Product: Constantine [Blu-ray] (2012)
Rating: 1.0
Overloaded cinematic dud.
Overloaded supernatural thriller that manages to not only insult the people who are fans of the comic book which this film is based on but insults the audience with one of the worse written and feebly plotted films in history. You will not only take apart this film for it sheer lack of a story but you would want to take Keanu Reeves head off for giving one of his worse performance ever in a major film. He's so bad in fact that you just would want to turn away from him every time he is on screen because of how bad his performance is. The really sad thing about this film is the fact that there are two very good performances that almost makes you want to like the movie you are watching. The first and best of these performance belongs to Rachel Weisz, whose dark and rich performance as a homicide cop makes you take a pause and wonder on how much potential this film could have had if they could have just centered the film around her and her character. She not only gives an amazing performance but also almost redeems Keanu's horrible acting as well, which is not a very easy thing to do. I agree with almost every review written that she is not only the best thing about the movie but she is its real heart and soul. The second good performance in the film belongs to Peter Stormare, who very, very brief role as the devil himself has more scares and more tension than the movie itself. He's not only campy but sly and dangerous as well and his brief introduction at the end of the film almost saves the last act of the movie, which is ruined by a very bad plot point that makes absolutely no sense at all and was not even hinted at during the course of the entire film. Unfortunately for both Weisz and Stormare plus the audience themselves, the movie is more of a showcase for very bad computer effects that loses it's impact after the first three minutes of the film than a character study on good and evil and that's where the movie falters. It rather insult the audience than treat them with respect and if they had better people behind the scenes making this film, this would have been a real movie with some substance other than a over flashy Keanu Reeves film with no soul.Imagine how good this film would have been if you had the good script, tight direction and based it around Rachel Weisz and Peter Stormare great performances. That would have been golden.