Constantine Reviews and Ratings



  • November 22, 2009
    A fun, noir-supernatural mashup with some great special effects and a really interesting perspective on religion. The action is well done and easy to follow.
  • November 22, 2009
    There's something about this movie that caught me. I can't explain, but I really like it.
  • November 16, 2009
    Nice special effects and suspense. I personally did quite ignore the religious implications :P
  • November 15, 2009
    "your the one soul i'd come get myself"
    "so i've heard"....
  • November 13, 2009
    I hated this movie because it's so damn fake. I can't stand all the BS they put in the movie. Sure they put angels, demons, God and the Devil but nothing goes according to the Bible.
  • November 12, 2009
    freakin awesome movie
  • November 11, 2009
    Interesting religious ideas about angels and satan, worth watching but no big deal.
  • November 11, 2009
    There is something about these crazy stories that I love! I can watch this movie over and over again. It's so dark and weird!
  • November 8, 2009
    is very conqueroring!
  • November 6, 2009
    wow ang ganda means wonderful
  • November 5, 2009
    Easily passed off as a cynical, Catholic version of the Matrix, but it holds its own as a horror thriller and has some fun moments for scifi and horror fans.
  • November 5, 2009
    It was a little too dark but really intriguing.
  • November 4, 2009
    churro. Se salva por Rachel Weisz...
  • November 2, 2009
    awesome movie about demons
  • October 31, 2009
    This movie is a cross between 2 great movies The Exorcist and Blade, but the problem is its not as good as either. The story isn?t very engaging and I dont really give a crap about the main character. Although like dragon tiger gate it has one really awesome scene with a crucifix...( read more) gun that is shot so well. Unfortunately it isnt enough to make me watch the whole movie again.
  • October 30, 2009
    it wz thrilling to watch it!!!!!
  • October 18, 2009
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  • October 17, 2009
    I had read the Hellblazer graphic novels before seeing this and felt maybe Bruce Willis would've been a better choice as John Constantine. But Keanu didn't do a bad job. He was helped, however, by the presence of Rachel Weisz, who just a year later won her first Oscar (The Consta...( read more)nt Gardener). A cool special effects action movie, though not as good as it should be with a supporting cast that includes Tilda Swinton and Shia LaBoeuf.
  • October 10, 2009
    Kinda cool the way he zaps creatures and does spells
  • October 7, 2009
    comic book adaptation starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Tilda Swinton and Shia LaBeouf. directed by Francis Lawrence.

    John Constantine (Reeves) has been to Hell and back and now, using his abilities to see demons, angels and spirits, is trying to earn his way into Heaven. whe...( read more)n Constantine meets a skeptic police officer (Weisz) whose sister died mysteriously, he finds himself in the middle of Lucifer's son's plot to make his own "Hell on Earth".

    great story and a great cast. Keanu is once again badass and Swinton as Gabriel = genius.

    good stuff. ♥
  • October 7, 2009
    interesting storyline.
  • October 6, 2009
    verry very cool movie!yhe most interesting!
  • October 2, 2009
    I've always had a problem with Keanu Reeves' acting. He was terribly cast. He screwed up big time for this role. The rest of the cast were terrific. Shia LaBeouf was my favourite. Rachel Weisz and Tilda Swinton were also very good. The film has a lot of fun moments with the speci...( read more)al effects and action sequences, and those were great. The script's decent to bad and the screenplay was ok. They also kept trying to make it like a mix of Blade and Exorcist. This is a film I would watch again, it's fun and cool. It's not a movie I am very enthusiastic about, but I'd say you should watch it at least once.
  • September 29, 2009
    Se supone que Jhon Constantine es rubio, pero ya que...
  • September 29, 2009
    A special imagery that borrows from insanity and the gruesome; as dark as Sin City and as crazy as a japanese anime.
  • September 24, 2009
    Keanu Rivers Radiant
  • September 18, 2009
    I liked it but graphic novels are so much better. It should have been set in England and I would be more upset about that but unfortunately, I really don't think there are any English directors good enough to take on the project. Harsh but true!
  • September 17, 2009
    Constantine é loiro, não moreno. Mas foi um bom filme.
  • September 17, 2009
    A very cool and entertaining horror film that wastes an awesome plot and elements horribly and in a boring, disappointing way. Liked it though...

    54/100
  • September 16, 2009
    fantastic movie.Keanu Reeves was damm kool in the movie. plot of the movie ws also grt with all that angels and demon
  • September 15, 2009
    I LOVE THIS KIND OF MOIE! NOT TOO GORRY.
  • September 12, 2009
    awesome movie! i liked it
  • September 11, 2009
    Super scary yet I find it weird when the demon utter our own language "Papatayin natin sila".
  • September 11, 2009
    no es tan sensacional pero vale la pena verla
  • September 10, 2009
    I'm not sure if it would have been possible for me to have been more disappointed in this movie. It's such a miserable "adaptation" that it's laughable to even call it an adaptation, I feel compelled to use quotes. However, taken just by itself, it's a decent flick. If they ha...( read more)dn't tried to claim it was in any way related to the John Constantine / Hellblazer material, and just called it "Joe the Demon-Killer" or something, I'd give it three stars, it was basically enjoyable. As an adaptation, however, I think giving it one full star might be too generous. So I'll compromise and do two stars, and feel generous about it. (Edit: I just can't give it two stars, either, sorry.)

