'Constantine:' true artistry or just a money-maker?

From: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA | Date: February 26, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Golden crosses melted down to make blessed ammunition, snarling demons exploding in a shell-flinging shootout and a possessed girl suspended upside-down from her bedroom's ceiling.

We've seen it all before, right? The silver screen gets flooded with Hollywood's recycled plots year after year, but it takes a film like "Constantine" to tread the line between a true artistic endeavor and a cheap commercial money maker.

While never truly breaching the lines of either category, "Constantine" takes an epic story, combines it with myriad classic influences and summons stunning imagery to push it all ...

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