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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... 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. [More]

Starring: Rachel Weisz, Keanu Reeves, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton

Starring: Rachel Weisz, Keanu Reeves, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Djimon Hounsou, Gavin Rossdale, Peter Stormare

Director: Francis Lawrence

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
Studio: Warner Bros.

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...stuck in a plane between deliberate laughs, and filmmaking that’s laughably bad

Full Review Source: Atlantic City Weekly | comment Comment
03/10/05
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

Constantine's incoherent plotting ruins the comicbook's frazzled, hard-bitten edge.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
03/08/05
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
BBC

While haters might go into the movie hoping Keanu will go to hell, Constantine is not so bad as to make you continue to feel the hate.

Full Review Source: WaffleMovies.com | comment Comment
03/06/05
Willie Waffle
Willie Waffle
WaffleMovies.com

Brimming with good ideas but fails to exorcise the demons of audience pandering.

Full Review Source: Film Snobs | comment Comment
03/06/05
Jimmy O
Jimmy O
Film Snobs

...a spiritually spry yet lumbering fantasy...The technological flourishes are a marvel to behold but the film’s erratic journey is as choppy as a country dirt road

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
03/06/05
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

Reeves is more wooden than the cross and is about as sexy

Full Review Source: Peterborough This Week | comment Comment
03/06/05
Mike Sage
Mike Sage
Peterborough This Week

Obviously toned-down from the comic, it's still a pretty provocative piece - a slyly funny Biblical detective story (sort of a Sunday School film noir.)

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
03/05/05
Sean Burns
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly

It's difficult to understand what Constantine is about, or indeed, whether it's a good movie.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
03/03/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

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

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/03/05
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

Maybe some of the audience should wonder if they aren’t performing the Devil’s work by sitting so quietly through movies that turn wonders into garbage.

Full Review Source: New Yorker | comment Comment
03/01/05
David Denby
David Denby
New Yorker
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Where The Exorcist, The Prophecy, and ... Dogma have all ventured, Constantine gives the middle finger and delves into darker territory.

Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com | comment Comment
03/01/05
Kevin A. Ranson
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com

A construct of heaven and hell that makes no sense, and changes when the plot requires it, is the least of its problems.

Full Review Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | comment Comment
03/01/05
Jonathan R. Perry
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

Devilishly more entertaining than it has any right to be.

Full Review Source: Movie Boeuf | comment Comment
02/28/05
David N. Butterworth
David N. Butterworth
Movie Boeuf

plays more like a bunch of vaguely realized ideas strung haphazardly together than it does as a coherent story with rhythm and purpose

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
02/27/05
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

A stylish energy sustains this film even when it begins to drift into draggy incoherence.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
02/27/05
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

"Constantine" isn't heavenly. But it's an interesting enough look at what lies beyond.

Full Review Source: KWQC-TV (Iowa) | comment Comment
02/27/05
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
KWQC-TV (Iowa)

...entirely miscast...

Full Review Source: Talking Pictures (U.S.) | comment Comment
02/27/05
Tony Toscano
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)

If you've ever wanted to see Keanu Reeves go to hell, this is your chance.

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
02/24/05
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

I’d call it anticlimactic if there were any rising action ...

Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) | comment Comment
02/24/05
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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.

Full Review Source: Cinenganos | comment Comment
02/24/05
Alex Ramirez
Alex Ramirez
Cinenganos
 
 
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