angels

Starring:

Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgard

Director: Ron Howard

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Rated: PG-13

Angels & Demons the prequel to the Controversial Da Vinci Code, Once again Stars Tom Hanks as Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon this time he is summoned to the Vatican to find out who kidnapped four Cardinals who are in line to be the next pope as well as find a missing Antimatter bomb which threatens to destroy Vatican City.

While not having the same controversy surrounding it as the Da Vinci Code, Angels &  Demons based on Dan Browns first novel starring  Symbologist Robert Langdon is set against the backdrop of Vatican City and is a religious based thriller, Rather than the Templar’s this one has the Illuminati as the Antagonists. Angels & Demons however feels like a paint by numbers thriller. Rather than feeling like you are part of the mystery Robert Langdon drags you along for what feels like a historical scavenger hunt. The film panders to the audience explaining everything as it is happening basically holding your hand step by step until it’s over. One huge flaw of the film is the terrible CGI, I expect a little more from Ron Howard. The helicopter at the end looks so fake that rather than being engrossed in the final minutes you are thinking that they ran out of budget and had an intern finish up the effects. From the get go the entire two hours and twenty minutes is explain what your looking for, find what your looking for and repeat until the trail leads to the end. Even the somewhat of a twist ending is so easy to figure out that it isn’t much of a twist at all.  In fact the best part of Angels & Demons Is that the Power Mullet hairstyle Tom Hanks sports in the Da Vinci Code is thankfully absent here.

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