Films like The Crow: City of Angels.

The Crow: City of Angels (1996) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

The 6th Day (2000) poster
1. The 6th Day2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Universal Soldier: The Return (1999) poster
2. Universal Soldier: The Return1999

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Hollow Man (2000) poster
3. Hollow Man2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Equilibrium (2002) poster
4. Equilibrium2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Underworld (2003) poster
5. Underworld2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Johnny Mnemonic (1995) poster
6. Johnny Mnemonic1995

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Underworld: Evolution (2006) poster
7. Underworld: Evolution2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) poster
8. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace1987

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Godzilla (1998) poster
9. Godzilla1998

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Time Machine (2002) poster
10. The Time Machine2002

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Doomsday (2008) poster
11. Doomsday2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Batman Forever (1995) poster
12. Batman Forever1995

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a chilly detachment.

These are The Crow: City of Angels’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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