"- P**S OFF!"
Tracking the 'missing' last days of Edgar Allan Poe by embroiling him in a serial-killer spree inspired by his own stories is a neat idea, and there is clearly a lot of love for Poe on display here. The laboured structure and heavy-handed dialogue are leavened by some good period detail and nice cinematography, but the selling point - the Poe-inspired killings - are disappointingly muted, save for the show-stopping bisection of The Pit And The Pendulum, which has plenty of digital splatter on display. With sound work from Luke Evans as the Inspector and an unpredictably wayward performance of Poe by John Cusack, The Raven rapidly becomes a fairly turgid police procedural that is well-made but not too engaging.
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