Here he is loading Constantine with the latest weaponry: "Bullet shavings from the assassination attempt on the Pope, holy water from the river of Jordan, and, you'll love this, screech beetles." The screech beetles come in a little matchbox.
Like Blade, the vampire-killer, he is surprisingly optimistic, considering he is one guy in one city dealing on a case-by-case basis, and the enemy is global.Ĭonstantine has a technical advisor named Beeman ( Max Baker), who lives in the ceiling of the bowling alley among the pin-spotting machines, and functions like Q in the James Bond movies. Constantine's lonely mission is to track down half-demons and cast them back to the fires below. You would think that God would be the New England Patriots of this contest, but apparently there is a chance that Satan could win.
The half-angels and half-devils are earthly proxies in the war between God and Satan. Constantine has already spent some time in hell, which looks like a post-nuclear Los Angeles created by animators with a hangover. The angel Gabriel ( Tilda Swinton) tells him, "You are going to die young because you've smoked 30 cigarettes a day since you were 13." Gabriel has made more interesting announcements. In a world of shadows and dark magic, not everything is what it seems, and there’s always a price to pay.There is a scene early in the movie where Constantine and his doctor look at his X-rays, never a good sign in a superhero movie. With the help of the enigmatic Nightmare Nurse, the influential Queen of Angels, and brutal Aztec God Mictlantecuhtli, the pair just might have a chance at outsmarting the demon Beroul to save Trish’s soul. Gover and Greg Berlanti, The Hellblazer is back in an all-new twisted tale of mystery, intrigue and the occult with Constantine: City of Demons, a full-length, R-rated feature film based on the acclaimed DC animated series from CW Seed.Ī decade after a tragic mistake, family man Chas and occult detective John Constantine set out to cure Chas’s daughter Trish from a mysterious supernatural coma.
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