Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller, Drama, Horror, Supernatural, Demon, Demonic Possession, Devil, Comic Book, Psychic
Tagline: Hell wants him. Heaven won't take him. Earth needs him.
Plot: Born with a gift he didn’t want, the ability to clearly recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine (KEANU REEVES) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision. But he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way to salvation by sending the devil’s foot soldiers back to the depths. But Constantine is no saint. Disillusioned by the world around him and at odds with the one beyond, he’s a hard-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroism. Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn’t want your admiration or your thanks – and certainly not your sympathy. All he wants is a reprieve. When a desperate but skeptical police detective (RACHEL WEISZ as Angela Dodson) enlists his help in solving the mysterious death of her beloved twin sister (also played by Weisz), their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become
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 Constantine will appeal most strongly to those with a penchant for vivid cinematic comic book adaptations. It remains to be seen whether it will find its audience or end up ignored by viewers expecting another installment of The Matrix or a more traditional horror movie.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Reeves has a deliberately morose energy level in the movie, as befits one who has seen hell, walks among half-demons, and is dying.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Constantine won't set any new standards for comic-book films, but it's good enough and consistent enough to keep its parent company in the race. B---Rob Vaux (Flipsidemovies.com)
Very forgettable, but fun while it lasts. Unfortunately, a hole-riddled story squanders a thought provoking theme.  --Mike Reiter
...this flick is a bit over the top, but it is indeed a film version of an even more outrageous and triply insane comic. --Annette Cardwell (FilmCritic.com)
And it's all buried alive under those boring genre staples: streetlights lose their juice, machinery runs on its own, steadicams sweep around 'saucy' nightclub-goers with eyes that glow party-bulb red like the HAL 9000 computer. Characters get to speak Old English and Latin while CGI artists swaddle them in digital swarms of locusts and plumes of black smoke --most of which (surprise) look unconvincing. There is also a good dosage of shattered windows, splashing water, rivulets of blood...  --Andy Keast
In CONSTANTINE, the humor is never quite funny, the drama, never quite compelling, the plot never quite cogent, and the terror never quite effective. All in all, it's more like limbo than either Heaven or Hell.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
Those looking for a simple, mindless escape can be find it in Constantine’s campier horror moments and the pulpy joy of a chain-smoking protagonist Hell-bent on avoiding Hell. However, the dark satire and deeper thematic elements will live on and haunt those who think about them well after the movie’s conclusion.  --Matt Anderson
Rational people should probably avoid “Constantine” like the plague; its lurid charms will be lost on those who demand a staid sensibility in their popcorn entertainment. For those who don’t require such things, “Constantine” can be seen as one of those future cult movies beloved by those willing to embrace both its virtues and flaws equally.  --Peter Sobczynski (eFilmCritic.com)
CONSTANTINE is the first solid action film of the year, and certainly one of the best performances of Reeve's career. They could have come up with a more exciting movie poster, though. --Brian McKay (eFilmCritic.com)
Constantine is not without it’s defects. I still am having trouble figuring out what the villain’s master plan was, and what the difference is between a demon and a half-demon. --Uri Lessing (eFilmCritic.com)
...we’ve got ourselves a “real movie” here, complete with a mystery-based plotline, some hocus-pocus, plenty of darkness, Reeves smoking like a chimney, justified special effects and most importantly…balls, man…balls. 7/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
I agree it's an awful movie, not for offending the believers in catholic mythology but for taking an interesting, thoughtful comic book and turing into a cgi laced mess!--Chuck O'Leary
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Keanu Reeves
The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions |
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 | Tilda Swinton
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Vanilla Sky, Adaptation. |
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 | Shia LaBeouf
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Holes, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd | |
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Klaus Badelt
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Equilibrium, Poseidon |
 | Brian Tyler
Frailty, Bubba Ho-tep, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift |
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| There's a lot of smoke and mirrors, literally and figuratively, in "Constantine," a great-looking but torturously slow and often hokey cross between "The Exorcist" and "Dirty Harry" starring Keanu Reeves that amounts to much less than meets the eye. --Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
"Constantine" is an idiotic film that rips off "The Exorcist" while being ostentatiously ignorant, blasphemous and tasteless. --Ed Blank
In spite of the modern Hollywoodesque reliance on (special effects), this is an interesting, albeit dark, movie with good acting, especially by Swinton and Stormare. 6/10--Tony Medley
Overall, Constantine never delivered anything in any way. The material is dark and dull and the characters are just plain boring.  --Brian Oliver
A compelling story, zany ideas, outrageous horror/action set pieces, a gnarly dry wittiness and an anti-hero who is now part of my “top pooch” list; this big, bad, hypnotic trip had all the makings of a potentially new and exciting franchise! --'The Arrow' (Arrow)
Anchored by the central performance of Keanu Reeves -- whose good bit of natural onscreen charisma makes up for his limited acting talent -- the movie coasts when he coasts. 6/10--Jeffrey Chen
The theology plays some known themes alongside new ones: concepts of hell, of balance, human purpose in spite of itself, and redemption are presented freshly yet blasphemously, with one surprise after another. As an open-minded Christian, I had no problem with it...Do see Constantine and enjoy. This film is sure to become a classic in its genre. Putting it in a genre would require a whole new article. 10/10--Rebecca Fransway
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