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"Passive" by A Perfect Circle.

Near the end of the movie, Constantine is attacked by Gabriel so he commits suicide to lure Lucifer out. (As stated earlier in the film, Constantine is probably the only person that Lucifer would personally appear to collect.) Knowing that Satan himself is powerful enough to stop his own son Mammon from taking over Earth, Constantine informs Lucifer that his son Mammon (with help from the archangel Gabriel) is in the next room preparing to take over and rule Earth. After stopping Mammon and Gabriel from completing their ritual, Lucifer offers to thank Constantine with one wish to which Constantine requests that Angela's twin sister Isabel be spared and sent to Heaven instead of remaining in Hell. Lucifer grants Constantine's wish and just as he is about to take Constantine away, both are interrupted by a divine light that begins to take Constantine to heaven (reward for sacrificing himself in exchange for Isabel.) Realizing that Constantine's selfless sacrifice just duped him, Lucifer grabs Constantine and resurrects him; curing him of his cancer and leaving him on Earth. (The substance that Lucifer is holding in his hands is Constantine's cancer.) By resurrecting him, Lucifer tells Constantine that he now has a second chance to commit another sin and prove that he truly belongs in Hell.

At the end of the movie, Constantine - now free of lung cancer - decides to chew gum instead of smoke.

PRO:

Reeves has confidently entered his self-parodic period. You'll enjoy his wry post-Matrix murmurs and squinty stares. -- Ken Tucker, New York Magazine

MIXED:

Constantine, which opts in the end for what I can only describe as a kind of supernatural humanism, is not without its spiritual satisfactions. -- Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times

CON:

Though the story is potentially fascinating and the visuals sometimes spellbinding, the movie itself is stranded in the purgatory of the second-rate. -- Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

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