In Baltimore in the 1840s, someone is committing grisly murders based on the stories of Edgar Allen Poe (John Cusack).
When the killer kidnaps Poe’s fiancee (Alice Eve), the writer joins police in trying to catch the psychopath he has inspired.
Sadly, this intriguing, high-concept premise soon becomes unwieldy and, as the dead pile up, The Raven gropes in vain for its own pulse.
We’re told repeatedly by other characters that Poe “has a darkness” but there is precious little of it on screen; Cusack, reheating his cynical record store owner from High Fidelity, never convinces as truly tortured. Equally, the film fails to build any sense of dread or make the most of its period setting.
Requisite shots of alleys shrouded in fog aside, there is no more atmosphere than in an episode of CSI.
Read further: http://www.tntmagazine.com/entertainment/film/review-the-raven
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