| I had never even heard of this
movie, never saw the trailer, never read a comic book and
didn't know anything about the plot besides angels and demons
or such. My friend Katie who is working with us on Fantastic
Four, worked on the fx for Constantine so she asked me if
I would go with her. Well that plus the offer to go to an
Indian Restaurant after, can't refuse that :P
The theater was packed and a high energy which is always
fun for these kinds of movies. After a preview of Sin City
(looks Dick Tracy-ish but pretty cool) the movie started.
out pretty wild. At first I was thinking, geez, he is acting
just like in the Matrix, but after a while you get past that.
The basic story is Constantine was born with a gift, or curse,
depending on the angle you look at it. He can see the Angels
and Demonons in their true form that live with us here on
earth. He also uses his vision to expell the Demons from people
with Mirror Exocrcisms. Very very cool. He meets the twin
sister of a girl who doctors and police say killed herself
but we know better. Is she trapped in Hell and how can they
get her out.
The FX are really excellent. the design of hell is brilliant.
More a post nuke big city with wind and boiling heat then
the visuals we are use to seeing. And those Demons, ouch,
their faces are chopped off at the nose and scare the poop
out of you. I also really loved the first time you see an
Angels wings pop up from behind their shoulder. Similar t
Angels In America, and just as cool.. There were SOME smoke
particles that looked REALLY pasted on, but thats tricky to
do and if the tracking is off looks really fake. Ok, being
picky on this point. Many of you won't care about that :)
The ending would be the only part I was a little dissapointed
in. All of a sudden, the action STOPS and then this very LONG
dialogue that never ends and is acted out to bore you to death.
Then after 10-12 minutes, what seems like 30 minutes, the
action starts again where we left off. I don't get it, like
an insert of a scene stuck in the middle of the first scene.
Other then that, the movie really surprised me. I enjoyed
it a lot. Well worth the admission and I will probably be
byuing it when it comes out on DVD.
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