    If you've never heard of Hellblazer, you might enjoy this movie just fine. Some interesting weird concepts, some action, cool special effects, good or better performances. If you're a Hellblazer fan at all, though, I wouldn't bother. This is the equivalent of deciding to adapt Peter Pan, but casting an obese black man as Peter, setting it in Malibu instead of London, and deciding it'll be about skateboarding instead of pirates and lost boys.

    For those who need further details: Instead of a cocky smartass Scouse who looks like Sting, we get Keanu Reeves. Instead of London we get L.A. Instead of a willful trickster-occultist, Constantine is an unwilling "psychic" who can see ghosts and demons but doesn't want to. Instead of him being blond with a London Fog coat, he's dark-haired with a black hipster coat. Instead of his attitude of scorn for heaven and hell alike, he's desperately trying to kiss up to Heaven in order to redeem his soul. Instead of a con-man and trickster who's crap at fighting, we get a "holy shotgun"-wielding badass who's ready to step into the video game version of the movie. Instead of the Newcastle backstory of a botched exorcism that led to a young girl's death, we get a trite backstory about John's suicide attempt, for which his soul is now damned in an inexplicable assumption of Catholic cosmology. Instead of demons, we get some new crap about "halfbreed demons".

    While most of the movie's characters weren't in any of the books, a handful of the main characters are taken from the books, though most are changed as much as Constantine is. Chas was a late-thirties tough-guy who hated getting dragged into John's demonic crazyness, but the movie makes him a twenty-two year-old nervous cabbie kid who wants to be Constantine's "apprentice". Midnite is a deadly enemy of John's in the books, but in the movie he's made into a neutral party or grumpy ally. Gabriel is a man in the books but a woman in the movie, and despite Swinton's great performance, the character has been sapped of most of the depth and substance it had in the books.

    But most of the movie's characters and plot elements are completely fabricated and have nothing to do with any of the Hellblazer books. Supposedly based on "Dangerous Habits", the movie discarded all but a few slivers of that book's plotlines, and came up with some weird contrived new "halfbreed" thing. Never in 20+ books did "halfbreed demons" get mentioned -- and there was never any Angela, never any Beeman, never any Mammon. I'm not against new ideas, but with 20+ books of great material why make something up? If you liked the Helblazer material, why change it until it's barely recognizable? And if you didn't think it was good material, why adapt it? What the hell.
  • September 3, 2009
    it's a dark, yet dazzling film. A terrific story backed up by spectacular special effects and great cinematography pull us into a dark and dangerous world, a world where half-angels and half-demons whisper to us mortals as God and Satan use us as pawns in an apocalyptic game of c...( read more)hess. Cursed with ability too see these spirits
  • September 1, 2009
    my girlfriend likes this so its hard for me 2 dislike it.
  • August 31, 2009
    Ya know, I did not have any interest in watching this and then caught it on TV and it was actually pretty good....go figure.
  • August 27, 2009
    i just thnk its awesum
  • August 26, 2009
    really nice one!! :D
  • August 24, 2009
    "Hell wants him. Heaven won't take him. Earth needs him."

    Based on the DC/Vertigo comic book Hellblazer and written by Kevin Brodbin, Mark Bomback and Frank Capello, Constantine tells the story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), who has ...( read more)literally been to hell and back.

    REVIEW

    Keanu Reeves and Rachael Weisz find themselves in a qualitatively superior occult thriller that continues to move the genre forward. With quick elements of the Exorcist at the beginning and the more darker elements of Dogma, Constantine has great special effects that are awesome, sweeping in their intensity, has a great dose of humor at the right moments (that are light and not sickly sweet), has a script and plot that makes sense. This much more evil Ghostbuster production that avoids the Matrix elements and sticks to the roots of good and evil and the ambivalence of great forces at work. Constantive adds literally a different flesh to occult movies, making sure that the constant tension and fear remain drippingly creepy throughout the movie. The ending is strong instead of the weak horror copout version and has nice bite.
  • August 24, 2009
    Surprisingly I liked it. The concept was interesting.
  • August 24, 2009
    I had the man-sized movie display in my room when the movie got released in stores. I guess you can say I enjoyed the film. It's always pleasing to watch Keanu work. Another Lucifer I thoroughly enjoyed from Stormare, as well.
  • August 23, 2009
    When I went to Blockbuster store and spent my money on this film, I was expecting something much better from what I watched.
  • August 20, 2009
    good special effect..the storuline is easy to be understand...like it alot..
  • August 19, 2009
    heaven and hell and we are smack in then middle. makes you think dosn't it?
  • August 17, 2009
    It would probably have been better if Keanu Reeves had more than one facial expression. Also, they killed off my favorite character. :(

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