Production Companies Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, DC Comics (Vertigo), Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG., Donners' Company, Branded Entertainment/Batfilm Productions, Weed Road Pictures, 3 Art Entertainment, Di Bonaventura Pictures
Constantly tormenting the renegade exorcist are half-breed entities from both sides. The angelic Gabriel (TILDA SWINTON), God’s gatekeeper on Earth, continually denies Constantine the salvation he so fervently pursues. Unmoved by Constantine’s private war and aware of his selfish motives, Gabriel admonishes repeatedly – and none too sympathetically – that he cannot buy his way into heaven, while Satan’s emissary Balthazar (GAVIN ROSSDALE) mocks his futile efforts and reminds him his days are numbered. Hearing of Constantine’s recently diagnosed terminal lung cancer, Balthazar is beside himself with malevolent glee.
Among Constantine’s few allies is Chaz (SHIA LaBEOUF), his faithful driver and wannabe apprentice. Fascinated by what he sees of Constantine’s world, albeit from a safe distance, Chaz makes up for his lack of practical experience with an encyclopedic knowledge of the religious and paranormal, in avid preparation for the day when Constantine might finally ask for his help.
Constantine’s former comrade, Midnite (DJIMON HOUNSOU) could be the source of more formidable help if Constantine hadn’t all but burned that bridge. Once a faith healer and witch doctor, Midnite claims neutrality and offers his nightclub as a sanctuary for half-breeds from both sides while keeping his true loyalties to himself. Now he warns Constantine to respect the balance.
Still he persists. It’s the only thing he can do. It has become his life.
Called to the site of another demonic possession by his old friend Father Hennessy (PRUITT TAYLOR VINCE), a weary priest whose body and soul have seen better days, he prepares for yet another exorcism. This time it’s a young girl in the grip of the underworld, the latest in a series of countless exorcisms that Constantine has performed and yet this one suddenly feels different to him. With disbelief and then increasing alarm Constantine realizes that the demon inside this particular child is fighting not for possession of her tiny body but for a way to break through it and enter the physical world, a blatant breach of the age-old balance. This cannot be happening.
But that’s just the first of several disturbing portents. En route home on the dark streets of downtown Los Angeles, Constantine is attacked by a demon – not a half-breed but a full-fledged demon, brazenly appearing on the earthly plane as if it had the right.
Later, as he sits alone pondering these inexplicable and terrifying incidents he is approached by Angela Dodson (RACHEL WEISZ), a police detective with her own desperate questions about her sister Isabel’s mysterious suicide. Raised to believe suicide is a mortal sin, Angela cannot accept that her sister would take her own life, even though surveillance footage from the psychiatric hospital where Isabel was a patient shows her leaping from the roof. Based on rumors Angela has heard about Constantine, linking him to strange and supernatural events in the city, she seeks him out against her skepticism, in hopes that he might help explain what really happened to Isabel.
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