Product: Constantine [Blu-ray] (2012)
Rating: 1.0
Rachel Weisz and Peter Stormare are about the only sparks of life in this lifeless horror thriller.
Unimaginative supernatural horror thriller that rather treat the audience like idiots than to give them a story with any meaning. Keanu Reeves lacks the acting chops to pull off his character's moral dilemma and the screenplay lacks credibility with its juvenile dialog and halfhearted views on the subject that it's trying to cover. It's more and less a big budget version of the television show "Angel" but with out it's cleaver writing or it's interesting look at the war between Good versus Evil. The direction by first time director Frances Lawrence lacks coherency and certain scenes don't jell in terms of narrative. The only actors in the movie who manages to transient the bad script and misdirection of the director is Rachel Weisz (Runaway Jury,The Shape of Things) who does give the movie's only compelling performance and the great Peter Stormare(Cocolat,Fargo) whose five minute cameo as the devil has more meat than the main character himself. Weisz and Stourmare are about the only positive things that come out of this supernatural debacle and if the studio wanted to make good movie, they could have just focus their energies at Rachel Weisz and Peter Stourmare and have the movie revolved around their characters instead of the uninspired character of John Constantine and could have made a real and scary supernatural thriller.Too bad that it's the audience who have a better imagination that the people who made this film.