Constantine (2005)

Constantine is about a supernatural detective who helps a policewoman with the details of her sister's death.

The film is directed by Francis Lawrence who has a new movie coming out called Red Sparrow that I'm excited about viewing. Constantine has great visuals and good CGI for the time. He has some great shots and gets some great moments with everything that this needs to have. This was a real challenge and John Constantine is one of my favorite characters in the DC universe.

It's easy to name of Keanu Reeves movies but people tend to forget this one. Maybe it was just too weird at the time for the regular movie going audience to go see. Now, with movies like Guardians of the Galaxy with talking raccoons, this movie seems a bit tamer. Keanu is Keanu in this film. He doesn't really have the characteristics of Constantine but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Rachel Weisz, the girl from The Mummy, is in this and plays both Angela and Isabel Dodson. Her main character's sister has a small role in the movie. She isn't that bad in this film either. A solid performance and it makes me wonder why she doesn't get bigger roles. I think the last film I saw her in was The Lobster.

Shia LeBeouf is also in this film as Chas Kramer which is basically Chas Chandler if you follow the Hellblazer comics. The comics have him having a much different character as it's implied that he's the God of Healing. Either way, he's basically just Constantine's means of transportation and like in the comics, Constantine keeps Chas at a distance because of the nature of his work.

Gavin Rossdale and Tilda Swinton play Balthazar and Gabriel in the film. Tilda is great whereas Gavin just seems to be there to get all the teen-girls-in-the-2000s up in a frenzy. He's the lead singer of Bush by the way and was married to Gwen Stefani.

Result: B- (It's above average for the type of film it is)

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