Oh, go to hell...

Rating: 4/10 (30 July 2005)

I don't know the comic book (or is that "graphic novel"?) "Hellblazer", but the movie "Constantine" was sure a mess. Essentially another everyman-battles-the-devil story, we basically get to see what Father Karras would have been like if Keanu Reeves had played him. It wasn't awful by any stretch, but it would have been more interesting had they not saturated the movie with mind-numbing special effects; those Hell scenes were pretty silly. And overall, why does the "Bill and Ted" guy, aka the "Speed" guy, aka Neo, ever try to do serious roles? John Constantine sounds like an elderly Greek man's name, so why does he have to be someone who looks like he's about to say "dude" or "whoa"? Most importantly, why do we have to see another devil-themed movie every once in a while?