Constantine (2014)
NBC | Release Date: October 24, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
14
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardOct 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: The latest comic book adaptation to hit TV, NBC’s Constantine is a nifty spookfest with dark humor and some genuine chills. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: A near-perfect companion piece to the similarly creepy-quirky Grimm, this lavish adaptation of the DC Comics Hellblazer series is the freakiest and most stylized fantasy pilot since Sleepy Hollow, and Ryan's instant grasp of this cocky but battered hero will make it easy to forget that Keanu Reeves ever went there. Read full review
75
Newark Star-LedgerVicki HymanOct 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: Ryan, a Welsh actor little known on these shores, is the best thing about the pilot. Second best are some genuinely creepy special effects and scares, but the plot itself is a muddle. Read full review
75
USA TodayRobert BiancoOct 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: Falling somewhere in the middle of the dark/light scale between Gotham and Flash, tonight's promising premiere boasts a few good jolts, a welcome bit of visual flair, and an appealing star turn from Welsh actor Matt Ryan, who conveys just the right mix of tortured soul, biting wit and hunky hero. Read full review
70
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanOct 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: The series looks and feels appropriately ghoulish with a couple of good gotcha moments and excellently rendered scary creatures prowling the shadows, in between clunky expository passages. Read full review
67
HitfixAlan SepinwallOct 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: There's the structure for a sturdy but unremarkable supernatural procedural (and companion piece to "Grimm"), but in the pilot, at least, producers David Goyer and Daniel Cerone aren't aiming for much more. Read full review
65
Under The RadarZach HollwedelOct 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: Not only does it promise scares, but it looks good, moves quickly, and uses effects well and wisely. In a market that's rapidly growing, Constantine does a commendable job distinguishing itself. Read full review
63
New York PostRobert RorkeOct 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: If you’re not already a fan of the story, Constantine has some kinks to iron out before the unenlightened will willingly follow this master of the dark arts. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkOct 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Constantine doubles down on both shape-shifting and puzzlements. Its whiz-bang-boom special effects also might serve as ample enticements for viewers who don’t much care whether anything makes any real sense. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenOct 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: Constantine seems like a good fit tonally for Friday night companion series “Grimm,” but Constantine will need to more clearly establish its world--and the rules of its world--and better define its characters if it hopes to become a fanboy favorite. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanOct 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: The pilot is very spotty. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesPatrick Kevin DayOct 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: As the title character, Matt Ryan is great as the world-weary, faintly sleazy, self-proclaimed exorcist, demonologist and master of the dark arts.... Less successful is the story. Read full review
50
The WrapJason HughesOct 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: There's a fun dynamic between John and Chas that is yet to be explored, while we haven't even met the third member of our trio yet. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklOct 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: He’s another reluctant antihero battling supernatural terrors that, with the help of some whiz-bang special effects, are all style and no substance. Read full review
50
Washington PostHank StueverOct 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: A sometimes sharp but painfully predictable Constantine premieres Friday night. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMike HaleOct 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: The new show is a perfectly adequate, even above-average example of the genre, but at this late date, it’s hard to stand out from the crowd. Read full review
50
The OregonianKristi TurnquistOct 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: The best thing about the new NBC series, Constantine, which is based on The DC Comics "Hellblazer" series, is that its hero has a roguish sense of humor Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandOct 21, 2014
Season 1 Review: There’s good stuff in the pilot--the special effects, for one--and not-so-good stuff, leaving the question up in the air about whether writers David Goyer and Daniel Cerone, who developed the series, can make the fixes necessary to do justice to Hellblazer. Read full review
50
Cleveland Plain DealerMark DawidziakOct 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: The wildly uneven Constantine premiere is a decidedly mixed bag of magic tricks. It's moody and mysterious. It's also muddled and meandering. Read full review
42
NewsdayVerne GayOct 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: Messy pilot that doesn't offer enough backstory, or reason to care all that much about Constantine. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyDalene RovenstineOct 20, 2014
Season 1 Review: A well-stubbled Matt Ryan works hard to charm with womp-womp wit.... A wan female sidekick comes and goes. But the cockroaches impress. Good luck giving a damn about the rest.
40
VarietyBrian LowryOct 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: The series--adapted by Daniel Cerone with an assist from genre specialist David S. Goyer--nearly chokes on its mythological mumbo-jumbo, and frankly, yelling at demons in foreign tongues seemed a whole lot scarier back when “The Exorcist” first turned heads. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzOct 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: The problem is that, as executed, the show seems stuck a creative netherworld all its own, somewhere between straight-faced action epic and snarky, quip-filled, Buffy the Vampire Slayer–style near-parody — and because it doesn't have the artistic chops of a Buffy, or a Sleepy Hollow, for that matter, it all comes across as calculating and insincere, Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChris CabinOct 21, 2014
Season 1 Review: The turns of the convoluted plot and the thick-as-a-brick backstories of the largely dull, undetailed characters are all that seem to matter to the show's writers. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyOct 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: Matt Ryan plays title character John Constantine, and he gets an incomplete on his acting grade because he has so little legitimate material with which to work. Read full review
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