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Article: Keanu to the rescue.(Keanu Reeves in Constantine)(Movie Review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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HELL WANTS HIM, heaven won't take him, earth needs him." So proclaims the poster for Constantine. It sounds like an ad for a previous Keanu Reeves movie, the ridiculous Devil's Advocate. Yet some of the same publicists who promoted Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ are promoting Constantine--and for similar reasons. Here, they say, is a film that takes the biblical worldview seriously. Constantine is about "spiritual warfare": it shows that choices have eternal consequences, and it depicts hell as a place one should avoid. Reeves plays John Constantine, an exorcist who walks around Los Angeles stone-faced and pissed off, uttering barely decipherable monosyllabic ...