*the plunky piano in the corner goes silent, every soul in the saloon stops dead in its tracks, staring at Zarban*

The thing about action sequences, tho, is that they don't really add anything to a movie. Some of the most effective action sequences I've ever seen have lasted less than a minute and just did what they had to do and moved on. Having a ten minute fight sequence with crazy choreography can work in some films, like The Matrix, but a lot of the flicks that attempt that stuff end up falling flat because they aren't doing anything with the characters during those scenes beyond just having them hit each other - there was generally more going on in the matrix' fights than that (aside from the lobby scene, which was just setup for the roof scene). Die Hard is a good example of a movie with pretty short action sequences and fights that all end pretty abruptly and last only a minute or so.

Anyway, The Crow might not have the best action scenes, but you really dislike the guys getting killed. They spend the whole first half of the movie just setting up what huge assholes they are. I guess that kinda helps make fights feel better than they are. Lee's characterization of Draven helps a lot as well.