Movie review – Angels & Demons (2009)
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The book Angels & Demons is a prequel to The Da Vinci Code, while the film version is positioned as a sequel, and I think that works. After the events of the first film, the Church is not exactly pleased with Robert Langdon, and that makes it even more interesting when the only person they can ask to help them with a kidnapping and a conspiracy is someone they have denounced.
The Pope has died, and an ancient society of some secret agenda has kidnapped the four cardinals who are the potential Popes. They have also placed a bomb in the middle of Vatican City and left a series of clues all through the city that tie back into ancient Church history, something only Langdon (Hanks) can solve. Of course, Langdon does that, but he does so by accident.
If it wasn't taking itself so seriously, I could have confused this film for a Pink Panther sequel. Langdon bumbles and stumbles forward from one crazy danger to the next discovering things less with the power of his own deduction, and more because he happens to be there. The way the story and the twists unfold, if Langdon had never come, with the exception of the last moments, he would have had no major impact on the events that eventually transpire.
Still, the film is better on the eyes. The Da Vinci Code felt cheaply produced, and swooping shots of the country-side aside, it felt very visually strangled. Angels & Demons, on the other hand, looks brighter, better filmed and quite lavishly produced. The success of the first film wrought some good, at least. We are treated to some magnificent location-establishing shots, and even with large parts of exposition, the camera is moving at interesting angles.
The fact that Tom Hanks has gotten himself a decent haircut this time helps, too. He is after all one of the most likeable stars, and his presence itself is amiable throughout the film. There is zero chemistry between his Langdon and CERN scientist Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), but they make for a fun goofy couple doing slapsticky things (they even pretend to be married to study a murder site).
Despite that, Howard and his cast rise to the challenge, and deliver a fast-paced, good-looking and decently-acted-in film. I wish I could like a movie about a knowledgeable geek type at the lead more. I wish I could say better things than this is better than the last film. However, true believers, there are talks of yet another Langdon film on an unpublished book. At the rate at which these films have improved, the next one could yet be good.
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