Rotten
Blazes few new trails and bogs down in a confusing narrative muddle.
Brian Lowry, Variety
Constantine
Hell wants him. Heaven won't take him. Earth needs him.
2005 · 2h 1m · R
Action, Fantasy, Horror
Directed by
Francis Lawrence
Overview
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
Director and cast
- Francis Lawrence Director
- Keanu Reeves as John Constantine
- Rachel Weisz as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
- Shia LaBeouf as Chas Kramer
- Djimon Hounsou as Midnite
- Max Baker as Beeman
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as Father Hennessy
- Gavin Rossdale as Balthazar
- Tilda Swinton as Gabriel
- Peter Stormare as Lucifer
- Jesse Ramirez as Scavenger
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
46%
Tomatometer
Rotten
I deeply loathe the Heaven-and-Hell genre to which this cinematic comic-book spectacular belongs.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
Halfway through Constantine, a fully clad Keanu Reeves steps into a shallow pail of water, sits on a chair next to it and holds a cat in his lap.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Rotten
Peaks early, then descends into portentous nonsense.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Fresh
Reeves, meanwhile, has confidently entered his self-parodic period.
Ken Tucker, New York Magazine/Vulture
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