Thought-provocative, well-crafted plot, intense characterization

Rating: 9/10 (11 February 2005)

I think there is a little of John Constantine in all of us. You feel that life really is a little unfair and that you are a citizen in a benigh paternalistic autocratic universe that simply sucks. Who makes the rules of good and bad? A world-weary soul who has been seeking redemption for his past mistakes, Constantine is a in-your-face bastard who chain smokes, and drinks himself - to death literally.
How does the road to personal salvation mesh with the dire need to save the world? There lies the magic of the well-crafted plot. How does the ambivalent relationship between two identical twins - one embracing her role in the nature of things, and the other, suppressing her true self just to be like one of the masses - resolve? How does God, the Devil, and their spawns, and the Gabriel, and Balthazar play the game of quick-thinking-bluff-on-your-feet of poker chess such that the end is like a symphony in reverie - all aspects making sense and leaving the very questions that are asked resonating in you.