That said, I really did not enjoy Constantine the movie. Gave the DVD to a friend immediately after watching it who then donated it to our local library. I suppose if I had never read Hellblazer I might have enjoyed. But I did read it and so the comparisons to the source material was inevitable. And Constantine the movie came up short. Very short.

I think this is why adaptations of comic books always fail. They simply can't live up to the emotional investment I have in the series and characters. The only ones that have worked is Iron Man (who I had no emotional investment in) and Darkman and The Incredibles (which are movies about comic book characters that don't exists so again, no emotional investment).

Final note: my fantasy casting for Constantine would be Rutger Hauer circa 1986, minus the accent.

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