Product: Constantine [Blu-ray] (2012)
Rating: 1.0
Truly, Truly Terrible
Dreary action thriller that would like you to believe that its about something when it's really about nothing. Keanu Reeves gives another one of his great wooden performance as a supernatural detective who helps a cop (Rachel Weisz) try to solve apparent suicide of her twin sister unknowing of the dark forces that are at work. Safe to say that Keanu is ready to save the world again but when he does it, you don't believe a single thing he does because you don't believe him in the role. The movie would have been better served if they got an actor who would have played the role a bit more maturely and with a bit more feeling but Reeves just seem more like a cry baby than a man who know what he is doing and he just does not come across well in the role. The script unfortunately adds fuel to the fire with its unfocused story and lousy lines of dialog, which is literally over juvenile for a movie that has such dark themes. The direction also adds nothing in terms of helping the movie out of its dilemma with way too many unfocused shots and too many unnecessary scenes that adds nothing to the movie at all.There is some good in this movie and it comes from Rachel Weisz, who gives the movie's only stellar performance. She's so good that you feel like you're watching a better movie with her on the screen while you know deep down that the movie is not as good as her performance. Another good performance comes from Peter Stormare who is criminally underused in a bit part as the devil himself. His performance is ten times more potent than the lousy performance of Keanu Reeves as the lead and he's only in the film for about five minutes.I don't know exactly what went wrong with this film but if the producers of the movie wanted to make a better film, they just could have cut Keanu out all together and just focus on the great performance of Weisz and Stormare. Add a director who knows what he is doing and a script that makes sense and you have a great movie there. This movie unfortunately is not very good and you can thank Keanu and the director for that.