Constantine (2005) - One of my favorite movies.
Hi all. In this post i will try to expose a small review of a very good action artistic film, one of the most favorite films i had the pleasure to watch. Honestly, it's been a good few years since i saw this movie. I liked it and i don't consider it horror, it's more of an adventure, a mystery.
The movie, as you can see from the title of this post, is called Constantine - it's a 2005 American action-fantasy film based entirely on comics, Hellblazer published by Vertigo Comics. This cinematic creation deserves that precious time - it contains scenes with many doses of black humor, sharp and appropriate lines, Keanu Reeves' charisma is indispensable, exceptional performances by all the other actors, effective music and directing at an intense level. So, i would have liked there to be a second part of this film with the same actor in the lead role.
A small summary of this fantastic film.
The film portrays the main character, John Constantine as a cynic who has that paranormal ability to communicate with those angels and demons who walk the earth in human skin, seeing them in their true form. He seeks salvation from eternal damnation in hell for a suicide attempt in his youth. Constantine deals with exorcisms of demons that he sends back to Hell, in his attempt to win the favor of Heaven, but he gets more and more tired over time.
Considering the fact that two well-known film actors (Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz) play in the film, you get the suspense but not like in other films of this kind - the special effects are good and the theme of the film is quite interesting. The story of the film is a bit more complex but not boring at all, and the horror scenes are from my point of view quite weak and a bit uninspired, in fact no scene managed to startle me, to give me that intense state of fear.
When a desperate but skeptical police detective (Rachel Weisz as Angela Dodson) asks him for help in solving a mysterious death of his beloved twin sister (also played by Raquel Weisz), their investigation leads them to the world of demons and angels that exist. just below the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Trapped in a catastrophic series of broken events from another world, the two become involved without escaping
A film in which i was impressed with how the idea of hell was made and expressed. If you expect it to terrify you, i honestly don't think it's the kind of movie that makes you to be scared. It's a film full of tension, a combination of action, drama and supernatural with a significant dose of special effects that make you feel bad when it's over. It is worth watching at least once in your life, carefully in a quiet and pleasant environment.