in the Crow makeup.
And poor Dennis Hopper just looks embarrassed in a cameo as a Satanic priest who speaks in Ebonics ("The devil will be your homey forevermore!").Like the "Jaws" sequels and the Joel Schumacher "Batman" movies, "The Crow: Wicked Prayer" is depressing to watch.
Even Danny trejo surprised me with his subtlety, i felt him, i liked that no one was a clear good or bad, especially the crow.
I think Edward is a great actor and he portrayed the crow character with great emotion and talent, and to me it turned out to be a great movie.
Rather great original telling of the crow mythology-Furlong was amazing in the film....
He's got a life-long fan in me thanks to "ANGEL", and I will continue to support anything he does, including his upcoming series "Bones".The film was all right, a bit sloppy in places, a few plot points (such as the past history of the characters) could have been explained a little more, and I understand the budget wasn't very high, but damn if Boreanaz steals the show with an intense insanity that is a joy to watch.
I saw this movie after reading the novel that it was supposed to be based off of and follow-yet what they did to it was massacre it to a point of which you cannot reognize anything about the bookThe Acting was terrible, over dramatized and hammed up every second to make you pretty much wanna jam a pencil through your eardrums so you wouldn't have to listen to it anymore, and well as jus was all around terribly and damn well goofy.Edward Furlong was a Terrible Crow, David Borneanz-sucked...no other words to describe it, and Tara Reid-well shes Tara Reid-she was horrible what do you expect.I watched this once on Video then had to sit through it again with friends and nearly used some blunt metal object to knock myself out to spare me from enduring it.Overall this is generally crappy movie-not worth the money that was used to make it....some of the pple who were in this movie should have their careers buried along with this trash of a movie...(Tara)let the story end here-they've massacred the legacy behind the story, and I'm sure anyone that is a fan of the movies and/or graphic novel will surely agree this film needs to be burned and buried to never be found.
Set in the Southwest, the fourth film of the Crow tells the story of an ex-con Jimmy Cuervo (Edward Furlong) and his girl-friend Lily (Emmanuelle Chriqui).
Most disappointing thing of the movie is Dennis Hopper is a real under-written role in a bit part is a waste, too bad.
This doesn't work either because the bad guys are not interesting or evil enough to really spend time focusing on.The other crow films featured outstanding villains and more of a sense of reason for killing them.
The other villains have back-stories, sure, but they don't have any spirit in their parts.Speaking of which, the normally good Dennis Hopper is terrible in this film as an annoying Ebonics worshiping boss man.
There is some light sexual content, though on nudity, or anything like that.Substance Abuse: There is a scene in which the characters get high off of peyote, but it is done in a very stylish way.Overall: The Crow: Wicked Prayer is by far the best of the sequels.
"Caw Caw, Bang, F**k, I'm Dead!" It was about three years ago that I first saw the CROW, and I instantly fell in love with Brandon Lee. So being the obsessed movie nut that I am, I went out and rented the two sequels that were out.
Tara Reid was really creepy in this movie playing the bad guy with David B..
I was skeptical at first, but aside from the obvious over-use of the lines used in the other films "To make things right" etc., and the hokeyness of how those words were put into the film, I would say overall the film ranked a good 8 out of 10 in my book.The Crow: City of Angels, in my opinion was worse than Wicked Prayer in my opinion, but I still have a love for them all.I read one reviewers statement here about not having the funds for makeup.
In fact each movie is different from the other, with a common thread, but different story line.If anyone rents or buys this DVD,be sure to look at the making of the film,and all the "extras" before watching the film to get a good idea of what the director, crew, and actors were thinking while making this movie.Oddly, this series of films rate far better with me than re-makes we are getting of classic television shows and films of the past.
Yes, we all know City of Angels was horrible compared to the original and due to the story being slightly related to the original(through Sarah) it was bound to come off badly but then Salvation was an unrelated story about a different crow and though it had some bad acting and cheesy lines in places...i still enjoyed it for the fact it was a separate story and i think that is the key.
Eddie Furlong did a good job as a believable person trying to come to terms with what has happened to him and the majority of the other actors did OK though Dennis Hopper's character was fairly awful surprisingly.
Imagine a "Crow" movie in where Dennis Hopper appears as a Satanic priest who speaks like an 80's kid that is trying to emulate a 50's greaser (that's the best explanation I have).
Devolution at it's absolute worst...David Boreanaz as the arch villain in a Crow movie?
