Our favorite Anti-Religious Catholic Crusader is back…err…strikes the first time…again…
Tom Hanks plays Robert Langdon one more time (or for the first time if you choose to go with the time line of the books and not the screen play) in this religious puzzle “Angels and Demons”
Despite his notorious relationship with the Church, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is once again called upon to decipher the clues to a catastrophic conspiracy. The Pope has died, and before conclave can begin to determine his successor, the four preferitti (primary hopefuls for the papacy) are kidnapped. An ominous threat of their hourly demise, along with the complete annihilation of Vatican City, is issued as an elaborate revenge scheme for a persecuted group known as the Illuminati. With their meager time limit steadily counting down, Langdon, accompanied by beautiful physicist Vittoria Vetra, must travel throughout Rome to unravel the carefully hidden signs that will lead them to a terrifying adversary, a harrowing discovery, and the shocking truth.
-From IMDb
The screen play to the Angels and Demons movie was based off the book that took place before the events in the “Da Vinci Code” . I was interested in seeing how they could adapt this prequel into a sequel. The events that took place prior to this investigation in “Angels and Demons” the movie are often referenced, and yet the people that brought him in to the investigation still treated Landgon as if he did not solve one of the greatest Catholic puzzles a few months prior.
Regardless if the order you choose to accept, you walk away from this movie saying “Really? He fell for the same thing twice?” when you think back on the actions that Langdon chose to take.
Yes there is another trader in their midst, no it is not the blatantly obvious enemy of the church.
This movie had the support of a strong cast (including one of my favorites Ewan Mcgregor), yet failed to make me think that this movie was more than a second attempt at a duplicated premise.
Catholics will appreciate the information in the movie, but it can wait until it hits DVD….and you want to watch a slightly different version of the “Da Vinci Code”.
Rating 3 out of 6
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