get over Keanu as Constantine and you've got an enjoyable flick

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2005)

Completely disregard the comics, in every way. The comics are called Hellblazer, different name, different stuff. Watch this movie with a clean slate and you've got a pretty sweet movie that gets surprisingly harsh in what it is willing to show us - this flick doesn't pull any punches.
There is no shortage of reviews for this film on the internet, so that's as far as I'll go, but I will say this: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a terrible movie. It was unfaithful to its comics. It was bad even if you never read the comics. Constantine is a pretty sweet movie. It's unfaithful to its source material. I'm sure having read the comics you will find a lot of things to complain about here, but just let go and enjoy it. The comics will always be there for you when you get home from the theater, and if they managed to make an enjoyable film despite not remaining true to the source material, that's still quite a feat.
See it. Enjoy it.