It's all so well-paced and cool-looking and mordantly clever that you may forgive the film's transgressions.
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02/18/05
Constantine (2005)
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Reviews Counted:207
Fresh:94
Rotten:113
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Action/Adventure
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... [More]
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Keanu Reeves, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton
Director: Francis Lawrence
Reviews for Constantine
121 - 140 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
This is nonsense, of course, and the trappings surrounding it only typify the absolute worst of comic books.
02/18/05
Every time Weisz and Reeves share the screen, 'Constantine' goes weirdly out of whack, since she's doing some actual acting while he seems to be playing 'let's pretend.'
02/18/05
For all its spiritual angst, Constantine is about as silly as fantasies get.
02/18/05
Great-looking but torturously slow.
02/18/05
Constantine does have its pleasures.
02/18/05
Top CriticSay what you will about Reeves, but he's a unique creature. Even when he's bad, he can be pretty fun to watch. And to listen to.
02/18/05
Music video-trained director Francis Lawrence whips up a witch's brew of gray-on-gray atmosphere, but for all the end-of-the-world mumbo jumbo, nothing much ever seems to be at stake.
02/18/05
Reeves has a deliberately morose energy level in the movie, as befits one who has seen hell, walks among half-demons, and is dying.
02/18/05
Top CriticReeves wears essentially the same black wardrobe, does the same moves, shows off the same galling lack of acting ability, but with a slightly different haircut.
02/18/05
It turns out to be a pleasant surprise, never taking itself too seriously and with some fairly tense and creepy moments.
02/18/05
There's a potentially good story rattling around somewhere inside this broken, self-contradictory and finally meaningless film.
02/18/05
A more visceral approach might have upgraded Constantine from what in its present form feels more like a trip to heck and back.
02/18/05
Alternates between quiet, surprisingly dull scenes in which the hero and the girl talk in that italicized comic-book way about his past and orgies of computer pixels dressed up as gibbering fiends.
02/18/05
The biggest problems with Constantine all seem to stem from Keanu Reeves. The problem is that Reeves really can’t act. Sorry, Keanu, but the truth hurts.
02/18/05
...a stand-alone, rapturous good time—craftily and accurately captures the straight-faced camp, wry wit and episodic structure of its source material.
02/18/05
(Constantine) fails to capture the imagination. It is what it is, a cinematic comic book.
02/18/05
This movie will satisfy Reeves fans in search for a good-looking action flick.
02/18/05
By the time Peter Stormare appears [as] Lucifer, the story has become so convoluted, we can't take it seriously. Judging from his campy performance, neither can Stormare.
02/18/05
proves better at juggling the neo-religious elements central to the story far better than, say, the last two Matrix films.
02/18/05
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