I liked it a lot

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2005)

Although a lot of people have trashed this movie, I really thoroughly enjoyed it. Keanu may not be the best actor in the world, but as this dark character involved in the supernatural I found him to do a great job. The plot, I thought, was pretty sound. Many others have said it leaves out all background story of other characters involved, and it does so for Chaz (Shia LaBeouf) and Beeman (Max Baker), but it's not very difficult to figure out background for some of the other characters. It's not exactly obvious or evident how Constatine comes to be who and what he is throughout the movie in his life, but it's pretty unimportant.
I didn't think the special effects were bad, as not all that many or extensive effects were used, and thought the wings on each of the "half-breed Angels" were totally awesome. I liked the minimal use of specific physical weapons and more the use of religious icons and symbols.
This may not be the deepest movie of the year, as it's pretty simple and surface, but I thought it was enjoyable, fun, interesting, had enough action to keep me interested without making it what I would call a purely action movie. I enjoyed it enough to see it twice opening weekend, and I'd recommend it to most everyone I know.