Product: Constantine [Blu-ray] (2012)
Rating: 4.0
The comfort behind Reeves' bad acting
Lately, I have been at peace with just how lousy an actor Keanu Reeves is. Of late, I've been able to watch movies of his with my opinion of his talent secure--he will be awful, but since he's not such a bad guy personally, I'm not offended by the fact that he continues to get work (unlike such dweebs as Van Damme and Seagal, who are abominable at both acting and human being-ness).I first came to this realization in _Matrix Revolutions_, aside from being awed by the innovation that occured with writing and directing for Reeves--Neo spends almost the entire movie being unsure of the meaning behind most everything he says. Since this is Reeves when acting anyway, I found this to be a wonderful way to make his lack of skills work for a movie.And all this let me sit back and not be bothered by his efforts in this film. Granted, he has some 'tough guy' moments that are purely laughable, but instead I was able to get into the story despite him, and there are some real intriguing turns to this. It would be tough to be particular about what impressed me about the storyline, for this would give away almost everything at the end, but I did like how the game between God and Lucifer for souls was played out here--how there are rules, and how neither entity is allowed to interfere directly in the human game of choice and assignment of the soul, but despite that there are some interesting moves and moves within moves to make the last 20 minutes or so of these really worth watching.So, to sum up--Keanu bad (acting wise), story thoughtful, but you do have to sweat it out until the end to get to the really interesting stuff.