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The advantage of hotel broadband being cut off is feeling like it’s okay to go ahead and watch a movie, since all other forms of entertainment are gone …<\/p>\n

When I’m choosing a hotel movie, I try to pick something that (a) I’m not likely to be buying myself, (b) has gotten decent buzz, or at least sounds interesting, and (c) I’m not likely to borrow from friends. Since this didn’t look like a Margie Movie, and I’m a fan of the comic book, it seemed like a fine idea.<\/p>\n

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If you allow for (1) Keanu Reeves<\/a> being so <\/em>not John Constantine from the comics, and (2) the movie ending on an oddly false note, Constantine<\/a><\/em> is actually quite an entertaining flick<\/a>, sort of The Mummy<\/em> meets The Matrix<\/em> meets The Exorcist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Good effects, fun (in a morbid sense) characters, combine with an entertaining and not-too-convoluted plot line. It’s hardly profound, even when it gets exposition-heavy, but I’ve seen far worse horror\/adventure flicks. The “real” John Constantine would spit in the movie’s John Constantine’s eye, but that aside, it was worth investing a couple of hours of my life to watch. Especially (from a Narnia<\/em> perspective) to see Tilda Swinton<\/a>‘s Gabriel.<\/p>\n

Heck, Margie might enjoy it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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