Angel & Demon Movie Review

SYNOPSIS

When Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati -- the most powerful underground organization in history -- he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the secret organization's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. When Langdon learns that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, he jets to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that mark the Vatican's only hope for survival.


Angels and Demons commits the gross movie sin of having the plot and characters ultimately not honestly landing where they were aimed. There’s twist for twists sake. There is nothing wrong with the audience figuring out how a movie is going to end and who the bad guys are. It’s wrong to figure it out and then have everything you’ve been shown and told be twisted off the rails for the sake of a surprise ending. While watching Angels and Demons, I could feel that there was a twist coming. It was plainly apparent. Because of this, I could not take the characters in the movie at face value as they were portrayed, with the exception of Tom Hank’s Robert Langdon, who must remain a pillar of truth for anything to work. I knew that many of the characters in the movie were not going to arrive in places honestly that the narrative was leading them. If Angels and Demons had finished telling the more than interesting story that it had set out to tell, we would have had a scholarly but facinating and especially honorable movie to watch.

Review From beyondhollywood.com