Constantine
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: February 18, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
17
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Slightly better than your run-of-the-mill late winter horror film. Read full review
60
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Peaks early, then descends into portentous nonsense. Read full review
60
EmpireOlly Richards
While lacking the richness of its source material, it remains an enjoyable, immoral and sometimes beautifully Gothic tale. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The movie is ornate, arbitrary, and fetishistic, too, with the added challenge of being hell to follow for those without access to crib notes. Intellectually, I can admire the emphasis on visual style over plot clarity. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
This adaptation of the graphic novel "Hellblazer" blazes few new trails and bogs down in a confusing narrative muddle. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Fans of Hellblazer are bound to be disappointed. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Though the story is potentially fascinating and the visuals sometimes spellbinding, the movie itself is stranded in the purgatory of the second-rate. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The story is a retread of the old "Exorcist" and "Omen" formats, but it delivers as much action and spectacle as fans of the genre could want. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Music video-trained director Francis Lawrence whips up a witch's brew of gray-on-gray atmosphere, but for all the end-of-the-world mumbo jumbo, nothing much ever seems to be at stake. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Philippe Rousselot's elegant cinematography lends some gravitas to music-video veteran Francis Lawrence's directorial debut. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
For all its spiritual angst, Constantine is about as silly as fantasies get. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
It all comes off as a case of filmmakers wanting to have their communion wafer and eat it, too. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
A great-looking but torturously slow and often hokey cross between "The Exorcist" and "Dirty Harry." Read full review
40
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Tilda Swinton is the Angel Gabriel, adding a touch of high-class celestial cross-dressing to this overblown, overlong attempt - which falls just short of success - to make a movie dumber than "Van Helsing." Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The relation between Constantine and its source material is, at best, superfluous. Read full review
40
Washington PostHank Stuever
Much of Constantine simply portends. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Reeves rigid delivery makes Constantine's occult backstory sound pretentious and silly, and converts Constantine himself into a repressed cipher. The film's biggest revision isn't in not making him blonde, or not making him British. It's in not making him human. Read full review
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