Thought provoking for the moderate believers

Rating: 9/10 (6 August 2005)

It is likely (as I've read from past comments here) that this movie does not necessarily do the original Jack Constantine series justice. But for those who have not heard of the original Contantine series they might find the movie somewhat acceptable when judged on its own merits.
The target audience, however, is not easily discerned. Perhaps a direct relation can be made to relapsed catholics and moderate Christians. I found the story interesting even though I know of more extreme constituencies that would readily claim to be offended by everything portrayed within the movie.
It speaks to the daily struggle that believers have to reconcile modern lifestyles with their fledgling faith and their own state of health and mind. Even though the believer's reality is cast in a more literal, exaggerated form, the main points are not lost in my opinion. Here are some of the important ones: No one great or small should claim to know the true will or pretend to understand God. If they cross that threshold where they truly believe they have a personal understanding of God and His wishes, they are rightly deemed to be quite mad and should be confined to a small padded room as soon as possible. No exceptions.
There is a purpose and direction in everyone's lives. Death is not necessarily the final goal or destination.
Attentions are still bestowed upon us all on an individual basis even while globular events both bad and good are occurring all the time. The individual pieces of the world mosaic are not overlooked or forgotten. An accounting will inevitably be made of each of us because that is the way of this world. If we allow the fear of personal failures to overwhelm our lives and let addictions however insidiously fixate us to the point of complete immobility, the cost may still be our very soul.
The waves will still smash down on the beaches regardless of who is still within them or on top of them. And that, my friends, is the true meaning of life. The forces of God and nature can not be refuted by man.