Film review only. I had not heard of this film before, or the comic book series Hellblazer which it's loosely based on. I do like a good horror film though and as I'm a fan of Keanu Reeves I thought it worth watching on ITV last night. Rated as an R, I thought I was in for some scares and I wasn't disappointed. The Plot. The film opens with a young Mexican man finding an unusual object we later find out is the legendary Spear of Destiny, the spear that pierced Christ's body on the Cross. From that moment he is possessed and makes his way to Los Angles where some heavy demonic activity is disturbing the balance of good and evil. Fighting ...  Read the complete review

Forget the fan boy fury. The decision to cast Keanu Reeves as the blond, British chain-smoking John Constantine is not what sinks this film. It's the fact it's a big steaming pile of cow dung that does that. You could have cast the blondest, most British actor you could think of and it wouldn't have changed a thing. True Reeves doesn't help, with a staggeringly wooden performance, even by his standards. In the comics, John Constantine is bitter, cynical and sarcastic; in Reeves World, he has no personality. In the comics, he is a somewhat tragic, sympathetic character; in Keanu Land, emotion is something to do with a bowel movement caused by illegal ...  Read the complete review

It seems that every second film these days is an adaptation of a graphic novel. Everyone is keen to jump on the bandwagon and bring the comic book to the big screen. However, some of these adaptations should never have been let on the bandwagon. In fact some of them should be pushed off and crushed under the wheels. This is one such film. Constantine is based on the graphic novel series, Hellblazer. The title comes from the main protagonist, John Constantine; a hard drinking kind of sorcerer who battles the nasty side of the occult, but sometimes utilises it too. He's one of the most mulitifaceted characters in the comic book universe, and as well as having ...  Read the complete review

Film Only Based on the 'Hellblazer' comic books Constantine was directed by Francis Lawrence and released in 2005. I have no previous knowledge of the comic and had no preconceived ideas as to what the film was about. I tend to like most things involving the supernatural and that's why it found its way into my DVD player. John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) was born with the gift of being able to see sprits roaming the earth. Finding himself stuck somewhere between heaven and hell he seeks redemption by teaming up with sceptical cop Angela Dodson to help solve the death of her twin sister Isabel. They step into the Los Angeles underworld to find not ...  Read the complete review

Ok I have never read the comics, so cannot tell you how true to the comic the movie is (according the other reviews though - not true at all lol). In a world where Demons and Angels exist, there is John Constantine, a guy who once committed suicide, yep the mortal sin, as he could see these demons and wanted a way out. He died and went to Hell but was revived. Knowing exactly where he is going for his sin, John tries to 'buy' his way into Heaven and back into God's good books by sending demons back down to Hell. He is running out of time though as he actually is dying of lung cancer. Enter Angela, who's identical twin has ...  Read the complete review