Angels and Demons reviews (2008)

Angels and Demons details

Formats:	12 DVD, 15 Blu-ray
Starring:	Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, David Pasquesi, Cosimo Fusco, Cosimo Fusco, Pierfrancesco Favino, Stellan Skarsgard, Nicolaj Lie Kaas, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Director:	Ron Howard
Genres:	Drama - Mystery, Thriller - Mystery, General
Studio:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Collections:	100 Most Wanted, Top 400 All-Time Rentals

Name	Discs
Angels and Demons	12 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	2 hours 13 minutes
Rental release:	14 Sep 2009
Main languages:	English, English Audio Description
Subtitles:	Catalan, Castilian Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, English, Danish, Swedish

Name	Discs
Angels and Demons	15 Feature

Blu-ray Information

Run time:	2 hours 18 minutes
Rental release:	14 Sep 2009
Main languages:	English, English Audio Description
Subtitles:	English, Hindi

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LOVEFiLM Review Angels and Demons

By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLM

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard unite for their fourth pairing with this follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
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Most helpful review Angels and Demons

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

By williamsgwynfa (627 reviews) from gwaenysgor , 04 May 2009

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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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Da Demonic Cod

By FullofStars (41 reviews) from Scotland , 04 May 2013

Sadly, it was pretty clear right from the start what the 'twist in the tail' would be. Not up to the standard of the Da Vinci Code (which is actually the sequel to this story in the books) which has some originality. Tom Hanks lazy performance and uninspired Ron Howard direction creates a Die Hard with a Vengeance storyline without the humour. The symbologist Hanks is reduced to finding his way through the Vatican by looking a which way a statue points an arrow...yawn. Could have been so much better.
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Average and demons

By Philopolis (2 reviews) , 27 Dec 2012

The Da Vinci Code showed us a special genre of film that few, talented people can successfully show. Unfortunatly this doesn't show in this confusing sequel, the sella cast portray a greta amount of the story to which I owe my Generous rating.
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could have been better

By a customer , 14 Dec 2012

I Liked this film very much but found the mystery solving a bit repetitive. good twist at the end. Tom Hanks as usual scores.
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More than a Religious story.

By 4Viv (9 reviews) , 07 Dec 2012

Intriguing story, which addtionally gives a few lessons about Catholic and Papal cultures - fascinating. Religion and science dont have to exist separate of each other.
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Not exactly like the Novel

By a customer , 03 Nov 2012

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I must admit I actually enjoyed this film, but having read the book I realised just how much they changed the story to bring it to the cinema. In parts the film just didn't make sense particularly why the camerlengo acted in the way he did. It made so much more sense in the novel.

Huge parts were left out and characters left out and storylines completely changed. I know it was based on the book, but I think Loosely based would be a better description, for a start all 4 cardinals were killed in the book, and it was Vitorria's Father that was killed in the beginning not her assistant, and he was branded with the ambigram Illuminati. And what happened to the illuminati diamond, other than just being an icon at the start of the DVD??

Slightly disappointed this film wasn't as truthful to the novel as I had expected, but still an enjoyable film.

If you watch this then go read the book after to see what you missed!!
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