Once I got past the fact that John Constantine was now a chain-smoking Angeleno instead of a chain-smoking Englishman, "Constantine" was pretty entertaining and fit the tone of the "Hellblazer" books I read several years ago. "LXG" (from the ADD-addled Fox marketers who brought you lazy-phrase titles like ID4 and X2) had potential, but just didn't work for me, either as a standalone movie or (especially) in comparison to the books. Quatermain was too much of a tough guy, Mina Murray lacking in mystery, and Tom Sawyer just unnecessary. The only thing the movie really nailed was Jeckyll and Hyde. Having Quatermain temporarily dead spoils some of the tension of Vol. 2; a zombie screwing a vampire just ain't the same as a still-mortal human getting it on with a bloodsucker.