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3/18/2005

Constantine

I have totally forgotten to blog for this film, but it is a really nice movie. IMDB site has trashed this movie so my expectation isn's high, but I find it better than I expected.
*Spoiler alert*
The dialogue is inconsequential. Maybe that's why the reviewer doesn't like this movie. They didn't say much in this movie.
The spear of destiny is discovered by a Latin man. He is possessed by Mamoon, Lucifier's (Satan) son. He brings death to the creatures around him. He kills all the cattle around him when he passes through the field.
John Constantine is a demon police who lives in Los Angeles. He hunts down a demon soldier in a girl's body in the beginning of the movie. The demon is trapped in a mirror and thrown out the window. The demon dies as the mirror crash to the ground.
Angela Dodson's sister, Isabel, throws herself off the hospital building. Unable to believe that her sister killed herself, she confronts Constantine for some answers. She admits to denying having psychic powers while her sister embraces it. She claims that she can see angels and demons so her parents send her to live in a psychiatric hospital.
Constantine goes to her place to see her sister's effects. He visits hell to find Isabel. The truth is that she killed herself and he brings back her medical bracelet as evidence.
Sadness engulfs her, but Angela quickly recovers. Constantine's blind priest friend reads the newspaper and comes across Isabel's suicide. He goes to the morgue to visit her body, and finds a symbol on her wrist. Belthazar kills him by forcing him to drink many bottles of alcohol and still thinks he is thirsty.
Angela and John visit the hospital to see what had she left for Angela. She denies knowing what Isabel left, but later reads the writing on the window.
It is apparently a passage in hell's bible. It tells of Mamoon's ambition to take over Earth. He needs the spear of destiny, a psychic, and the help of God.
Isabel is a psychic, the spear of destiny has been found, and an angel will help him. Constantine's friend, Dean, informs him and Angela this. At the same time, Belthazar attack him so his body is consumed by the thing he loves the most, insects. By the time John and Angela arrives, he is covered by flies.
Angela demands to visit hell. Make a joke about taking all her clothes off. She is fully emerged under water by John. Seeing hell, she knows all those people are suffering.
This is an initiation back to her Constantine's blind priest friend reads the newspaper and comes across Isabel's suicide. He goes to the morgue to visit her body, and finds a symbol on her wrist. Belthazar kills him by forcing him to drink many bottles of alcohol and still thinks he is thirsty.
She demands to be shown the way to hell. Seeing all the people who are suffering, and initialised into the psychic world again, she visits the bowling ally to find Belthazar's coin.
Constantine brings out the big gun to see Belthazar. He is a rich businessman. He pours holy water on his face and blows his brains out after reading him the last rite from the Holy Bible. However, he is not a priest, so Belthazar will not really go to heaven.
Mamoon leaves him to die and takes Angela as his new psychic.
In the hospital, Angela appears in the pool. Mamoon goes into her body and he leaves hell. Constantine goes to Midnite demanding the use of the chair from Singsing prison. Going to hell again, he sees Mamoon taking the spear of destiny out of the ground and killing a motorist. Taking his car, he enters America and arrives at Los Angeles after a long journey.
He takes his driver, Ched, to the hospital. There he finds a grounp of demons in a room. Ched puts the cross into the water tank. Clicking his lighter open, Constantine burns the demons and blows their brains up. Ched comes to help him as his gun stuck.
They push open the door into the pool area. Angela is sleeping on the ground. Mamoon struggles to come of of her body, and they prevent him to come out. Ched chants with Constantine so Mamoon cannot cross over to this side of the world.
Gabrielle, the half angel, takes the spear of destiny and throws Constantine to the door. As she wields the spear, Lucifier appears as John dies. He comes to see if his son really is coming to take over the world. He holds Angela and Gabrielle strikes the ground. God takes away her wings in the pool. Constantine is going to heaven, but Lucifer will not let him go easily. He takes away his cancer in the lungs so he will once again walk the earth unharmed.
At the end of the movie, Constantine gives the spear of destiny to Angela to hide, even from him. They will see each other around.
The hell scenes are great, and the demon attack are beautifully done.

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