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Constantine

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Film Type : Action

Directed by : Francis Lawrence

Produced by :

Gilbert Adler
Michael Aguilar

Written by :

Kevin Brodbin
Frank Cappello

Starring :

Keanu Reeves
Rachel Weisz
Shia LaBeouf
Tilda Swinton
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Djimon Hounsou
Gavin Rossdale
Peter Stormare
Nicholas Downs
José Zúñiga
Francis Guinan
Jesse Ramirez
Max Baker

Music by :

Klaus Badelt
Brian Tyler

Cinematography Philippe Rousselot

Editing by : Wayne Wahrman

Distributed by : Warner Bros.

Release date(s) February 18, 2005 (2005-02-18)

Running time 121 minutes

Country United States

I simply watched and enjoyed Constantine entirely. Do you still remember it? I’m sure that everybody certainly interest to this film. It is very excellent because it relates to Father, our God, and human life, our life. I absolutely like it. We know that in this world, we don’t live alone, yet there’re a lot of devil around us.

Constantine is a movie tells us concerning a chain-smoking cynic, has promise with Lucifer (King of Devil). He has capability to drive away devils from the world, although in fact he should go to hell.

Constantine begins with story in Los Angeles, California, the find of Spear of Destiny. John Constantine (Keanu Revers) a chain-smoking cynic, has the ability to see half-demons and half-angels and also can drive away demons from the world. He simply has little chance to life cause of his lung cancer. He never think himself. He should go to Hell cause of his attitudes. Therefore, he wants to buy heaven for himself. He does everything best, except to stop his smoking. He seeks salvation from eternal damnation to hell for a suicide attempt in his youth, by sending half-demons back to Hell with his sidekick Chas (Shia LaBeouf). However, full demons have begun attempting to cross over. Gabriel tells him that as he does his exorcisms to escape Hell and for his own benefit, they are vain acts that won’t spare him. Until a day, he meets a girl Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz), who has a problem and asks for his help. She wants to investigate the reason of her twin’s death, Isabel. He accepts and goes to help her.

Upon attempting to speak with former witch-doctor turned owner of a nightclub that serves as neutral ground for half-breeds; Papa Midnite (Djimon Honsou) about this attack, he is rebuffed and dismissed. Constantine, with the help of his associates Beeman (Max Baker), Hennessy (Pruitt Taylor Vince), and Chas, begins investigating the situation.

With the help of Hennessy and Beeman, Constantine finds out that the demons are working for Mammon, Satan’s son, who wishes to create his own kingdom on Earth. In order for Mammon to come to Earth, he needs divine assistance and a powerful psychic, for which reason half-demon Balthazar (Gavin Rossdale) locates Isabel and Angela. Angela reveals that she possessed the same gift but denied hers to the point that it became inactive. At her request, Constantine reawakens it so she can see demons’ and angels’ true forms.

Constantine attacks and interrogates Balthazar, who reveals that Mammon has obtained the Spear of Destiny, which has the blood of Jesus Christ encrusted on it. Angela is kidnapped to be used as the portal for Mammon’s entrance to Earth. Constantine storms Midnite’s club and after a brief scuffle, Midnite allows Constantine access to “the chair,” an old electric chair from Sing Sing Prison that had killed over 200 people.

Gabriel (Tilda Swinton) as a good angel, knows that God’s creation humans in heavy sinfulness. So that, she wants to return humans into the better way of God’s love. She tries to bear the Devil’s child, named Mammon. The aim is to conscious human to comeback and feel totally the God’s love. To make it be reality, it needs good woman, Angela. John (Constantine) doesn’t want to help Angela more at first. Yet after know Gabriel’s plan, he tries to research and stop it. He really that his lives and all that he had done isn’t to get heaven, but to save other from devil. The most interest of this story is when Constantine goes to save Angela by sacrifice himself by kill his own life. It happens when Gabriel goes to bare Mammon from Angela’s stomach by using Spear of Destiny, which has the blood of Jesus Christ encrusted on it.

Time stops and Lucifer (Peter Stormare), who hates Constantine enough to collect his soul personally, arrives. Constantine tells Lucifer about Mammon’s plan and Lucifer sends Mammon back to Hell to keep Mammon from conquering Earth before him. Obvious Gabriel did it all without Lucifer’s permit. Gabriel attempts to smite Lucifer, but is relieved of its holy powers and defeated. She feels Someone doesn’t support her again, Father. In return for helping Lucifer, Constantine asks that Isabel be allowed to go to Heaven. Lucifer happily obliges but as Lucifer drags Constantine to Hell, Heaven appears before him. By sacrificing himself for Isabel, Constantine may enter Heaven.

When Lucifer brings John’s spirit go to Hell, he can’t take it all. Father takes him from Lucifer. As result, Lucifer gives John a chance to life again, by take out John’s cancer from him, and to fact that John match stay in hell.

Ultimately, John doesn’t go to hell. Cause what he has done to Angela’s life, is a sacrifice, not to get heaven as his first aim. By this, he becomes really doesn’t smoke again and conscious that everyone need him to help them go to better way, God’s love.

Constantine then gives the Spear to Angela and instructs her to hide it where no one can find it. The final shot before the credits reveals that Constantine has switched from cigarettes to nicotine gum.

On this occurred, John loses his beloved friends, Chas Kramer (Shia LaBeouf) and Beeman (Max Baker). After the credits, Constantine visits Chas’ grave and sees Chas rise into Heaven as an angel with huge wings on him. God works secretly. Several ones like it, yet other doesn’t.

This film is hard enough to be understood for the first audience. Cause there are a lot of parts are looked as fiction /unreality. Actually it is reality. This movie totally exciting. Audience are requested to imagine by themselves. Cause the ultimate story isn’t explained. For example, does Constantine will use his life rightly and go to heaven or not. And several parts else. Yet it’s OK. Everybody can free their imagination, and that’s makes this film so popular.

Keanu Revers, with his best talent in drama, brings out this aspect of the film terrificly. After he plays in best movie, Matrix , he plays in this movie very fantastic. He becomes conscious to change his life be more beautiful and useful. His efforts to become a good person to get heaven (not only for himself, but also to help another one), is very well. At last, his action to stop his smoking habit and know the meaning of sacrifice, is very nice. And it’s so hard to be done.

Shia LaBeouf as Chas Kramer, touches our hearts. He constantly remind John not to smoke, although John never pay his attention. He totally believe in God (Father). Everything he does, he believes it is God’s plan. After he help John to save Angela, he died sadly. Yet he still believe it is God’s plan. Surprisingly, at last he becomes an angel with his huge wings in him. This movie also funny, cause of his kidding and his foolishness. It makes the drama becomes no boring.

Rachel Weisz as Angela Dodson, plays her role very great. As detective with great and difficult job, she still looks feminin. She really believe that her sister, Isabel won't kill herself. She shows her big love to her by investigate Isabel's death. She tries us to love our relation totally.

Overall, Constantine is a terrific movie. The plot is very excellent. The characters are very well. The humor and jokes are there. As result, it is good to the entire family. We can study from this movie :

Do everything well as we can do now and believe Father has good plan for us.

I still want to watch it one more time.