The sad thing about this impressively-staged comic-strip action movie in the ultra-violent mould, as far as being a tribute to its deceased star, is that Brandon Lee's presence doesn't actually add anything to it.

His part could be played by Dolph Lundgren or any other action star without changing the impact of the film.

As it is, Lee is rock star Eric Draven, who meets a violent death on the eve of his wedding and returns from the grave a year later to wreak vengeance on those who raped and killed his bride-to-be.

Accompanied by the crow that has brought his soul back to earth, he sets about an orgy of death and destruction.

The result is a bit like one of director Michael Winner's bloodbaths of the Seventies with a horror-film slant, although overhead travelling shots of the dark city, whether ablaze by arsonists on Devil's Night (Halloween Eve), or rising suddenly from the ground, are undeniably imaginative, and foreshadowed the same director's superior Dark City.

The crow's good too.