I'm preparing a snarky video review for this one. It has potential, and I like the cast, but it feels like much too much. Angels, guns, armageddon, messiahs. It's like The Prophecy bred with The Matrix with a dash of Constantine thrown in, only with no rhyme or reason as to which parts of each of those films can or can't be effectively combined.
For me, Constantine was a brilliant film that managed to combine all these elements in a modern setting. A lot of people give it shit because Keanu is in it (the haters) but he is PERFECT in that role. Likewise, the plot and storyline in Constantine is so spot on.
When I first saw the trailer, the thought that jumped out at me was that this would be a Junior Varisity version of Constantine.
I will say this about the "fighting angels with bullets" thing: there's something about modern weapons being effective against religious / mythical creatures and figures that we have difficulty accepting even though we usually give it a pass if the weapon is archaic. Guns vs. Angels, we (myself included) tend to think it's silly. But no one questions the wooden stake through a vampire's heart, and I bet fewer people would find it silly if the angels were being felled with swords.
Just an interesting quirk in audience expectations...
Again, Constantine was able to find a way to make the modern weaponry feel 'right' to the audience, making their own bullets with holy articles and a cross emblem on the bullet casings, holy water, and basically incorporated the arcane with modern weapons. The end result is that it felt 'right' and should work.
But you are right, normally, we don't think modern weapons will have any impact on the angelic/demonic but tend to suspend our disbelief for the older weapons. I'll have to keep this fact in mind in my writings.
For me it's not a critique of reality. That's obviously been abandoned. I'm more critical of the fine (and obviously entirely subjective) line between extremely cool and completely stupid. It appears to me that this film, in its earnest approach, hop-scotches all across that line...
Yeah, from what I've seen, the plotholes look huge and the storyline seems sorta a jumbled mess. Like the focus of the movie will be on just the 'cool' factor.
Mel...
