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Synopsis: John Constantine is approached by Det. Angela Dodson who needs his help to prove that her twin sister Isabel's death was not a suicide. The dead woman was a devout Catholic and Angela refuses to accept she would have taken her own life. She's asked Constantine for help because he has a reputation for dealing with the mystical. In fact, he is a demon hunter whose sole purpose on Earth is to send demons back to the nether regions. John himself has been to Hell and knows that he is destined to return there on his death - but hopes his good deeds may find him a place in Heaven. As he looks into Isabel's death, he realizes demons are trying to break through to the human world, and his battles lead him into a direct conflict with Satan.
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Director(s): Francis Lawrence
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
R
Year:
2005
132 min
$75,400,000
Website
2,838 Views


Eyes snap open and she's off him in a second, runs out.

John pries himself from the tile, goes after her.

INT. BEHIND THE ALLEY

Angela runs behind the vertebrae of machines, drippingwater the entire way. John tries to keep up.

ANGELA:

It was rolling toward him --not a

ball --something smaller. Shiny.

She stops, kneels to the floor. John walks up to join her.

Something glints in the catch trough. She reaches down,

plucks it up and brings an odd COIN INTO VIEW -

John's face contorts with rage as he takes the familiarcoin.

JOHN:

Balthazar.

INT. JOHN'S APARTMENT -LATER

Beeman's bowling bag is flipped and the contents aredumped onto a table. Powder, bugs and bullets goeverywhere. John retrieves the odd-tipped bullets.

Those brass knuckles and that copper pipe are taken also.

CHRISTIAN RELICS

are removed from a display cabinet.

There's the pure platinum Flask of Divinity, thepetrified husk from the River of Life --the hollow shaft

of an iron cross --all striking pieces individually butwhen twisted and locked together form a very imposing -

(CONTINUED)

81.

CONTINUED:

--HOLY SHOTGUN.

He swings the cross down, pours a pound of blastingpowder into the husk --chambers a special bullet intoone of the ten barrels, snaps it shut --turns and FIRES.

BULLET leaves a trail of flame as it streaks across his

endless apartment, blasts the center out of --

A carton of Lucky Strikes.

SETTLE ON the Surgeon General's warning --burning away.

ANGELA (V.O.)

Can you kill him? What about the

Balance?

INT. JOHN'S APARTMENT -LATER

John is stuffing the bowling bag while Angela watches,

now dressed in dry clothes. That shirt is John's.

JOHN:

That half-breed tipped my scaleswhen he started killing myfriends. I'm just adding a littlecounterweight.

John lifts that holy shotgun --KA CHICK --

ANGELA:

What about me? I can't stay hereforever.

John turns to her --locks on those eyes. He reaches

into his coat pocket as he walks up to her. She shudders

as his arms wrap around her face and for a beat they'recheek to cheek. When he pulls back she sees he has

clipped Hennessey's AMULET around her neck.

JOHN:

Think of it as a bulletproof vest.

ANGELA:

So I'm going.

JOHN:

(knows he can't win)

You're staying in the car.

82.

INT./EXT. 20 LANES -DAWN

FAT-ASS TIRES BURN under the full torque of a 426 HEMI.

A jet-black '70s BARRACUDA BLASTS from the basement

garage of 20 Lanes --slides onto the streets of L.A.

Angela hangs on as John grabs the SKULL shifter knob -slams

into 2nd --leaves another layer of tread behind.

EXT. OCEAN

FLYING OVER the ocean, a 747 ROARS RIGHT OVER US.

Dipping out of cloud cover, it reveals the coast of asprawling metropolis stretched out miles below.

L.A. LANDMARKS -DAWN

streak PAST. The Big Donut, the occult bookstores, the'57 Chevy sign, that Mission in the park.

This is actually the POV FROM John's Barracuda.

He downshifts --DRIFTS PAST a building with a facade of

pre-stressed concrete and huge gold letters --"BZR

FINANCE AND BROKERAGE."

JOHN (O.S.)

This shouldn't take long.

INT. BZR BROKERAGE

Elevator opens and John steps out into a lobby ofconcrete and glass. Pretentious design screams money.

