Reeves once again bears the sins of man for heavenly good, this time with attitude
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02/17/05
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
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
161 - 180 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The much-maligned Reeves gives a subdued, convincing performance.
02/17/05
So where are we? In two hours of Dullsville, as Sinatra used to say.
02/17/05
Top CriticLawrence keeps the story on track and doesn't cheat the world of Constantine, which embraces good, evil, unforgiving judgment and the human ambiguities that offer the possibility for forgiveness.
02/17/05
Despite some witty special effects and a appealing concept, Constantine meanders in too many directions to make much sense even to itself.
02/17/05
Top CriticReasonably satisfying cinematic junk food...enough crackerjack sequences and admirably trippy rhythms for a recommendation.
02/17/05
It's all about the visuals and the attitude, and both are are cool and striking, reflecting its comic book origins and music video sensibilities.
02/17/05
Keanu Reeves brings a gravity to John Constantine that makes Neo -- his cheerless character in the Matrix movies -- now appear to be the height of the actor's madcap Jerry Lewis period. Hey Hayyyy-deees!
02/17/05
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
Borderline incoherent, theologically unsatisfying, and short to the point of dwarfism on suspense.
02/17/05
Keanu Reeves plays a haunted, expressionless traveler in an overblown theological thriller based on the DC/Vertigo comic book Hellblazer.
02/17/05
Top CriticConstantine deals, at least in part, with its title character's attempt to cross over from hell to heaven. But there's no uncertainty about the movie's fate. It quickly heads south.
02/17/05
Takes too long telling a story that could have delivered maximum impact in less time.
02/17/05
The screenplay by Frank A. Cappello and Kevin Brodbin is only interesting for a few characters, hardly the story.
02/17/05
Top CriticThe story is a retread of the old Exorcist and Omen formats, but it delivers as much action and spectacle as fans of the genre could want.
02/17/05
This supernatural, super-noir thriller has been shot beautifully (by Philippe Rousselot), and directed with enjoyable, crazy-angled aplomb by Francis Lawrence.
02/17/05
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
It may not be the first great movie of 2005, but it is certainly the first really entertaining one.
02/17/05
Hellacious, audacious, visually stunning and deeply wiggy, Constantine is a miracle, a comic-book movie for smart people.
02/17/05
Though the story is potentially fascinating and the visuals sometimes spellbinding, the movie itself is stranded in the purgatory of the second-rate.
02/17/05
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