Theater Release:
February 18, 2005
DVD Release:
July 19, 2005
Genre:
Thriller
MPAA Rating:
R for violence and demonic images
Main Cast:
Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Gavin Rossdale
Director:
Francis Lawrence
Producer:
Lauren Shuler Donner, Benjamin Melniker, Michael Uslan, Erwin Stoff, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Akiva Goldsman
Screenwriter:
Kevin Brodbin, Frank Cappello
Studio:
Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures
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 Based on the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer graphic novels, Constantine tells the story of John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), a renegade occultist who has literally been to hell and back. Constantine was born with a gift he did not want, the ability to see the half-breed angels and deamons that roam earth, disguised as humans.
Constantine is so plagued by these tormenting visions that he unsuccessfully tries to take his own life. Resuscitated against his will, he was forced back into the land of the living and, now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell with hopes of earning his salvation by waging a war on the evil demons.
Constantine, however, is growing increasingly disillusioned by the world around him and becomes a heaving-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroism and does not want gratitude or sympathy. He just wants a way out.
Constantine, teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister. Their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists in and below Los Angeles. The relationship between the two develops under an inextricable web of catastrophes and otherworldly events, forcing them to seek out their own peace, whatever the cost.
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