Angels and Demons Details

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[Highly rated reviewer]

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

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 !

great but im disappointed

I honestly thought that this was a good film. I decided to read the book first though and i wish i read it afterwards.

Right from the beginning i knew it was going to be inaccurate. More people knew about the antimatter than there had been in the book. There was also three characters missing from the film. One of them is who the illuminati was supposed to be blamed on. But that was changed.

The ending was different, with someone who dies in the book actualy surviving.

For a big american blockbuster with explosions etc it was good. But i was disappointed by the missing of scenes and characters and the whole thing felt rushed. As if they were on a strict time limit and couldn't be bothered to do it all properly.