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Running time121 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$100 millionBox office$230.9 millionConstantine is a 2005 American film directed by, in his feature-length, and starring as., and co-star. With a screenplay by and, the film is based on ' comic book, with plot elements taken from the ' story arc (issues #41–46) and the 'Original Sins' story arc.

The film portrays John Constantine as a cynic with the ability to perceive and communicate with half-angels and half-demons in their true form. He seeks salvation from eternal damnation in for a suicide attempt in his youth. Constantine exorcises demons back to Hell to earn favor with Heaven but has become weary over time. With terminal lung cancer, he helps a troubled police detective learn the truth about her twin sister's death while simultaneously unraveling a much larger and darker plot.The character of John Constantine was introduced by comic book writer/creator while writing the, first appearing there in June 1985. In 1988, the character of John Constantine was given his own comic book title, Hellblazer, published.

The 'Dangerous Habits' story arc was written by in 1991.Constantine was released in the United States and Canada on February 18, 2005, and in on February 8, 2005. The film grossed $230.9 million worldwide from a $100 million budget. Contents.Plot In the Mexican countryside, a scavenger named Manuel finds a spearhead wrapped in a at the ruins of an old church. The spearhead is later revealed as the. Manuel becomes possessed and travels to the United States.In Los Angeles, occult detective exorcises a girl possessed by a demon trying to break through to Earth, which should not be possible under the rules of a standing wager between and for mankind's souls. Constantine's driver and apprentice Chas Kramer waits in the car as Constantine doesn't think he's ready to exorcise demons. Constantine later meets with the half-angel being.

He asks Gabriel for a reprieve from his impending death from lung cancer caused by prolonged smoking. Gabriel declines, telling Constantine that he exorcises demons for selfish reasons and cannot buy his way into Heaven.After being assaulted by another demon, Constantine goes to Papa Midnite, a reputed who runs a club serving as neutral ground where half-breeds do not have to conceal themselves. Constantine is admitted into the club, but the bouncer tells Chas to leave, as he can not pass the psychic entry test. Midnite does not believe Constantine's claim of demons crossing over.

Constantine leaves, after exchanging hostile words with half-demon Balthazar.Elsewhere, a woman named Isabel Dodson commits suicide in a psychiatric hospital. Her twin sister, Detective Angela Dodson, refuses to believe that Isabel, a devout, would kill herself.

Watching security footage of Isabel's suicide, Angela hears her say Constantine's name. Angela finds Constantine and asks him to help investigate. After they are attacked by winged demons, which Constantine believes were targeting Angela, he agrees to help.Constantine briefly transports himself to Hell through the possession of a and sees Isabel damned to eternally relive her suicide. Constantine explains to Angela that he can see the true nature of the half-breeds. He committed suicide to escape his visions and his soul was sent to Hell, but he was revived by paramedics two minutes later; for the sin of taking his own life, his soul is still condemned to go to Hell once he dies.

The two examine Isabel's room in the hospital and find a clue pointing to a prophecy in the Satanic Bible that Lucifer's son, will attempt to claim Earth as his own kingdom. To do so, Mammon requires both a powerful psychic and assistance from God.Angela tells Constantine that Isabel, a clairvoyant and a psychic, was by her parents. Angela had the same gift but suppressed it. At Angela's insistence, Constantine reawakens her psychic ability through a. She immediately finds a clue pinpointing Balthazar as an accomplice to the plot; Constantine interrogates Balthazar, who reveals that Mammon has the Spear, stained with the —the assistance from God. Angela, now the psychic in place of Isabel, is abducted by an invisible entity.Constantine convinces Midnite that the demons are breaking the wager's rules. With Midnite's help, Constantine finds out how the Spear emerged and Angela's location.

Constantine arms himself and goes to the hospital, reluctantly bringing Chas along. The two fight their way through an army of half-demons to exorcise Angela. Chas is apparently killed by the invisible entity, which turns out to be Gabriel. Resenting God's favoritism towards humans, Gabriel plans to unleash Hell on Earth to weed out those deemed 'unworthy' of God's love.

Gabriel casts Constantine from the room and prepares to use the Spear to cut Mammon free from Angela.Out of options, Constantine slits his wrists. As he bleeds out, Lucifer arrives to personally collect his soul.

Constantine tells Lucifer of Mammon's plan to usurp him. Confronted by Lucifer, Gabriel threatens to 'smite' him in God's honor; however, the attack against Lucifer comes up short, revealing to both Gabriel and Lucifer that Gabriel no longer has divine protection. Lucifer proceeds to burn Gabriel's wings, making Gabriel mortal. Lucifer banishes Mammon back to Hell and grants Constantine a wish out of gratitude; Constantine asks that Isabel be released to Heaven. Lucifer complies but realizes too late that he cannot take Constantine to Hell as a consequence; by selflessly sacrificing himself, Constantine is granted entry to Heaven.

