Another Entertaining Movie from the One A.K.A Mr Reeves

Rating: 6/10 (8 January 2008)

I watched this movie earlier this evening. While not overly impressed I still found this to be very entertaining and waaaay better than a lot of recent comic book style movies, such as Catwoman, Hellboy, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Hulk, Elektra etc.
I am not familiar with the source material. I did however contrary to many reviews here, find Keanu Reeves to be very good in this film. His Character John Constantine is a chainsmoking, arrogant and obnoxious guy, who does not let people in to his personal life. He is dying of cancer and tormented by inner demons (as well as fighting real ones outside). Having been damned to hell, he is trying to somehow buy his way back to heaven by vanquishing demons on earth (which only he and a select few can see). I think he portrayed this individual very well, the supporting cast also gave decent performances. I seem to slightly disagree with many people here on Rachel Weisz's performance, while quite good was not exceptional as many have stated here.
The eventual meeting with the Devil was a little disappointing, but overall it was definitely not a bad movie. In fact I found it to be very entertaining and visually excellent.
I am not a big fan of Keanu Reeves as I have only really liked him in a few films. But here I think he performed well and the movie was all the better for it.