| Director | Bharat Nalluri |
|---|---|
| Budget | $10 million |
In Salt Lake City, Alexander "Alex" Frederick Corvis is framed for the murder of his girlfriend, Lauren Randall, and sentenced to death. Three years later, he is executed in the electric chair, suffering a painful death due to lightning overloading the energy of the chair.
The Crow resurrects Alex in the prison morgue and gives him supernatural abilities, allowing him to escape the prison and avenge Lauren's death. Alex follows the crow and finds evidence at the police station that Lauren was killed by a group of corrupt cops, including one with a scar on his arm matching the one he saw just before his execution. Later, at Lauren's grave, he encounters her sister, Erin, where the angel statue sheds a bloody tear. Erin believes that he is guilty, but Alex tells her that he will prove his innocence.
Later, Alex finds Thomas Leonard, the witness in the trial who was bribed to give a perjured testimony and forces him to confess that four members of the police force set Alex up: Martin Toomey, James Erlich, Stan Roberts, and Phillip Dutton. Unbeknownst to him, there was also a fifth officer involved: Detective Madden.
Alex begins his road to vengeance, killing Dutton while saving two young girls he was sexually harassing, but not before reading his mind, discovering his role in Lauren's murder. Dutton tried to rape Lauren that day, only for her to use his gun to shoot Erlich. Alex then confronts Erlich, who assaulted his lawyer, Peter Walsh, at his office and hijacks his car. Alex instigates a police pursuit and crashes Erlich's car, blowing it up with Erlich inside, while also (inadvertently) destroying a police helicopter in the process. Alex drops the list of the cops he is after, and it is later found by Roberts and Toomey. With evidence found in Erlich's car, Alex and Erin find out that Nathan Randall, Erin and Lauren's father, is in business with the corrupt cops and is indirectly responsible for her death when Lauren uncovered the truth. Erin runs away in horror from her father when she is confronted with the truth.
Madden is ordered by Police Captain John Book and his secretary (also his lover) to deal with Leonard. Roberts and Toomey interrogate Leonard at his apartment about who killed Dutton and Erlich, and despite Leonard stating it was Alex, he and his wife are killed, orphaning their child. Alex confronts Walsh about his findings with the dirty cops and their connection to a company called DERT. Erin confesses to Alex that she felt guilty for Lauren's murder because she told the cops where they could find her, thinking that they would only arrest Alex. With his powers, Alex shows Erin that Lauren fought off her attackers and that Erin should forgive herself. Captain John Book heads to the prison with his secretary and Madden to investigate the prison break; they discover Alex's body missing from the morgue and the Crow insignia from a broken mirror, confirming that he has been resurrected. When Erin returns home, she finds her father dead, having been killed by Book in an earlier confrontation. Later, Alex finds out from Walsh that one of Nathan's businesses ran DERT, revealing it to be a front for a drug smuggling operation.
Book and Madden break into Walsh's office, where they fatally wound him and kidnap Erin; Walsh leaves a clue for Alex just before Madden finishes him off. Alex starts a fiasco at the Key Club and discovers that Lauren had witnessed Roberts killing a man named Sampson there, leading to her death. He is then confronted by Roberts, Toomey, and a team of cops as a shootout ensues. Alex impales Roberts with a pipe that he breaks off from the ceiling and kills the remaining cops. Madden shows up and tries to kill Alex, but his gunfire accidentally shoots a broken gas pipe. The explosion kills Toomey, and Alex walks out of the fire and sees a dismembered arm in the rubble with the zig-zag scar on it, believing the man with the scar to be among the crowd. The Crow leaves Alex, believing he has "fulfilled his duty". He then loses his ability to heal faster after an incident where he visualized Lauren, but it was a female bystander, whose boyfriend knocks Alex to the ground, giving him a bloody nose.
From Walsh's dying clue, Alex deduces that the "King" is Book. He heads to the police station to save Erin and kill Book, but without his powers, he is stabbed by Book and dies from his wounds. In agony, Book taunts Alex into believing that he killed Lauren, making the latter accept his demise. Book, Madden, and the secretary bring Alex's body to a room where Erin is tied with her mouth stitched shut and the body of Walsh hanging and missing an arm, revealing him to be the owner of the dismembered arm that Alex saw at the Key Club. Erin manages to pass Lauren's locket to the Crow, who drops it next to Alex, being a promise of love and truth. It revives Alex, restoring his powers and allowing him to set Erin free and kill both Madden and the secretary, while Book runs after Erin after she escapes and unstitches her mouth. Alex catches up with them and exposes Book's arm, showing the actual zig-zag scar Alex saw during the attack the night of Lauren's murder, therefore revealing Book as the mastermind who ultimately ordered the murders of Lauren and Thomas, as well as Alex's setup.
Alex and Erin take Book to the electric chair and electrocute him to the point of cremation. Alex's soul is finally released to reunite with Lauren and Erin keeps Lauren's necklace with her.