Continuity mistake: After bringing the priest back to life, in the first shot his wife's head is pointed down, crying, and in the second shot it is suddenly pointed up, and then looks down again.
Continuity mistake: When the bartender leaps over the counter at Jimmy, in the first shot, Jimmy has his back to him, but when it cuts, he is suddenly facing the bartender coming at him.
Continuity mistake: When Lily's father starts crying, before his son comes to him, in one shot he is holding the bible and it is slanted forward, yet in the next shot, it is pointed straight up.
Continuity mistake: At "Rick E. Raven's" pizzeria, when Lily's father is giving his speech, as he says, "I said, 'Stay away from them, stay on your side of the road.'" He goes from his head pointed forward in one shot, to his head pointing slightly upward in the next shot.
Continuity mistake: Jimmy comes out of his trailer in the beginning with two bags. He kicks one aside and starts to walk away. Then a few seconds later, he is carrying one bag, has some object in his other hands that we have never seen, and is wearing sunglasses he did not have on before.
Continuity mistake: When Jimmy is looking at his reflection in the toaster, in one shot, he is looking with his hands on the ground, but in the next shot, he is suddenly touching his face with his hands while looking into it.
Continuity mistake: When Jimmy and Lily embrace in the beginning, their arms change position in almost every shot.
Continuity mistake: Death's one thug puts baseball gear on but in the next series of shots, he goes from wearing it all, to wearing none, to wearing some of it between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Luc is kicking Jimmy at the end, in one particular shot, Jimmy is on the ground, on his stomach, but in the next shot, he is on his side.
Continuity mistake: Several of Luc's cronies have blood on their bodies/faces back at the hideout despite nothing happening to get blood on them earlier.
Continuity mistake: When Jimmy meets Pestilence at the bar, when he starts to cough, in the first shot, his whole body moves, but in the second shot, he is perfectly still, and we just hear the coughing.
Continuity mistake: When Pestilence opens the refrigerator at the dump, his cigarette goes from being in his hand to in his mouth between cuts.
Continuity mistake: When Jimmy is on the bike, Lily's brother (driving the police car), who is following him, disappears in one of the shots.
Continuity mistake: When Lola is washing her hands, the position of her hands and head changes position between shots. In some shots her head is pointed forwards and her hands are up, in others her head is down as are her hands.
Continuity mistake: The necklaces that Luc throws onto Jimmy at the end disappear after the first few shots.
Continuity mistake: When Jimmy is talking to Lily's brother in the beginning, in one shot he is wiping dirt from his sleeve, and in the next shot, you can tell from his movement that he is no longer doing so.
Continuity mistake: During the climax, when Jimmy says "Don't you have any respect for the dead?" In the first shot he is behind the totem pole, but in the next shot, he is standing next to the totem pole.
Continuity mistake: When Luc kicks Jimmy for the first time at the end of the movie, the position of his body kicking Jimmy changes a bit between cuts.
Continuity mistake: Jimmy's sunglasses suddenly disappear as he is walking with the Indians in the beginning of the movie.
Continuity mistake: Lily's brother points the gun at Jimmy in the beginning and pulls the trigger to reveal there are no bullets in it, then he lowers it. But in the next shot it is still up and he lowers it a second time.
Answer: As I understand it, it all had to do with a spat between the director of the original Crow movie (Alex Proyas, who had "approval" of all the subsequent Crow movies) the producer of the Crow movie franchise, Jeff Most, and Miramax. Miramax eventually caved in favor of the producer and it was made into a "non-Crow entity" when Miramax reportedly signed Eminem to play the bad guy.