Constantsuck (Suckstantine?)
Every year needs at least one dreadful comic book adaptation and, following in the footsteps of Daredevil and Van Helsing, Constantine did not disappoint (in disappointing that is).
As long as we're talking about remakes though (are we still talking about remakes?), Constantine is a movie that begs to be remade in 15 years, 'cause there really is a good movie in there somewhere trying to get out from underneath the endless digital effects and low angle Keanu shots.
An interesting note, the whole time I thought there was a horrible disconnect between the writer and director, the script was obviously for an action/fantasy comedy but was directed as if it were serious and had depth and what not. When the credits rolled, I learned that the director actually co-wrote the script, I guess we'll just have to chalk that one up to schizophrenia.

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Film critic Roger Ebert says of Keanu Reeves' character in Constantine, "It's the Hans Christian Andersen fable about a young girl who puts on a pair of red slippers that will not allow her to stop dancing; she must dance and dance, in a grotesque mockery of happiness, until she is dead." Ebert implies that Constantine is a must-see nightmare of true Hell.
Source: "The Red Shoes" review by Roger Ebert.
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