Anti-tobacco

Rating: 6/10 (22 February 2005)

Quite a good movie as far as it concerns me;one of the first movie scenes which was this of exorcism surpasses others of Exorcist and Exorcist The Beginning;interesting I found the visions of Hell(mostly) and Heaven,also the idea of hybrids between two worlds like Gabriel and Balthazar who have the power of influence and turning the balance on one side. The character of Lucifer was gorgeous:dressed all in pearl-white and presented almost like belonging to Heaven he gives the life back to Constantine so he could long to take him back to Hell later when his sins kill him.That's when Constantine stops smoking! What a hell of a big joke: no doubt the movie could be proclaimed as the greatest anti-tobacco advertiser,maybe too early to say of the year and maybe not,taking in consideration the terrifying pictures of Hell on first place and then the fact that the great Constantine who is by the way also a kind of a hybrid,and who fights constantly the daemons,kills creatures of Hell and evil hybrids who take advantage of their force of influence on the Earth...this Constantine is dying of lung cancer!It's not Satan that is killing him-it's a cigarette. Explanation and meaning of "suicide" and "sacrifice" in the catholic religion is also interesting;two words,crucial for the turning and the ending of the "comics"...true it's very much a comics and fantasy but it's a good one.Special effects were OK except for the scene with the creature of insects...