Lots of it.

Since trading is still a half hour away, the place ispractically empty.

Across the room a stainless steal DOOR HISSES open. John

looks the other way as a Security Guard exits. Thick

DOOR glides closed, seals with another HISS. No way in.

John notices the janitor down one hallway. It's Nico

from Midnite's. He and John lock stares. Nico opens a"Security Only" door, steps inside --leaves the door

open.

INT. TRADING ROOM

Monitors are powering up around the room. A few of those

Young Businessmen we last saw at Midnite's are here.

(CONTINUED)

83.

CONTINUED:

YOUNG TURK:

(into phone)

Hey, early bird is a fat bird,

know what I'm sayin'?

Balthazar walks through, looking every bit like the smugand successful businessman he is. He stops at a LONGMIRROR on one wall. Adjusts his collar, his hair. His

"look."

PRETTY BOY:

What are we pushing today, sir?

BALTHAZAR:

Phillip Morris.

As Balthazar admires himself, his reflection distortsslightly. The demon in him? He touches his face, does avowel stretch. His face distorts even further.

That's got him moving closer to the mirror.

Balthazar's concerned because now his skin appearsin motion, rippling as if liquefied. And just when hesees the surface of the mirror BLISTERING and starts to

move --

BOOOM --

One way GLASS EXPLODES outward on the front edge of aFIREBALL --sending Balthazar flying with glass andflame.

John stands on the other side in an ACCESS CHANNEL -that

Dragon's breath flamethrower now duct-taped to hisholy shotgun.

JOHN:

How's he doing it?

John steps into the trading room, eyes Balthazar risingfrom the floor. Suit's in shreds, half his face isburned off, but now he's pissed.

BALTHAZAR:

This is in direct violation of the

Balance!

JOHN:

Screw the Balance.

John hits him with another BLAST of FLAME --pins himhard against the wall.

(CONTINUED)

84.

CONTINUED:

Balthazar's young turks attack. One leaps over thetrading station. John swings around --aims the SHOTGUN

--BOOM --half-breed is blasted midair.

The other turk seems to defy gravity as he scampersacross the ceiling. John aims up --PUMPS SEVERAL ROUNDS

--steps out of the way as a body falls, smashes into adesk. BOOM --BOOM --that'll keep it down.

INT. BARRACUDA

Angela hears the GUNSHOTS. Cop instinct takes over andshe gets out of the car. Checks the amulet. Intact.

INT. BZR TRADING ROOM

John turns his attention back to Balthazar, doesn'thesitate and hits him with a continuous tide of flame.

Suit and skin is peeling off, revealing something elseunderneath. The true form.

JOHN:

How's he doing it, you half-breed

sh*t?!

John swings the flame aside so he can KICK Balthazar

against the wall. But now his WEAPON SPUTTERS. Sh*t.

Charcoal hand thrusts out, bats away the shotgun andgrabs John by the throat.

Balthazar rises from the ashes. He may be burned, buthe's one tough son of a b*tch.

Balthazar slides John up a wall by his neck. John can't

break his hold. He's choking, frantically rummagesthrough his coat pockets. Comes out with those sacred

GOLD KNUCKLES on his right hand.

Balthazar tightens his grip and John swings, clocks himacross the face. The enhanced punch sends a dizzyingripple throughout Balthazar's body.

But he doesn't let go. John is choking, starts whalingon him. Again and again --each punch weakening thisdemon more.

John finally gets him against the wall. Right arm'stired so he slips the gold knuckles onto his left hand,

and with extreme pleasure --continues punching away.

Drives Balthazar to the floor, right to the brink ofdeath.

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Kevin Brodbin

Kevin Brodbin is an Irish screenwriter. His credits include writing the screenplay and story for The Glimmer Man (1996) and Mindhunters (2004). He is also the co-author of Constantine (2005), the film adaptation of the DC Comics comic book Hellblazer. In addition, Brodbin worked on the screenplays for The X Men and its sequels, as well as the film version of The A-Team. More recent projects include James Cameron's remake of the sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage. He scripted and produced the 2016 film The Siege of Jadotville, which was released by Netflix Original Films. more…

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