Product: Constantine [Blu-ray] (2012)
Rating: 2.0
Really deserves the bad word of mouth.
I saw this film up here in Boston the other night and it was pretty bad. The special effects are not done well and The monsters look ok but I have seen better. When you look at them up close, they lose their impact because you can see that they are computer generated and they are badly done to boot. The hell version of earth is fine but it gets repetitive after a while and it also loses its impact after multiple viewing.As for the acting,Keanu Reeves was the wrong choice to play this role. He comes off really bad in some scenes of the film and he looks like a chump next to his fellow actors. Rachel Weisz, who I agree with most who have written their views is the best thing in this movie and the reason why is the fact that she actually gives more to her character than the script does, which basically give her and everyone around her some of the worse dialog I have heard in some time. I wanted to know more about her and her sister and liked the way that she handled the things happing in the film because she dealt with them in a realistic way, unlike Keanu who was doing a really bad Bogart imitation. I felt bad for her because her performance is better than what the movie deserved and the film really does not do her performance any justice. An another actor who gets shafted is Djimon Hounsou, who is ten times the actor Keanu is but is reduced to playing a witch doctor that owns a nightclub full of Demons and Angels. The rest of the film is reduced in the last half to a post matrix like atmosphere than goes against what the movie set up hour before and the loopholes in logic with the story brings the last fifteen of the movie minutes to a grinding halt.It's a bad movie and it deserves the word of mouth.