Genre: Action/Superhero/Supernatural
Director: Tarsem Singh
Writer: D.R. Cobb
Based on DC Comics characters
Cast: Colin Farrell, Charlie Day, Lili Reinhart, August Diehl, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Georgia King, John Hannah, Aishwarya Rai
Budget: $115,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $206,905,559
Foreign Box Office: $190,046,117
Total Profit: $90,121,306
Reaction: Similar to the studio's previous supernatural DC film, Swamp-Thing, this one grossed just under $400 at the worldwide box office. So while the film was not a major money maker like a Halo 6 or X-Men, it still ends up as one of the season's more profitable films.
"John Constantine here is a very reactionary hero with no particular goals. He simply finds himself in one messy situation after another that he continually gets out of by the skin of his teeth. I don't feel like we learned all that much about Constantine as a hero, let alone about the weird and magical world he inhabits." - Janet Donnelly, Empire Magazine
"Some interesting scenes and inspired casting help this film where the writing and film making let it down at times. Obviously Farrell excels at roles like this where he doesn't have to play too nice with anyone, but it was supporting players like Charlie Day and Lili Reinhart that stole the show in almost all of their scenes, in a film that is far funnier than I was expecting." - Ben Mazur, SciFiNow
"Constantine: The Hellblazer has some heavy-lifting to do to fully introduce the magical element into the DC Comics Universe. It mostly succeeds in this, but it seems undecided about some of the details of the world. That's something that will most likely be covered more in future DC Comics Universe films, so I didn't stress about the world-building too much in this one. I just focused on the story itself, which is mostly good, but with a handful of scenes that will occasionally kill the forward momentum." - Bruce Vickers, Baltimore Sun
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