Keanu Reeves sure has come a long way since the days of Bill and Ted. This time around, he plays John Constantine, star of the comic Hellblazer, cursed with the "gift" of seeing those spirits that are unseen by the rest of the world.
So he spends most of the movie running about the place (which could be a single city, a larger state, country or even an entire world), battling these demons, which only he can see, wth some supposed purpose that us mere mortals cannot hope to fathom. And that essentially wraps it up, so far as I coudl tell.
I don't think I've read more than one or two of the Hellblazer comics, and so perhaps I just didn't understand what was going on, but I think I got a pretty decent concept of what was happening. I just didn't really like it. I have to say that Tilda Swinton as Gabriel reminded me of Emma Thompson in Angels in America (which I also didn't like). Perhaps that's why.
While I'm usually all for the little guy winning out in the end over the forces of evil and triumphing over the impossible, I just couldn't get my feelings involved in this one. Maybe it's because I just saw Keanu as Ted the other day, and enjoyed that one, and this is so different.
Whatever the case, the movie is Rated R for language and violence, so make sure the little ones aren't watching.
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