Okay, Constantine it might turn out to be an okay movie, even if the trailer makes it look like another cardboard-cut-out angels-and-demons-occult-war potboiler (without even a Christopher Walken to redeem it, so to speak).
But it sure doesn’t look like any John Constantine or Hellblazer I know.
What’s kept that particular comic fresh over the years is that Constantine is an irrepressible bastard with chutzpah out the wazoo and a guilty conscience to match. This Constantine, portrayed by Keanu Reeves, comes across as …
… well, as a Keanu Reeves — dull and boring, though trying to come off as grim and gritty. But that rakish smile, that spit-in-the-devil’s-eye sense of humor, is nowhere to be seen.
Which leaves us with, well, another cardboard-cut-out angels-and-demons-occult-war potboiler.
Ah, well.