Angels and Demons

Today I had the pleasure of seeing Angels and Demons, the prequel to the Da Vinci code. Once again director Ron Howard teams up with Tom Hanks to deliver the latest installment of the film series.

Professor Robert Langdon is called to the Vatican to help with deciphering the clues which lead to the re-apperance of the Illuminati, an old secret society which felt that science would always trump religion. The Illuminati has taken a powerful anti matter from a research facility and has promised to destroy the Vatican and much of Rome, Prof. Langdon teams up with the Dr. in charge of the anti matter research team in Geneva to uncover the mystery and stop the illuminati.

This was just an OK movie. It was nowhere near as good as the Da Vinci code. The first part of the film had me telling myself I hated it. Tom Hanks played a great Robert Langdon come to think of it — he never plays a bad part. This flick was slow to build, and quick to disappoint. Danielle and I both found it very easy to figure out what was going to happen, their was not much mystery to the story and I’ve never read the book so I went into it blind and still found it far from hard to figure out what was happening next. The ending took a decent turn I did not see coming, but that was really the only surprising part the whole movie.

Overall it’s a rental really, I don’t think you need to rush out and see it right now. It’s not the worst movie, I enjoyed it — however it was nowhere near as good as it’s predecessor.