Product: Constantine [Blu-ray] (2012)
Rating: 1.0
You must be joking?
Sub-standard action-horror movie that has all the makings of a good movie but lacks the right edge to push it forward. Keanu Reeves tries but fails in his role because of the way his character is written and not to mention the way he played his character as well. You actually think that he's making a joke out of the film with his very bad Clint Eastwood imitation but he stays in that mold thou out the entire film and you just get sick of it after a while. You don't care about him as a person at all and you just want to hit at some points of the film because of his stupidity. Anti-heroes have a reason for their behavior and have the right kind of sympathy for their characters as well for the audience to care about what they are doing but you really don't care about Reeves character at all and you don't give a damn about what happens to him because there is really no back story to hold what he is doing as reasonable. He's actually not very important to the story at all and is just there to fill space. The movie actually could have worked better with Rachel Weisz's character as the lead because she at the very least makes you care about what is happening with the film and what will happen with her character as well. Weisz not only deserves all the praise she has been getting from those who have seen the film but her performance is actually way too mature for this sloppy film to handle. She gives a very complex and sophisticated performance with a very deep rooted character that has more levels of reality than this movie has and that's where the movie fails because it rather be a dumb special effects film than a mature horror movie that actually makes you think about what is going on. Weisz's performance not on makes you think but makes you wish that you were seeing a better film with just her character in it. The story makes no sense at all because it contradicts itself on several occasions and has a couple of loose plot points that does not further the story at all. It also has a big revelation at the end that makes no sense what so ever and is not even hinted at doing the course of the first three-quarters of the film. There was a lot of potential for this to be an excellent film but with a very bad screenplay and a lackluster performance by Keanu Reeves, the film really had a up hill battle to be any good and in a sense, it is because of Rachel Weisz's amazing performance but she is basically by herself in what is any good this movie really has.