Product: Constantine [Blu-ray] (2012)
Rating: 2.0
Hollywood had two great writers to use and yet prove they can burn the best
Alan Moore created this anti-hero in Saga of the Swamp Thing...Little did he know that his trench coat chain smoking english man would become one of the back stones to DC Comics modern Vertigo comic series...... To push John into a further realm which this movie is based apon Garth Ennis gave a new and darker gritty side to Constantine..... (most of this movie is based off of Dangerous Habits((by Ennis)) although it goes back some plots from issues 1-10 and some other various parts of the 200 plus saga of Hellbalzer....) Yet, from the word go hollywood is able to take from the simplist things and just throw it all away. First off what was wrong with Contanine being British???? Aye, this film was overall aimed for the American audience but, when has it been bad to have a british character???? More or less never.... Americans love british people more than Keuna Reeves... Seriously Hollywood more or less had two of the best comic book writers in the last thirty years to take from on this story and they just threw it away and went with what they thought was good.....And to top it off right before this movie came out DC made an offical version of this to be adapted to comic format and still scenes were cut and made differently before it went to the big screen....As, if to just rub salt in the wound that hollywood can't even follow it's own rules... For those who know nothing of Hellblazer or Constantine this movie can be outright confusing because the director assumed you've read the comic series which was a critcal mistake because this is a rather complex character. Not, that it's impossible to make a two hour film on a long series comic character. Look to Spider Man 1 or Conan....Both took a well know character and took the basicness of what made them good and made a good film on them....As to those who gave this movie a 5 or 4 rating regardless of what they know about hellblazer are unfortinatly idiots that think Krull was great or Ghostbusters 2..... So, if you never were thrilled with Blair Witch, Ghostbusters 2, Aliens 3 ect....than you know to stay far far away from this film.....But, if you liked matrix 3, Robocop 3, Krull than by all means rent or buy this film.....