Release Year: 2005 Rating: R Duration: 121 minutes Other Title: John Constantine: Hellblazer Director: Francis Lawrence Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner, Michael Aguilar, Richard Donner, Akiva Goldsman Distributor: Warner Bros.
John Constantine (Reeves) is a world-travelling, mage-like misfit who investigates supernatural mysteries and the like, walking a thin line between evil and good. Constantine teams up with a female police detective, Angela (Weisz), who seeks Constantine's help while investigating the suicide-like death of her twin sister. Does it have something to do with a mysterious group called "The First of the Fallen"? And what is it about Constantine that puts him in a position where he is making deals with representatives from both Heaven and Hell?
While not as poorly-made as "The Order" or "Stigmata," "Constantine" is inevitably another excursion into the absurd genre I have dubbed 'Thrillers of the Cloth,' where Catholic ideas and imagery are used in asinine, inexplicable ways for the sake of entertaining angry teenage boys. Not offensive, mind you, because to anyone who has attended Sunday school more than once, these films must play like the Farley Brothers.