Tilda Swinton is the best part of this film!

Rating: 5/10 (8 February 2005)

I went to the premiere in Taiwan yesterday. I like this film, but I have to say that it's not very "good". I like it because I love Keanu's face, I love any story about the devil-like good vs. the angelic evil, and I love the angel Gabriel (I'll say more about this later). Therefore I didn't really care whether Keanu's performance is good (in fact it's not) or how stupid the love scenes go in the film. Thank God and Satan, there are only about three scenes in which the director try to persuade us that there are something romantic between Constantine and Angela. He failed. Those scenes last only 1 or 2 minutes, so that's OK.
The angel Gabriel is a big surprise. I didn't know that Tilda Swinton played a part in this film. She's amazing, powerful, and funny. She's the most lovely angel I've ever seen in any films, and I hope this film would become a sequel--just for the chance to see her again. If there are enough people love Tilda's Gabriel like I do, maybe we would have the luck to see Gabriel in Constantine II. (Or just shoot another film "Gabriel", I would definitely go for it.)