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Source : SuperHeroHype Reviewer : Roger Date : 31st December 2004 Spoilers : None <<< Back To Reviews I caught a screening of Constantine last night in San Francisco while I was visiting a few friends I knew from college. One of them does business with a movie theater because her bar and grill is right next to it and they both help each other out in promoting themselves in area. She gets invited to see advance screenings of movies that are coming out soon and she was invited to see the new Keanu Reeves film last night, so she ask me to accompany her to the screening. The movie is decent but it could have been a lot more than it was. I did not buy Keanu as this kind of character and he did not hold himself well with the material at hand. Keanu has a charismatic presence on screen and that is what makes watching some of his films worth while but the character he plays in this movie is just an arrogant ***hole who should have gotten his clock cleaned a long time ago. I can understand the type of character he's trying to play but those kinds of characters have a side to them that not only makes you care about them but also makes you understand where they are coming from. I did not understand John Constantine at all and did not care to, that's how much of an ***hole he was. I liked Rachel Weisz a lot though and I would have liked to have learned more about her character and her relationship with her sister, which would have been a much better movie than this film was if they just could have based the film around her character instead of John Constantine. Djmon Hounsou, who was so great in the film "In America" only has a bit part here and he does well with it but I would have rather had him play a much bigger role than he was allowed to play in this film. Peter Stormare, who was so great in the movies "Birth" and "Chocolat", gives quite an unusual take on the Devil. Unfortunately, he's not in the movie very much at all. The special effects are good but the way hell is represented here is more a variation of the sets that was used in the film than something completely original. It's a decent film if you're in the mood for this kind of movie but I think you will end up thinking that it could have been better once it's over. <<< Back To Reviews