Infuriated, Lucifer restores Constantine to life and removes his cancer, believing that, in time, he will prove he belongs in Hell. Lucifer releases Isabel, but Constantine begins ascending to Heaven for his selfless sacrifice. Lucifer offers to restore Constantine to life for his assistance, but he instead asks that Isabel be sent to Heaven. Gabriel ineffectually attempts to smite Lucifer, revealing God has abandoned them, and Lucifer burns away Gabriel's wings before banishing Mammon to Hell. Time pauses and Constantine convinces Lucifer to intervene and stop Mammon. Gabriel tosses Constantine away and prepares to pierce Angela with the spear tip to unleash Mammon.ĭesperate, Constantine commits suicide by slitting his wrists, knowing that Lucifer will personally come to collect him. Resentful at God's favoritism for humanity and forgiveness for even the most wicked, Gabriel intends to unleash Hell on Earth so that those who survive will become truly "worthy" of His love. Constantine and Chas seemingly exorcise Mammon from her, but Chas is killed by the unseen force, revealed to be Gabriel.
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Alongside his driver and apprentice, Chas Kramer, Constantine arms himself and assaults the building, battling through hordes of demons to Angela. With the help of witch doctor Papa Midnite, Constantine induces visions to locate Angela at the psychiatric hospital. An unseen entity destroys Balthazar and abducts Angela who becomes possessed by Mammon. Constantine helps Angela reawaken her powers by inducing a near-death experience, and she uses them to find Balthazar.Ĭonstantine interrogates Balthazar and learns that the blood of Christ on the spear tip is Mammon's divine assistance, and Angela has been chosen as his new host. Angela reveals she possessed powers like Isabel's but repressed them to avoid being deemed insane like her sister.
Before being killed by Balthazar, Constantine's ally Beeman tells the pair the symbol represents the antichrist Mammon, Lucifer's son, and the chapter prophesies him usurping his father and conquering the Earth, using a powerful psychic and divine assistance the psychic, Isabel, killed herself to stop Mammon. Angela also finds a clue hidden in Isabel's hospital room concerning a chapter of Hell's bible. Constantine and Angela discover Hennesy carved the symbol into his hand for them to find. Constantine tells Angela that he committed suicide as a teenager because he was traumatized by seeing supernatural creatures and, though he was revived, when he dies he is condemned to Hell.Īt the morgue, Constantine's friend Father Hennesy discovers a symbol on Isabel's wrist but is killed by the half-breed demon Balthazar. He uses a ritual to see Isabel in Hell and confirms she killed herself. He refuses to help until he witnesses demons pursuing Angela and fends them off. Watching security footage, Angela hears Isabel say "Constantine", and seeks out his assistance. Angela refuses to believe her sister, a devout Catholic, would commit suicide and condemn herself to Hell.
Gabriel responds that performing good deeds for selfish reasons will not secure his way into Heaven.Įlsewhere, detective Angela Dodson is investigating the death of her twin sister Isabel who leaped from a psychiatric hospital roof. Suffering from terminal lung cancer, Constantine meets with the half-breed angel Gabriel to request an extension to his life in exchange for his work deporting Hell's forces. There, cynical occult expert John Constantine exorcises a demon from a young girl after witnessing its attempt to come through her to Earth, something that should be impossible because of a treaty between Heaven and Hell. In Mexico, a scavenger recovers the tip of the spear that pierced Jesus Christ from a ruined church and, after becoming possessed, takes it to Los Angeles. In the following years, it has been considered as a cult film. It grossed $230.9 million worldwide against a production budget between $70–100 million, but met with a mixed reception from film critics.
Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Djimon Hounsou, Gavin Rossdale, and Peter Stormare also feature.Ĭonstantine was released theatrically in the United States on February 18, 2005. The film stars Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, a cynical exorcist with the ability to perceive and communicate with half-angels and half-demons in their true forms and to travel between Earth and Hell. Written by Kevin Brodbin and Frank Cappello, it is loosely based on DC Comics' Hellblazer comic book. Constantine is a 2005 American superhero horror film directed by Francis Lawrence in his directorial debut.
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