It has taken me a while to get round to watching The Raven. I missed it at the cinema, then it was unavailable on video rental for some reason. I finally caught it on TV over Christmas. It wasn't worth the wait.
This is one of those films who's premise is appealing but which just doesn't deliver.
A killer is copying Edgar Allan Poe's stories. Poe is enlisted by the police to help. It all gets very personal. The story is sold as a fictionalised explanation of Poe's real unexplained death.
But it doesn't work. I thought the acting was OK and the sets were good. But there is no tension. It just bobs from one scene to the next. The characters don't develop at all. Poe seems insane at the beginning and just stays that way. The policeman is vaguely interesting, but no more. The villain is boring. The ending is boring.
Total disappointment.
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