Angels & Demons (2009)
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.
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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Cast
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Tom Hanks
Robert Langdon -
Ayelet Zurer
Vittoria Vetra -
Ewan McGregor
Camerlengo -
Stellan Skarsgĺrd
Commander Richter -
Pierfrancesco Favino
Inspector Olivetti -
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Assassin -
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Cardinal Strauss -
Thure Lindhardt
Chartrand -
David Pasquesi
Claudio Vincenzi -
Cosimo Fusco
Father Simeon -
Victor Alfieri
Lt. Valenti -
Franklin Amobi
Cardinal Lamasse -
Curt Lowens
Cardinal Ebner -
Bob Yerkes
Cardinal Guidera -
Marco Fiorini
Cardinal Baggia -
Carmen Argenziano
Silvano Bentivoglio -
Howard Mungo
Cardinal Yoruba -
Rance Howard
Cardinal Beck -
Steve Franken
Cardinal Colbert -
Gino Conforti
Cardinal Pugini -
Elya Baskin
Cardinal Petrov -
Richard P. Rosetti
Conclave Cardinal -
Silvano Marchetto
Conclave Cardinal -
Thomas Morris
Urs Weber -
Jonas Fisch
Adrian Bachman -
Xavier J. Nathan
Phillippe -
Anna Katarina
Docent -
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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.
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?
This is not a good movie.
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?
If these movies made any damned sense, the public response might be no more than a yawn.
Angels and Demons is an OK action film, but only the humorless will find it heretical -- or educational.
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.
In many respects, Angels & Demons is a pretty straightforward terrorist-hostage film.
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.
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.
Tom cracks the code, again.
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.
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.
Talky, violent conspiracy thriller will bore kids and teens.
doesn't provide any coherent vision of the world
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.
A farcical, farfetched, patience-testing, 2 1/2-hour insult to the intelligence.
Plucked eyeballs, Catholic jihad, swiped secrets of living matter, and egghead metaphysical sleuths without a clue.
Audience Reviews for Angels & Demons
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- Vittoria Vetra: Are you really a symbologist or it was a joke?
- Robert Langdon: Er... both.
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- Inspector Olivetti: Are you anti-catholic, Professor Langdon?
- Robert Langdon: What?, No. I'm anti-vandalism.
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- Commander Richter: God particle?
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- Father Simeon: I need to see the Camarlengo.
- Chartrand: He is not available.
- Father Simeon: I NEED TO SEE THE CAMARLENGO!
- Chartrand: HE-IS-NOT-A-VAILABLE!
- Father Simeon: We will see that.
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- Cardinal Strauss: Religion is flawed because man is flawed.
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- Cardinal Strauss: Mr. Langdon, thanks be to God for sending someone to protect His church.
- Robert Langdon: I don't believe He sent me, Father.
- Cardinal Strauss: Oh my son, of course He did...
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