I first saw The Crow when I was 16. I saw it in the theater with my friend, Martin. It's a good movie. Ok, I love the movie. It's among my favorites. When The Crow: City of Angels came out, I saw it on video. It was bad. Really bad. It was an insult to the memory of Brandon Lee. Then they made a TV series. That was just dumb. It was horribly inconsistant, and just plain awful. When I heard about the third movie, I wasn't expecting much at all. I'll try to bring you up to speed if you haven't seen the other two.
In the first one, Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) is brutally murdered after coming home to his fiancee, Shelly Webster, being gang-raped. She gets murdered too. It was the day before their wedding. One year later, Eric comes back from the dead, and paints his face. He reunites with his friend, Sarah (for who he was a sort of surrogate father) and meets the Officer Albrecht, the cop who investigated his murder (although he wasn't supposed to). Eric goes through Detroit and finds the men who raped and murdered Shelly. He kills them and their boss, and reunites Sarah with her mother. In the end, Eric can die in peace, and he's reunited with Shelly.
In the second one, Ashe Corven (Vincent Perez) and his son are brutally murdered. Ashe has to come back to paint his face and avenge his son, and, wouldn't you know, he meets Sarah, who's an old hand at this. Ashe kills the bad guys and dies. So does Sarah. That brings us to the third one.
Alex Corvis is on death row for murdering his girlfriend, Lauren Randall. He gets the electric chair, and his face is charred. In a scene straight from Hannibal, Alex peels off his face and, lo and behold, the scars are in the same pattern as the original Crow makeup. He escapes the morgue and goes to find the man with the scarred arm, who killed his beloved Lauren. He meets her sister, Erin, played by Kirsten Dunst, and they learn that their father was somehow involved with a group of police officers who killed her (and evidently some other people too). So, the cops kill Alex's lawyer (played by Grant Shaud of Murphy Brown) and Erin and Lauren's dad. As it turns out, the police chief has the scarred arm, but Alex is fooled when he has a decoy arm planted in a fire. We later find out the decoy arm was the lawyer's. So, Alex thinks his job is done, and he becomes mortal again. Turns out he's wrong, so he becomes immortal to save Erin and kill the police chief. Only then does he die.
The movie wasn't really all that bad. I'd even say it was a worthy sequel. It had its stupid, cheesy, campy moments, but, as a whole, it didn't suck. It wasn't nearly as bad as the second one, and it wasn't nearly as good as the first. It was an enjoyable way to spend an evening. I'd see it again, even.