Infuriated, Lucifer heals Constantine's injuries and cures him of his lung cancer by pulling out the tumors in his lungs, hoping he will eventually damn himself again. Angela and Constantine depart, leaving the now human Gabriel. Sometime later, Constantine, now making an effort to quit smoking, entrusts the Spear to Angela and in a visits Chas's grave, where Chas appears in an angelic form.Cast. as, a chain-smoking cynic with the ability to perceive the true of half-angels and half-demons on the human. John is damned to Hell for attempting suicide—a mortal sin—and has.

as Angela Dodson, a troubled Los Angeles Police Department Detective investigating the suicide of her twin sister, Isabel (also portrayed by Weisz). Weisz also plays Mammon, the son of Lucifer who has no patience for his father's rule of Hell and uses Angela's body as a means of escaping Hell to rule over Earth himself.

as, John Constantine's driver and student. Chas has a strong interest in the occult and helps John whenever possible in order to gain knowledge and experience from him.

as, a 'half-breed' angel, depicted as looking, with a who plots to set Mammon free from Hell to unleash demon kind on the Earth. as Father Hennessy, an, alcoholic priest with the ability to.

He constantly drinks in order to 'keep the voices out'. as, a former witch-doctor who once fought against Hell.

After swearing an oath of neutrality—unless one side should tip the balance of power—he opened a nightclub to serve as neutral meeting ground for both sides of the war between Heaven and Hell. as Balthazar, a 'half-breed' demon with a special penchant for, and personal history with, John Constantine.

as, a fallen Archangel who is in a proxy war with for the souls of all mankind. Lucifer loathes John Constantine with such vigor that his soul is the only one he would ever come to personally collect. Max Baker as Beeman, a friend of John Constantine's with a liking for exotic materials and insects. He serves as both a supplier of holy objects and relayer of information to John.

Jesse Ramirez as Manuel, a scavenger and treasure hunter who finds the Spear in a church ruin and enters into a trance-like state which resurrects him after getting hit by a car.Production. This section needs expansion with: Further production details. You can help. ( October 2010)Producer had developed the film as far back as 1997. In 1999, was attached to direct, followed by in 2001.

Hoped Singh could begin filming in 2002 with attached to star in the lead role but Singh ended up dropping out, a move that inspired dueling lawsuits from Tarsem and Warners. Became attached in 2002., original creator of John Constantine, had been disappointed by the previous adaptations of his other comics and, refused credit for the film and asked that his royalties be distributed among the other creators.Constantine was written using some elements from 's ' story arc (issues #41–46) and others, such as the inclusion of Papa Midnite, from the Original Sins trade paperback. The film changed several aspects of the source material, including a number of cosmetic changes to the lead character's appearance, e.g., Reeves played the role with his natural accent and hair color whilst the original character was intentionally drawn to resemble English musician and originally came from. The film was also set in Los Angeles; the director pointed out that the comic book was not exclusively set in London either.Other differences to the character were made, such as giving him the psychic ability to see 'half-breeds' as they truly are. That ability, in the film, is what caused him to attempt suicide and which led to his damnation rather than his role in summoning a demon that killed a young girl. The resolution of the lung cancer plotline in the film was also amended; Lucifer saves the redeemed Constantine to give him a second chance at falling rather than being tricked into doing so as was seen in the comic book. Scenes with actress as Constantine's lover, a half-breed demon named Ellie based on the succubus in the Hellblazer comics, were cut from the film to make Constantine more of a lonely character.The film's title was changed from Hellblazer to Constantine to avoid confusion with the films.

The comics series itself was originally to be titled Hellraiser but was also retitled to avoid confusion with the film, released the previous year. Hell, as it is depicted within the filmDirector Lawrence decided to base the idea of Hell 'on the geography of what's around us now.'

He further explained:That was actually a combination of me and the visual effects supervisor and the production designer sitting down and sort of coming up with the biological growth that's growing all over the cars and what that looks like and the color palette. And we started to look at the nuclear test films from the 1940s of the nuclear blasts and just decided that it would be great if the landscape was not only violent with these creatures, but also the atmosphere. So we decided that it was kind of an eternal nuclear blast except nothing ever really gets obliterated because it's eternal and it's constantly going. Soundtrack Constantine: Original Motion Picture Soundtrackby.

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This diluted but visually arresting adaptation of the comic book Hellblazer stars Keanu Reeves as chain-smoking John Constantine, a cancer-ridden exorcist who's condemned to save souls and take on all manner of vile demons on Earth. Rachel Weisz co-stars as a police detective who teams up with Constantine after her apparently deranged twin sister (also played by Weisz) takes a swan dive off a high ledge. Much muttering follows about portals between heaven and Earth, the struggle between good and evil, and there's some silliness involving a relic that's found in the Mexican desert wrapped in a Nazi flag. Ultimately, the script feels like little more than sticky tape holding together the visual effects, but they're very impressive effects indeed, indicating that former pop-video director Francis Lawrence definitely has an eye, if not yet a lick of storytelling sense. And Tilda Swinton is utterly delicious as an androgynous angel.