Lack of ambition

Rating: Null/10 (3 September 2009)

John Constantine is a supernatural detective and an exorcist who teams up with Angela Dodson, a policewoman to investigate the suicide of Angela's twin sister.The action occurs in earth and in hell as Constantine fights demons and tries to change his fate...I'm not familiar with the comic book Constantine is based on but I love the premise.I love the story,I love the main character,I love the duality between earth and hell, good and evil,angels and demons and so on.However the movie disappointed me. Even tough there are quite a few action scenes and lots of amazing special effects I felt bored at times.It just wasn't that interesting.Constantine could have been an epic movie.I mean, I can't think of a subject more epic then this one, it almost seems like the director wasn't ambitious enough and settled for some great gci and a boring story.He should have written an argument of epic proportions,something larger then life.Onto the positive things, as I said before the gci was in fact very good and the acting was amazing,Peter Stormare,Tilda Swinton,Rachel Weisz, even Gavin Rossdale had a good presence.Shia Labeouf and Djimon Honsou were good but not great. But the star was obviously Keanu Reeves. Great performance.He seems to be really good at playing this kind of flawed,chosen heroes(see Neo in Matrix).
6/10