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Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Prismark10 With so many actors from the British Isles, you can guess that some European city is passing itself off for 19th century Baltimore.Horror writer Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) has returned to Baltimore, down on his heel, needing a drink and a newspaper editor willing to publish his work. His best writing days are behind and no one wants to know him, in fact most do not know who he is.Pretty soon a killer inspired by Poe's writings is slaughtering people. in all sorts of nasty ways. Smart Baltimore police Inspector Fields (Luke Evans) first suspects Poe but then enlists him for his help as he needs Poe's knowledge of his own works to find the killer. Time is running out as Poe's girlfriend has been kidnapped.The film is a police procedural mixed with campy horror. Cusack's take on Poe feels all wrong. However you go to applaud a film that takes the writer Poe and puts him in his own ridiculous horror tale.

joseluispala The raven Mystery This movie is the adaption the of the poem made by Edgar Allan Poe and they did a really good job. The mystery is every part of the movie. The work of the actors is good, in my point of view the work of John Cusack was amazing. The special effects for me it were not to good for me. I really like this movie but talking about Edgar Allan Poe this movie needed more blood and horror.

zarakian This is a reasonable watch, the Gothic fog-bound atmosphere of 19th century Baltimore is well done. John Cusack is however miscast as Poe it needs someone with a more neurotic even creepy look, but given there is a love story interwoven that was not going to happen. The basic premise is sound and even if there are a few plot-holes hold together reasonably well. It is spoiled in the end by the end or rather the very end .. are we to believe the evil mastermind is so dumb he has used his real name .. tsk tsk and through that name his fate is sealed in the final scene. NAH! make no sense.

Gordon-11 This film tells the re-imagined story of the final few days of the famous poet Edgar Allen Poe, who is unwillingly involved in the hunt for a cruel serial killer in Baltimore.The story of "The Raven" is very dark and gruesome. The deaths depicted in the film are imaginative but very bloody. There were some deaths that looked to terrible that I wish I did not have to see. There is much suspense as the identity of the killer remains mysterious until the last moments in the film. Luke Evans shines as the persistent inspector who does not overlook any clues. He is charismatic, confident and convincing in his role. Overall, it is a good horror mystery.