Constantine had the material and potential to be a great film, but it was worked with the wrong hands

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2009)

Constantine had a very interesting storyline and concepts of the ocult, the hell and heaven, and a very interesting character as well along with the mysterious and bizarre ambientation. Warner Pictures had a great graphic novel to work an adaptation, Hell Blazer, which features a lot of original material like few literary works can about the ocult, the religion, and mystery. However, when the directors previous works have been about a few TV episodes of not too popular TV series then you got problems... It could have been significtly better with a director with previous works and similar films. Keanu Reeves was not bad portraing John Constantine, however, I think it took his role of "Serious and Mysterious guy" too far, he is completely inexpressive in this film. Yeah, I know Keanu is not the most expressive actor ever but he could do better portraying a more depressed and sad constantine instead of a Neo kind character, all mysterious and inexpressive. The special effects were not bad but i think they could add a lot of more demons and action scenes, because the few this film has are too short and mediocre if you ask me. John could have a much more interesting fight with the insect demon, Balthazar, Gabriel, and also i think it short journey to hell should last longer, also that scene where he killed the demons in the sky was too short. I mean, the movie was long but it was concentrated on boring chats between Constantine and Angela. Im not saying the situations and scenes in this movie were bad, they were great in the initial idea but they were not well worked. Satan's actor was not compatible, Gabriel's angel suit was very bad disigned, and the fat guy who helped constantine was not too compatible with the actor if you ask me. Constantine's assistant, Chas, needed a bigger part in the film. In conclusion: The movie was very interesting, the storyline is very original, bizarre, mysterious, dark, the character is very interesting, the concept and ambientation are great but i think that if Keanu Reeves would acted a bit more according to his comic book character, They choosed a different director and give some details to the script it would have been an Excellent Film.