The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Plot hole: After the bird is hurt, Jimmy is shot several times and wounded very badly. Yet just seconds later, he is able to save the young boy, and mysteriously use many of his "crow powers" despite being hurt very badly.

Plot hole: Even though he has lost most of his power, Jimmy is somehow able to grapple and stop War, who is covered in dynamite and explodes, presumably while being restrained by Jimmy. Jimmy doesn't even appear hurt or marked at all after the ordeal.

Plot hole: Why would Pestilence let himself be soaked in toxic chemicals in the beginning of the movie when he is out for revenge? It makes no sense that he could possibly be killing himself then and there when he wants to live a little longer.

Plot hole: All of the miners and protesters run because War has the shotgun, yet moments later, they are back as if nothing happened.

Plot hole: "Death" tells his cronies to burn the bodies of Jimmy and Lily, yet when they get to the junkyard, they put the bodies in a very heavy refrigerator, and then push it into a pool of flammable liquid, which they burn. But it could never burn through the thick metal and plastic of the fridge before it burned the bodies.

Plot hole: Everyone considers Jimmy to be evil because he accidentally killed one of the Natives, who was trying to rape Lily. Yet, you see the ordeal and there are other witnesses, so it makes no sense that nobody believes him about not doing it on purpose, and unprovoked.

Plot hole: If the protesters and miners had to simply wait for War to come through and open the fence to get at each other, they should have been able to do it themselves.

Plot hole: Why would so many toxic chemicals be used in coal mining, and used as close to the miners as illustrated in the film?

Revealing mistake: When Jimmy and War are fighting over the gun near the end of the movie, you can see that many shots are reversed, as the fire behind them is not burning upwards like regular fire, but appears to be "sucking" downwards, back into the barrels.

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Luc Crash: What happens to an angel that loses his wings?
Lola Byrne: He falls.

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Trivia: The original script for this fourth entry in the series was titled "The Crow: Lazarus." It was about a wannabe rapper (who goes by the stage-name "Lazarus") who is murdered in a drive-by, and his journey to piece together the mystery of who set him up to be killed. The film was intended to be the first movie in the series with an African America lead, and controversial rapper Eminem was intended to play the villain. After the project fell apart, the script was hastily re-written to be (very) loosely based around a 2000 novel ("Wicked Prayer") inspired by the series, and the budget was drastically slashed, resulting in this film.

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Question: Originally this fourth "Crow" film was going to be called "The Crow: Lazarus" and be about a black wannabe rapper who is brought back by the crow after a drive-by shooting. Anyone know why this plot was dropped? Because it seemed to fit the material more than a movie about Satan and God.

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.

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