Keanu Reeves as a sort of super exorcist, still it's a fun to watch movie.

Rating: 6/10 (29 November 2009)

My first though when I started to see this movie was; this is some kind of exorcist film. Not quite wrong, but I would call it a super exorcist. A dilemma similar to the whole movie from 1974 called "the exorcist" was here solved in about 10 minutes and then Keanu Reeves goes of to kill demons, monsters, visit hell and fight angels. Obviously this movie has a lot of Catholic, religious and occult stories mixed together. But it is a fun fantasy movie with an obvious horror film feel to it.
Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, has by many critics been called his worst performance, I fail to see why. It's not his best, but I felt he created a very cool and enigmatic character. Rachel Weisz as Angela Dodson was just plain good. Shia LaBeouf as Chas Kramer was a good character, which sadly was forgotten in about half the movie and never got the chance to evolve. They should have involved him more into the film or just ditched the whole character. Tilda Swinton as Gabriel and Peter Stormare as Satan is just great.
The effects like most movies today, are great. What can I say, it's a lot of high budget CGI that creates some really cool demons and monsters.
I give this movie a 6/10. Half original idea, good acting, but moved a little slow. Still fun to watch if you like religious based horror films.