Laugh out loud bad

Rating: 2/10 (24 February 2005)

Tedious and very funny Keanu Reeves horror movie that lacks not only the thrills but also a real story with an actual plot in it. The dialog is horrendously bad with scenes that actually has noting to do with the story being told and characters that adds nothing to the overall story at all. Keanu Reeves is painfully miscast as the occult detective John Constantine and the direction by first time director Frances Lawrence is spotty at best. The screenplay is a jumbled mess and it contradicts itself in certain scenes of the film and some of the performances are not up to par. There is some good in the film and that is mostly coming from the performance of Rachel Weisz, and she does more for it than the movie does for her. I actually cared about her character more than I cared about John Constantine and if I were the screenwriter of this movie, I would have cut John out altogether and just focus the movie on her. For one, it would have cut about half of the unnecessary characters that is in the film but also might have made the movie more focus in its plot because her character has more of a reason of being in the movie than Keanu's, who is just there for the mandatory overblown climax, which in itself incoherent because it raises more questions than the movie wants to answer.
I agree with the majority, see it for Rachel Weisz great performance only but I suggest you wait for DVD instead because the movie is not as good as she is.