Mindless crap of action and gore.

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2005)

With due respect, watching this film in theatre for nearly two hours is kinda torture to the mind and eyes. I'm not a fan of the comic book, in fact I never read them; I only saw the movie for Keanu Reeves since he is one my favorite actors. And to tell the truth, it is the most intolerable Keanu film after "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". It's not that he acted badly here, he tried his best to play a character who is nothing like him (a patient of chronic pulmonary emphysema all well-built and handsome?), it's just that the film is so baseless and crazy and monotonous and filled with unnecessary gore and unrelated action sequences, the overall effect is unsatisfactory. And the ending? so cheap and mindless. It's a relief after all that there's no romantic interest between Constantine and Angela.
I know I'm not supposed to criticize the original comic book which the movie is based upon, but it can't be avoided. Why is Keanu wasting himself being in such B-grade movies? This role loosely resembles his role in the Matrix trilogy-- savior of mankind, that white shirt and black suit, the haircut, the accent... all the same. And for Rachel Weisz, she is brilliant in this film. But that's not the point. It's not good to see these two fairly good actors of our time in these kind of mindless action/horror junk. We like to see them in quality films, not always drama, romance etc but in all genres.
Points to see this movie:- Good special effects, fairly good acting throughout, nice background music etc. Let's not discuss the points that are not in favor of it. They are plenty!