I have a confession to make (which is kind of apt for a couple of films about Catholicism). No matter how unfashionable it is to say it, I kinda liked The Da Vinci Code movie.
Yes, I know, it was over-hyped to the hilt, but it was good fun.
Dan Brown's novels are at their very core, very good yarns, written with the big screen in mind.
Chapters are short and lend themselves to a fast paced short scene movies. In fact, reading Brown's work is almost like reading a screenplay.
And Ron Howard's job is simple - he just recreates the novel on the big screen.
So after the success of the first movie, the second in the Robert Langdon series couldn't fail.
And it doesn't.
It's a fast paced fun film which sees Harvard lecturer Professor Langdon return to this time work on the side of the Vatican in a fast-paced chase to solve a series of ancient clues to save a bunch of Cardinals from gory deaths at the hands of a mysterious group of academics knows as the Illuminati, while all along searching for a Cern created weapon of mass destruction which uses ant-matter and which has the capability of obliterating the heart of Rome.
Phew.
And what we get in return is again, a well directed film, which is well acted with Tom Hanks (whose acting skills get better and better as time goes on).
Hanks is joined by Ayelet Zurer and Ewan McGregor, but the real star of the film is Vatican City. In many ways, you could look at Angels and Demons as the longest tourist film in history. And I for one can't wait to return.
Of course A&D, like The Da Vinci Code before it, is fiction. No need to get hot under the collar about the mad outcomes and plotlines which Brown draws up.
Angels and Demons is a rip-roaring film, which is well worth a view.
Angels and Demons - Trailer
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