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“Constantine” on DVD: Better than you’ve heard
We caught the DVD of “Constantine” the other nite, a combat-with-the-devil comic-book flick with Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz, and it was rather entertaining. Completely silly, but very entertaining.
Most of the reviews of it that I read when it was in theaters were quite negative, but I’m thinking they were off the mark this time. Or, it may be that given all that bad stuff I read, I may have had such low expectations that the movie seemed that much better by comparison.
I think the writers, as usual, were taking the thing way too seriously. I remember complaints that it was was too derivative of other movies like “The Exorcist” and “The Matrix,” and indeed it was. But frankly, blending those two into one movie strikes me as a darn good idea, and I was pleased that somebody tried it.
What was the last movie that critics ruined for you?
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