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superb......................

williamsgwynfa from , 4th May, 2009

Angels and Demons is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code which is also based on the novel and works of Dan Brown. The CERN who work on experiments using antimatter through the medium of physics summon Robert Langdon the Harvard symbologist played by Tom Hanks to investigate a murder victim branded with the Illuminati ambigram and also to prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican. Robert discovers that the Illuminati (the secret society) plan to kill four Roman Catholic cardinals and destroy St. Peter's Basilica with the stolen antimatter in the form of a bomb during a papal conclave. This film also stars Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria Vetra who is a CERN scientist, Ewan McGregor who plays the Camerlengo Patrick McKenna and Stellan Skarsgård who plays Commander Richter the Head of the Swiss Guard. Angels and Demons is directed by Ron Howard (formerly Richie from Happy Days). Well worth watching !

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28 out of 28 people found the following review helpful:

Not like the book

A Customer from Manchester, 14th May, 2009

I have just been to see the film and felt that they changed too much or cut alot of it out. I firstly felt that one of the characters in the book Maximillian Kholer SHOULD have been in the film. I felt that the Da Vinci Code was more accurate to the book itself but Angels and Demons was changed too much. I feel slightly let down.

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16 out of 16 people found the following review helpful:

Nothing great

Nat8 from , 17th May, 2009

I'm not quite sure what it is, but I felt that there was something missing from this film. As another review mentioned it isn't like the book but admittedly so many films don't run true to the books they are based on but to me this film just felt watchable, it didn't excite me. Acting was good and even though the film is over 2 hrs it didn't seem to drag. For me (even though I have seen it) it would be a 'wait til dvd' one.

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13 out of 13 people found the following review helpful:

Brilliant Watch, Disappointing End!

A Customer from SW London, 15th May, 2009

Like the Da Vinci Code, this instalment of Dan Brown's next saga following the adventures of Robert Langdon, was just as good as the original although the end left me disappointed. I haven't read Dan Brown's books so I am not interested in comparing how truthful the movie was to the book. I have learnt that movies do not always have to be like the book.In reality a movie has it's limitations and in writing a book the limitations are removed. As a movie, it certainly kept the viewer interested from beginning to end. I had hoped that the end would leave the viewer with more questions marks regarding the Illuminati instead, all the loose ends were carefully sorted and answered just in time for the credit roll,which was quite frankly a let down.Brown's ideal to marry the church and science in a peaceful pact in the end was what I call a sloppy, lazy ending. Being an ex-catholic and knowing full well that the Catholic Church have tried for so many years to surpress any opposing thoughts to the Church's doctrine I was hoping this aspect would be explored more fully instead of being conveniently labelled as 'flawed men doing God's work'. Nevertheless still a good watch, I just wish more challenging movies on the subject matter were made.

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Angels and Demons

lansdowne from , 2nd September, 2010

Excellent - better than the Da Vinci Code and a really enjoyable evening's viewing with an armchair whizz around Rome, with plenty of action and suspense thrown in too.

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Enjoyable romp through Rome

Dapprman from , 30th August, 2010

Firstly it's worth noting I've not read Angels and Demons. Secondly I watched the extended version (both this and the original are available on the DVD). I did enjoy this film, the cinematic side of it is superb and it is very well directed, however I never ever felt any real tension or urgency behind it. I suspect very much through the translation from book to film. I suspect if you're a Dan Brown fan you may be disappointed, but coming with a fresh perspective I enjoyed it.

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Not as good as the book

A Customer from England, 25th August, 2010

This film was good - but you have to avoid comparing it to the book as it misses out a lot of detail. As a film on its own it was dramatic with enough tension to keep you interested and the storyline was explained well. I personally don't like Tom Hanks in the lead role but that's probably because I had my own image of what he should look like from reading the books.

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Worst film in a long time

A Customer from Bristol, 21st August, 2010

I had really high hopes for this, I thought the fact that it was based on the better of Dan Browns books it would be good. However what was a good book with some real innovative ideas and writing has been turned into a dumbed down, stupid persons explanation of even the basic catholic practices, making the storyline more like a lesson in religion, and a bad one at that, than a film. Then you can add the poor choice in actors, on top of the badly written storyline and you end up with wooden acting with spates of over acting in spades, and the ever so tiresome role of americans saving the world again, or in this case the entire catholic church. Then there is the obvious and idoitic inclusions into the story, for example why is there suddenly a massive demostration outside the vatican, or the fact that the Italian police are driving american cars, we all know that the Italian police only drive Italian cars. This film isn't worth the time to watch, unless your into self harm that is, bad acting, bad storyline, too long, and badly excuted, I have given it one star because in all fairness it did show off the blu-ray format occasionally.

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