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Product Description
Based on the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer graphic novels and written by Kevin Brodbin and Frank Cappello, Constantine tells the story of John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), a man who has literally been to hell and back. When he teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.
DVD Features:
Additional Scenes:Chas bowls. Surveillance video. Border patrol Hennessey?s apartment. Demonic tryst. Original Vermin attack. Background check. Password. Demonic escort. Constantine?s past. Light command. Last chance. Demon?s pardon. Alternate cemetery ending. A Writer's Vision
Alternate endings
Audio Commentary:Francis Lawrence with Akiva Goldsman Commentary Kevin Broadbin and Frank A Cappello Commentary
Deleted Scenes:Chas bowls. Surveillance video. Border patrol. Hennessey?s apartment. Demonic tryst. Original Vermin attack. Background check. Password. Demonic escort. Constantine?s past. Light command. Last chance. Demon?s pardon. Alternate cemetery ending. A Writer's Vision
Documentaries
Documentary:Foresight: The Power of Pre-Visualization with Optional Commentary by Francis Lawrence
Featurette
Music Video:Passive Music Video by A Perfect Circle
Other:In Movie Experience: During the feature, Director Francis Lawrence will lead an exploration of the plot, stunts, characters and filmmaking process of Constantine.
Theatrical Trailer
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In the grand scheme of theological thrillers,
Constantine aspires for the greatness of
The Exorcist but ranks more closely with
The Order. Based on the popular
Hellblazer comic book series, and directed with nary a shred of intelligence by music video veteran Francis Lawrence, it's basically
The Matrix with swarming demons instead of swarming machines. Keanu Reeves slightly modifies his
Matrix persona as John Constantine, who roams the dark-spots of Los Angeles looking for good-evil, angel-devil half-breeds to ensure that "the balance" between God and Satan is properly maintained. An ancient artifact and the detective twin of a woman who committed evil-induced suicide (Rachel Weisz) factor into the plot, which is taken so seriously that you'll want to stand up and cheer when Tilda Swinton swoops down as the cross-dressing angel Gabriel and turns this silliness into the camp-fest it really is. The digital effects are way cool (dig those hellspawn with the tops of their heads lopped off!), so if you don't mind a juvenile lesson in pseudo-Catholic salvation,
Constantine is just the movie for you!
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Not Faithful to It's Source, But Pretty Darn Good Regardless
'Constantine' is based on the D.C./Vertigo title 'Hellblazer', which is excellent. Rather than compare the two, I'll just rate it as a movie: John Constantine, who has managed to get himself locked out of Heaven and is so wanted by Hell that Kucifer himself refers to Constantine as the only soul he'd come up personally to get. You had to have done some serious wrongs to the devil in order to get that sort of attention. But the movie itself is pretty straightfoward - stop the devil's son from being born on Earth, or we'll all suffer for it. It's in the details that this film is a little different than the rest. It's got some new mythologies we haven't heard before, some new tricks and some pretty cool villians (not all of whom are from Hell or Earth). As an added bonus you manage to feel something even for the ancillary characters, which is a fun bonus. Very nice F/X, especially Hell. Most of the acting is pretty goo, especially the character of Gabriel. Keanu is fine, even if he...
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February 18, 2005
(New York City) | Helpful Votes: 214 | Rating: 4
Flawed, with Flashes of Brilliance
Dreadfully flawed and with a muddled story line, "Constantine" is nevertheless worth watching, for its occasional profound and intense beauty, and its visions of hell and its denizens, which anyone who believes that forces of evil exist and influence our world will find fascinating. Loosely based on characters from the Hellblazer comics, the script is very interesting in parts, but the audio is abysmal. The dialog sounds as if it is coming from an underwater tunnel, and I had to watch the film with subtitles. Also, this is a film that begs to be seen several times, to make some sense of the muddle.The cast is excellent, and I have always been partial to Keanu Reeves, who as John Constantine, a man dying of lung cancer, who can see, and has walked beyond this dimension, is very good in his own peculiar way. I can't imagine anyone else of his generation playing the part. As he says of the cat in the film, he's "half in, half out," and Reeves also has that quality, of being...
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July 24, 2005
(Long Beach, California) | Helpful Votes: 60 | Rating: 4
More clever and intellectually stimulating than exciting, but I guess that's not bad
I missed "Constantine" in theaters and thus looked forward to discovering for the first time via home viewing a quality motion picture adaptation of a popular comic book character. And, in the end, I did enjoy the film. Just be warned that it isn't like the "Spider-Man" movies. Unlike those earlier films, "Constantine" is more interesting and intellectually stimulating than exciting.In particular, I enjoyed the film's somewhat subversive vision that the goals and objectives emanating from Heaven and Hell are sometimes laced with the same base political motivations that are often the springboards for the official positions held by powerful organizations here on Earth. I liked how the bad guys could be charming and somewhat sympathetic despite their Hellish origins, and how the holy characters (I'm mostly thinking of Tilda Swinton's Angel Gabriel character here) can come up with questionable and truly bizarre plans to rid the Earth of evil, even if it means something...
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August 4, 2005
(Philadelphia, PA USA) | Helpful Votes: 41 | Rating: 3
Spellbinding Entry Into The New Bourne Series!
