It's occasionally cheesy, sometimes enjoyable, intermittently scary, and constantly spiked with celestial blatherskite.
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01/17/06
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
US Box Office: $75,500,759
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
1 - 20 (sorted by fresh rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticThough I have a soft spot for Keanu Reeves there’s no denying this is one of his worst performances... sounding dopier than usual.
02/21/05
Top CriticThe movie pulls no punches when it comes to biblical prophecy, black comedy and artistic visuals. And that's totally killer.
02/18/05
Top CriticWhile lacking the richness of its source material, it remains an enjoyable, immoral and sometimes beautifully Gothic tale.
04/01/06
Top Critic...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
Se queda en algún punto intermedio, un purgatorio de las cintas que no pueden ir al Infierno pero que, lo siento por la inversión, tampoco se ganan el Cielo.
02/24/05
Constantine is no Hellblazer, but if you can get past that, it's a fun little film worth the price of admission.
02/19/05
Keanu Reeves is -- let me just get this off my chest -- very good.
02/19/05
Once you let yourself fall into its rising hellfire, you'll get caught up in its thrilling storyline, ominous ambiance, and wild and weird action sequences
02/14/05
Keanu Reeves surfs through his acting in this otherwise excellent demonic film noir.
03/12/05
Let's drop the bias and negativity and cut to the chase here: Reeves is good in this role.
06/15/05
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.
07/29/05
Occult detective John Constantine (Reeves) has seen it all and responds to the most hideous threat with a puff on his cigarette and a self-assured leap into the abyss.
02/17/05
If its dark-heartedness is sometimes counterfeit, Constantine still scores courtesy of its convincing comic book milieu.
02/17/05
Keanu Reeves is a chain-smoking, tough-talking, and ***-kicking Exorcist, taking out the demonic trash like a hybrid of Father Karras and Mike Hammer
03/03/05
The stylized, almost film noir design uses extreme close-ups and bizarro angles to give us the feeling you get from the best comics, the feeling that we are seeing everything from an angle that is perfect, unexpected and new.
02/17/05
Constantine provides a novel twist on the typical comic book movie until it collapses under its own goofy logic
02/20/05
Hellacious, audacious, visually stunning and deeply wiggy, Constantine is a miracle, a comic-book movie for smart people.
02/17/05
Doubting his mission and his faith even as he's consumed by them, Constantine is an achingly topical comic book/movie hero.
02/18/05
It's just sad that a movie ostensibly based on a frequently intelligent comic book should end up a no-brainer.
08/22/08
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