Category: Directed by Alex Proyas

  • The Crow (1994, Alex Proyas)

    Has it been long enough since the firearms safety accident on The Crow set to point out Brandon Lee was a really bad actor and his performance in The Crow is laughably awful? Actually, I don’t care; he’s lousy and the movie’s dumb. There are good things about The Crow, which is a little surprising,…

  • Dark City (1998, Alex Proyas), the director’s cut

    I’m not sure if anything actually goes wrong with Dark City. There’s the significant music problem (Trevor Jones’s score seems more appropriate for a car commercial; it’s missing any subtext or delicacy), but there’s nothing else wrong. The acting is all fantastic–Richard O’Brien gives the best performance, making his evil alien human–and Alex Proyas composes…