Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Jim Campilongo on July 26, 2005 at 14:22:18

In Reply to: Constantine posted by KT88 on July 26, 2005 at 09:19:47:

I was just thinking about Constantine - I was watching Coppola's "Dracula" last night and it struck me how good the film was , LESS Keanu Reeves. Oldman was riveting, Hopkins gave a wonderful quirky performance and the film was fun - with unpredictable shadows , buckets of blood and erotica and buxom Vampira's. Despite these elements , I turned the film off in the middle ! I was so annoyed by Keanu's blatant California surfer accent , bad acting and poor .... well EVERYTHING!
I thought the same of Constantine. Constantine was fun to watch , occasionally scary and was attempting (in my opinion) to be a bit more then your average Hollywood mainstream mind fodder. All this of course was undermined by Keanu Reeves , who stumbles in & out of character so quickly that the viewer is left confused and *under*whelmed by whatever character he plays. What if an ACTOR like Christian Bale played played his part (and Howard Hughes instead of Leo for that matter!)
Is Keanu such a box office draw that film makers sidestep his acting talents and allow him to ruin films? Or in the case of borderline films like “Dracula” and “Constantine” he drags them from respectable to dreary.