Good, Bad... I'm the one with the Holy Shotgun.

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2006)

The performance given by the actors in this movie could be the matter for a long discussion. Keanu "Wooden Face" Reeves tries very hard, and at least, like John Constantine in the original comics, he's gloomy. He doesn't manage though to be *as* sarcastic, twisted and generally selfish as the original... and anyway he really hasn't got the worn-out looks it requires to be a good Constantine. I regret also that they didn't pick the Kingpin from Daredevil to play the Papa Midnight part. The other actors do much better I think...
I would say that what keeps the story together is mostly the decorum, the SFX and the mind-drilling music. That and the very interesting concept of "both sides are hypocritical, good and evil are really two groups who just want to beat each other by all means necessary". If you think about it, in the end you might wonder if all of this, including the last "choice" Gabe puts in John's hands, wasn't just all a test of Constantine's soul. If so, it was really playing dices.
Albert Einstein would probably appreciate that one :)