FILM REVIEW
Constantine
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Gavin Rossdale,
Djimon Hounsou
Classification: 16V
Running Time: 121 min
Opens On: 4 Mar 2004
Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to recognize the
half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human camouflage,
Constantine was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting
clarity of his vision. But he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he
found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an
attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly
border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way to
salvation by waging war on the earthbound minions of evil.
But Constantine is no saint. Increasingly disillusioned by the world
around him and at odds with the one beyond, he's a hard-drinking,
hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroism. Constantine
will fight to save your soul but he doesn't want your admiration or your
thanks - and certainly not your sympathy.
All he wants is a way out.
When a desperate but sceptical police detective Angela Dodson enlists his
help in solving the mysterious death of her beloved twin sister, their
investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that
exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a
catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably
involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.
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