I've seen deeper, more exciting Burger King commercials.Edward Furlong was actually creepy and passively interesting enough to have made a pretty good "Crow", but unfortunately he was far too bogged down by idiotic writing, poor direction, lousy stunt choreography, derivative costuming, horrible production values, and a sheepish budget to have effectively gotten any revision of the character properly off of the ground.
I think that he may have been able to go places with this character - had his creative vehicle been slightly better than a rusted out junker with four flat tires.The entire movie seemed like it was written and shot in a single afternoon.
Edward Furlong and David Boreanaz put forth the best acting effort in the movie, the music was pretty good and so was the plot.
I will still agree with some reviews and say YES, it was an incredibly bad idea to put Dennis Hopper as a pimp in a Crow film.
even the third one).it lacked atmosphere(flashbacks in glowing green and red does not count as atmosphere).it lacked acting.it feels like a poor direct to video sequel.I admit, it had it's moments.the murder scene lacked the shock factor.i'm very sad that this is what happened to the crow series.
The Crow Wicked Prayer is a very different movie than the other three.
I was wrong; The Crow Salvation is probably even closer to the original two movies than The Crow Wicked Prayer.I watched it once, and I am going to finally buy it.
Eddie Fingerlongerer looks like a weird lizard (a weird lizard that can't act, that is), and any love that David Bornoreaz and Tara Reid might have might have generated from previous roles (Angel and Josie and The Pussycats, respectively) will be sorely tested by this film.Special mention must go to Dennis Hopper and Macy Gray (you heard me) who must have been way behind on the rent or had just recently developed an expensive drug habit.
Edward Furlong is the kind of anti-hero in a sense, bit of a bad ass (then again isn't that what the crow is about?) and he pulls it off big style looking to revenge the foes who took away his true love.
Like I said the kindest thing I can say about this movie is it's not as bad as 'City of Angels', take that as a warning and stay away..
I've seen nativity plays with better performances.Edward Furlong as the crow?
but these people know better than this.The attempts to define the characters of War, Famine, and Pestilence were worse than a B movie horror flick made by film students.If you love the crow as a character don't watch this...it ruins it.
However, after watching this flick, City of Angels seems as though it is worth a million bucks.Now this film actually seems like it was made by a 16 year old fan of The Crow who cooked up a script after school.
Really poor Dialogue Laughable Characters Bad Directing And just about anything else that makes a bad movie worse.So please watch this film.
being such a huge fan of the first 'Brandon Lee' crow movie by Alex Proyas, it has been hard to watch the subsequent releases come out onto DVD and tarnish the work completed on the first.
Wicked Prayer rushes through a lot of the important parts of the film that make up each Crow movie and the acting from Furlong and Reid is abysmal.
At first when I heard they were making this movie, I though David Boreanaz was going to be the next Crow.
Native Americans believe in spirits like this so it nice to see a crow film about it's origins.
Where Brandon Lee portrayed an painful soul brought back to avenge his love, Furlong is portraying an little brat coming into puberty, worst performance everReally sad to see The Crow franchise getting buried in this way, sometimes its better to stop on a good note, than to keep playing until everyone is fleeing..
From the Crow being a messenger of God (since when?) to him having to fight Satan (even though David Boreanaz character doesn't change at all) Edward Furlong actually seems like he might had been a good Crow if he was given a better script and if he laid off the drugs.
I am a fan of the TV shows, "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," so I was totally psyched about David Boreanaz being in this movie: what a disappointment.The story leaves a lot to be desired, the direction was terrible, sets & costumes were unbelievably bad and the performances could have been phoned in.
Even my favorite, David Boreanaz, put in the worst performance I've ever seen from him.Don't bother watching this unless you are a huge fan of the Crow series.
What can I say about this film, I just looked at the trailer movie looks like it was shot and ninety-two, Edward Furlong looks like a fag, Tara Ried looks like a prostitute from Las Vegas, Dennis Hooper "Please what," David Boreanza think he is Satan, "Wait a minute," the entire film seems to be actors preparing for Halloween, I did not watch film because it would be even more disappointed, because I recommend others to not watch this garbage.First Crow with Brandon Lee is awesome,but this.......................crap.
Like all fans of the original Crow movie, I've learned not to expect anything good out of the sequels.
Edward Furlong looks like an emo version of the Crow.
Tara Reid would have been a better Crow and Edward Furlong.4.
Good on its own, but not as a Crow movie.