Product: Constantine [Blu-ray] (2012)
Rating: 4.0
Not Citizen Kane, But...
Constantine isn't Citizen Kane, but then few movies are. I've heard it compared unfavorably to The Exorcist, but heretically I must disagree. The Exorcist has always seemed more funny than scary, OR believeable, and this just gets worse as the years go by. (The scariest bit of the Exorcist was over by minute 10 in the movie). Perhaps it makes a difference if you're a Catholic instead of a Prod.ANYWAY, this movie is NOT muddled, it sounds just fine on a normal TV, (can't comment upon home theater), is not a great copy of the comic books, but frankly that is an improvement in my view. That being said this was a pretyy darn good supernatural action-type thriller. The theology was not so bad (aside from mixing up verse references in the Bible: book, chapter, verse). All in all I was astounded to find that the movie did not get a better reception. I DO have suspicions however.At the end of " Ironman " there is one of those irritating "after movies". The room was full of comic book nerds and when S. Jackson came on the screen they all ooohhed " Nick Fury!!!". My son and I who saw it with my brother (who is a comic book nerd) laughed out loud and pissed off my bro. Some of these folks demand exact correspondence to their childhood fantasies, and when they don't get them they take their revenge. All that I can say for it is that I liked it quite a bit as a stand alone movie and wish that they had made more.