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Angels & Demons (2009)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 248
Fresh: 92 | Rotten: 156

Angels and Demons is a fast-paced thrill ride, and an improvement on the last Dan Brown adaptation, but the storyline too often wavers between implausible and ridiculous, and does not translate effectively to the big screen.

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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 47
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 30

Angels and Demons is a fast-paced thrill ride, and an improvement on the last Dan Brown adaptation, but the storyline too often wavers between implausible and ridiculous, and does not translate effectively to the big screen.

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Angels and Demons re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel The Da Vinci Code, the movie transpires after the events of the earlier movie. Hanks stars as professor Robert Langdon, the most respected symbologist in the United States, who uses his knowledge in order to decode a symbol on the skin of a murder victim. The clues

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Mystery & Suspense, Drama

David Koepp, Akiva Goldsman

Nov 24, 2009

$133.4M

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Critic Reviews for Angels & Demons

All Critics (251) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (92) | Rotten (159) | DVD (8)

Why are quality pros like Howard and Hanks involved in this enterprise? Do they need the money? Angels and Demons is sure to make plenty. But their artistic souls will do hard time in purgatory for it.

June 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comments (5)
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
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At one point Hanks can be glimpsed gasping for air, mid-endless-sentence. Has there ever been a flatter movie character played by a more innately likable star?

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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This is not a good movie.

May 18, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comments (10)
Ben Lyons
At the Movies
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We're left to wonder, who in the Vatican can really be trusted? And also, will Ron Howard continue to make movies about a character who comes alive on the page, but sputters on the big screen?

May 18, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies
Ben Mankiewicz
At the Movies
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If these movies made any damned sense, the public response might be no more than a yawn.

May 18, 2009 Full Review Source: New Yorker | Comments (4)
David Denby
New Yorker
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Angels and Demons is an OK action film, but only the humorless will find it heretical -- or educational.

May 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
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Angels & Demons is housewife-targeted holiday read nonsense, given a Hollywood spit 'n' shine and go-faster stripes by a once-burned, twice-shy director desperate to make amends.

September 29, 2012 Full Review Source: TheShiznit.co.uk
Ali Gray
TheShiznit.co.uk

In many respects, Angels & Demons is a pretty straightforward terrorist-hostage film.

February 11, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment (1)
James Plath
Movie Metropolis

If The Da Vinci Code was characterized by people sitting at tables and talking, then this sequel-set film of the prequel book is characterized by people walking briskly and talking.

January 21, 2012 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment (1)
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Taking a hint from past mistakes, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks return to the fanciful historical styling's of Dan Brown to create a much more entertaining and thrilling mystery, as science and religion, martyrs and heretics clash in Angels and Demons.

January 4, 2012 Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews
Matthew Pejkovic
Matt's Movie Reviews

Tom cracks the code, again.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au | Comment (1)
Don Groves
sbs.com.au

Angels & Demons isn't the complete shambles a lot of people wanted it to be. But then that probably isn't the greatest endorsement either.

April 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire | Comment (1)
Sam Bathe
Fan The Fire

Buena historia policiaca, donde el tema religioso lejos de servir de polémica a la turba enardecida, es simplemente el pretexto perfecto para generar un dinámico thriller que no le pide nada a una aventura del 007.

March 11, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinenganos
Luis Martinez
Cinenganos

Talky, violent conspiracy thriller will bore kids and teens.

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (2)
Sandie Angulo Chen
Common Sense Media

doesn't provide any coherent vision of the world

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews
Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews

It appears that Ron Howard knew that he had to change the way everything was done in the previous film, and sending Tom Hanks to the barber was a very good start.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com
Brian Holcomb
CinemaBlend.com

A farcical, farfetched, patience-testing, 2 1/2-hour insult to the intelligence.

November 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Sly Fox | Comment (1)
Kam Williams
Sly Fox

Plucked eyeballs, Catholic jihad, swiped secrets of living matter, and egghead metaphysical sleuths without a clue.

November 13, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze
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Good suspenseful thriller. At the end the Cardinals lines "'Religion is flawed because man is flawed.'' what a classic. . great story better than Da Vinci Code.
November 28, 2009
jmanard52
John Manard

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Follow-Up to the Da Vinci Code is an average adaptation of a very good book. Now I preferred the book of course, and I was curious to see how this one would look on-screen. Angels & Demons was a great book, exciting, pulse pounding and truly unique. Ron Howard's film version is much like his previous outing and it is a flawed, but nonetheless is entertaining for what it is. Acting wise, the cast do what they can with the so-so material and Tom Hanks doesn't really shine here, and he has performed in far better films than this. If you loved the book, you may like this one, but you'll also think it is lacking in terms of effective directing. Ron Howard used to make great films, but nowadays he seems fairly hit and miss=.Although Angels & Demons is a good film, it leaves a lot of room for improvement. This movie is simply a case of the book is far better than the film, and it lacks despite the fact that it delivers some entertainment value. I wasn't totally let down by this one, but there is just so many aspects that could have been improved upon. The best thing about the film is that they're fairly well adapted, but the performances just aren't as great as they should be, and the material could have been better in terms of the script. The problem I have with the film is that, though it's very close to the source material, there simply isn't any soul to the film. Overall it plays out like a mindless thriller that should have been truly something special. Angel & Demons is fun, but the book is better as it leaves constantly guessing and thrilled right up to the end. With the film adaptation, Ron Howard doesn't seem like he wants to take risk with changing a few things and really letting loose and making a movie that stands out as a fine thriller. Good, but could have been better. Read the book before seeing this average movie, you'll be glad you did.
March 7, 2013
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

Angels & Demons Quotes

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    1. Vittoria Vetra: Are you really a symbologist or it was a joke?
    2. Robert Langdon: Er... both.
    – Submitted by Javis C (4 months ago)
    1. Inspector Olivetti: Are you anti-catholic, Professor Langdon?
    2. Robert Langdon: What?, No. I'm anti-vandalism.
    – Submitted by Javis C (4 months ago)
    1. Commander Richter: God particle?
    – Submitted by Javis C (4 months ago)
    1. Father Simeon: I need to see the Camarlengo.
    2. Chartrand: He is not available.
    3. Father Simeon: I NEED TO SEE THE CAMARLENGO!
    4. Chartrand: HE-IS-NOT-A-VAILABLE!
    5. Father Simeon: We will see that.
    – Submitted by Javis C (4 months ago)
    1. Cardinal Strauss: Religion is flawed because man is flawed.
    – Submitted by Nicanor R (4 months ago)
    1. Cardinal Strauss: Mr. Langdon, thanks be to God for sending someone to protect His church.
    2. Robert Langdon: I don't believe He sent me, Father.
    3. Cardinal Strauss: Oh my son, of course He did...
    – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)

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