This amazing film was never released in its true, uncut version, the way James O' Barr's vision intended. A worthy successor in its full two-hour length to the cult classic The Crow, The Crow: City of Angels was heavily edited and cut, with numerous key scenes deleted. Taken from Wikipedia.org:

"After the success of The Crow, Miramax commissioned a sequel, and production began in August 1995. The Weinstein Brothers offered directing duties to Tim Pope on the basis of his work on a short film, Phone, he made in 1991. David S. Goyer was brought on to write the script.

Returning also from the previous film were producers Jeff Most and Edward R. Pressman. Both Goyer and Pope wanted to make the film completely different from the first one, aiming to give it a more tragic feel, and for the characters to have more depth. While working on the film, Goyer was also writing the script for Dark City, which was directed by the previous film's director Alex Proyas. Punk rock legend Iggy Pop was hired to play the villain Curve; Pop had previously been offered the role of Funboy in the first film. Tori Amos turned down the role of Sarah, while Jon Bon Jovi auditioned for the role of Ashe, but Vincent Pérez got that job in the end. Pérez was selected because of his performance in La Reine Margot. For inspiration, Pérez looked to Jim Morrison and Hamlet. Thomas Jane was picked to play the villain Nemo. While the filmmakers and studio originally intended to create a substantially different film to the first one (out of respect for Brandon Lee), Miramax ordered the film to be re-edited so as to resemble the earlier one as much as possible. Tim Pope refused and he, along with Goyer, eventually disowned the film, as it did not represent their vision.

While the film was a minor success, it paled in comparison to the previous film's US earnings of $50 million.

The film has a 12% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews; the average rating is 3.4/10.

In 2001, a collector's edition was released, labeled "exclusive Director's Cut", which restored 11 minutes of extended footage and included two featurettes and an audio commentary.

The film's Blu-ray that was released by Echo Bridge Entertainment has been criticized as not being up to high definition standards. It was further criticized for being erroneously labeled as 1080p when the film was, in fact, presented in 1080i."

Rumor on the Internet suggests that the original work prints do exist. A fan cut, called The Crow: Second Coming, was released on the Internet at 112 minutes in length as opposed to the Mirimax and Dimension films' 91 minutes. It has since disappeared from any websites, to the disappointment of fans and even some of the original team who went so far as to thank the fan editors for creating it!

In addition, the two-hour length movie in its full format was released on Pay-Per-View in the late 1990s, and was never released to home media. In the spirit of The Crow remake facing a possible distribution in 2017, let's release a completely restored sequel as it was originally intended!