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Constantine (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 204 Fresh: 92  Rotten:112 Average Rating: 5.5/10
 
Consensus: Despite solid production values and an intriguing premise, Constantine lacks the focus of another spiritual shoot-em-up, The Matrix. Despite solid production values and an intriguing premise, Constantine lacks the focus of another spiritual shoot-em-up, The Matrix. more
 
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Synopsis:
John Constantine has been to hell and back. 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... [More]
John Constantine has been to hell and back. 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. -- © Warner Bros. [Less]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince

Director: Francis Lawrence
Screenwriter: Kevin Brodbin, Frank Cappello
Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner, Benjamin Melniker, Michael Uslan, Erwin Stoff, Akiva Goldsman
Composer: Brian Tyler, Klaus Badelt

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 6, 2006

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  • Based on the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer graphic novels and written by Kevin Brodbin and Frank Cappello, Constantine tells the story of John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), a man who has literally been to hell and back. When he teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, 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 inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.
  • Source: Warner Home Video
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    Entirely beyond redemption.

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    06/24/06 03:41 AM
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    While lacking the richness of its source material, it remains an enjoyable, immoral and sometimes beautifully Gothic tale.

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    04/01/06 03:47 AM
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    A grab bag of bits from the whole demons-and-angels spectrum.

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    04/05/05 10:15 PM
    Kim Newman
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    Lawrence directs with energy, humour and an amusing eye for bizarre details - such as the fact that Hell can be accessed via the judicious use of a cat and a puddle.

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    04/02/05 11:01 PM
    Matthew Turner
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    Sometimes dense and impenetrable, but it also contains an unusually thoughtful consideration of the difference between faith and belief.

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    03/20/05 10:15 PM
    Shay Casey
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    Constantine's incoherent plotting ruins the comicbook's frazzled, hard-bitten edge.

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    03/08/05 10:15 PM
    Jamie Russell
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    A stylish energy sustains this film even when it begins to drift into draggy incoherence.

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    02/27/05 10:15 PM
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    11/05/07 03:15 AM
    David Ansen
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    While decidedly no one's idea of the John Constantine of the comics (who was originally modelled on Sting), Reeves acquits himself well enough.

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    07/30/07 03:17 PM
    Rob Gonsalves
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    A kind of gothic guerilla warfare, with moody demonologist John Constantine caught in between.

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    05/21/07 07:14 AM
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    04/26/07 03:15 AM
    Andrew Sarris
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    10/03/06 09:20 AM
    Joseph Proimakis
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    Reeves, meanwhile, has confidently entered his self-parodic period.

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    05/12/06 03:15 AM
    Ken Tucker
    New York Magazine
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    A little too muddled and erratically paced to command much interest. While some of the effects are cleverly worked-up, the picture seems more often to be on CGI autopilot.

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    02/07/06 01:00 PM
    Kurt Loder
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    Slightly better than your run-of-the-mill late winter horror film.

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    12/06/05 07:51 PM
    Pete Vonder Haar
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    Virtually anyone but Reeves would have made a better John Constantine.

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    09/26/05 03:16 AM
    Tasha Robinson
    Onion AV Club
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    "Constantine" isn't about the people of the story and only uses the story as a reason to blow things up.

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    08/07/05 06:58 AM
    Wesley Lovell
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    Constantine does generate some mid-level amusement and F/X interest in the epic battle it's based on, but has very little to show for it once the final credits role.

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    07/29/05 10:24 PM
    Bill Gibron
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    simplified and predictable plot that uses every pseudo-religious cliche imaginable

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    07/26/05 02:42 PM
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