This is NOT the Matrix!

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2005)

Can you all please get over the Matrix?!?! This film, or any other film, whether starring Keanu Reeves or not, is not the Matrix, and does not deserve to be compared to it.
Constantine is a genre film, dealing with the end of the world, the occult, etc. much like The Prophecy or the awful End of Days and Stigmata. And it's really not too bad. If you go into a Keanu film looking for cinematic art or a think-piece, you will always be sadly mistaken. This is a good fun movie, adapted from a great comic book, and Keanu's performance is easily a cut above his average. Hell, it wasn't as if he was actually "acting" in the Matrix either.
Rachel Weisz and Djimon Honsou were both excellent, and Tilda Swinton as Gabriel was an inspired choice.
While this will never make it into my top-10, for the style of film it was, it was very good, and I fully enjoyed watching it. It was money much better spent than on either of the two Matrix sequels...