![]() ![]() And Shia LaBeouf's obligatory sidekick aside, the movie featured a solid cast of supporting players (Djimon Hounsou, Tilda Swinton, Rachel Weisz, and even Peter Stormare as Lucifer).Ĭonstantine may not have been a very faithful adaptation of the source material, but A Scanner Darkly certainly was. But Reeves nonetheless did a good job of playing a troubled hero staring down death. No, Reeves is far from the spitting image of the comic book Constantine, a blond-haired, British man who is basically Sting with a penchant for magic and a superhuman smoking habit. The movie borrowed from the seminal storyline "Dangerous Habits" in how it used Constantine's terminal lung cancer as the driving force in his quest to cheat his demonic foes and avoid eternal damnation. Reeves starred as John Constantine, an exorcist/demon hunter reluctantly caught up in the ongoing war between angels and demons on Earth. But ignoring the fact that it's not a great adaptation of DC's Hellblazer comics, Constantine is actually a pretty solid supernatural action flick. To prove Keanu Reeves is more than just an action hero and comedic lead, we've picked out his 10 best movies, ranging from early '80s efforts like River's Edge to more recent fare like A Scanner Darkly.Īs far as comic book adaptations go, Constantine isn't too terribly well-regarded.
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