Product: Constantine [Blu-ray] (2012)
Rating: 2.0
BEEN THERE, SEEN THAT
His soul damned for a suicide gone wrong, John Constantine wonders the streets of Los Angeles, CA looking for demons to exorcise from human hosts in an attempt to buy his way into heaven ("If I send enough demons back to hell, he'd have to let me in"). That's your plot. Along the way, he occassionally runs into demons on the loose ("I just got attacked by a demon right out in the open"), an angel (Gabriel) who's motivation for interacting with Constantine is questionable (this angel even curses) and the occasional trip back to hell (kind of cool in a post-apocolyptic-futuristic-wasteland kind of way). Constantine, you see, has the gift of being able to see demons like few other humans.The effects were well done (especially a scene near the beginning of the movie where a guy is killed and rises) but unless a computer generated human can stand next to a real human and I'm not able to tell the difference, my reaction is "been there, seen that".The dialog and story are filled with pseudo-catholic mumbo jumbo which made little sense to me. Rachel Wiesz seems to get more stunning in every movie I've seen her play a roll. Tilda Swinton is pretty good (and funny) as Gabrial the angel. Keanu Reeves is dressed similar to Neo but speaks in the same tone as Agent Smith throughout the movie but I'm not a Keanu basher. I like the guy. Limited acting abilities be damned (pun unintended).I kept looking at my watch throughout the movie so I guess all in all, it pretty much was a waste of time. But it was slightly enjoyable.