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'CONSTANTINE' ANGST Reeves battles demons — inside and out — in this comic book adaptation now out on DVD
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Release Date: Feb 18, 2005; Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Jul 19, 2005; Genres: Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Suspense; With: Shia LaBeouf, Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz; Distributor: Warner Bros.
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For Keanu Reeves, going to hell and looking like hell are two very different propositions. As DC Comics/Vertigo occultist John Constantine, Reeves is an unexpectedly decent fit, all cigarette-punctuated, screw-this detachment, tackling demons mainly to square himself with God before imminently succumbing to lung cancer. It's a testament to music-video vet Francis Lawrence's stylishly straight direction that Reeves manages to look so incongruously robust in Constantine — even while brandishing a pair of cross-adorned brass knuckles — without eliciting unintended snickers.
EXTRAS Lawrence, two screenwriters, and a producer all sit in on the commentary, sounding remarkably unified in, say, their vision of Peter Stormare's devil-may-care Satan. A featurette spotlighting the source comics refreshingly cops to the movie having taken the blond, bristly, British antihero and given him a Hollywood makeover; an insert sampler of Constantine stories by DC talent serves a similar function.
Posted Jul 22, 2005
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