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Angels & Demons (2009)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 246
Fresh: 90 | 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: 42
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 28

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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

PG-13, 2 hr. 19 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Directed By: Ron Howard

Written By: David Koepp, Akiva Goldsman

In Theaters: May 15, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Nov 24, 2009

Box Office:$133.4M

Sony/Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Tom Hanks
Robert Langdon
Ayelet Zurer
Vittoria Vetra
Ewan McGregor
Camerlengo
Stellan Skarsg�rd
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
Naomi Watts

Critic Reviews for Angels & Demons

All Critics (249) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (90) | 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

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

Top Critic

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

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

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This is not a good movie.

May 18, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies

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Ben Lyons

At the Movies

Top Critic

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

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Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

Top Critic

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

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David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

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

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Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

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

February 11, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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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

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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

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Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

Tom cracks the code, again.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au

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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

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Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

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

March 11, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinenganos

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Luis Martinez

Cinenganos

Talky, violent conspiracy thriller will bore kids and teens.

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

Angels & Demons struggles to maintain momentum as Langdon hurtles around Rome.

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Times

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Sonny Bunch

Washington Times Source: Washington Times

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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

John Manard

Super Reviewer

liked this movie way more than I should have

January 24, 2012

Jason Robinson

Super Reviewer

Angels & Demons Quotes

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1. Robert Langdon: Do you smoke?
2. Chartrand: A little bit.
3. Robert Langdon: You should better sit down before you kill off.
– Submitted by Javis C (4 days ago)
1. Phillippe: Please don't blow us to heaven.
– Submitted by Javis C (4 days ago)
1. Assassin: God I've become a sinner.
– Submitted by Javis C (4 days ago)
1. Vittoria Vetra: I'm sorry professor but there's no time [she rips off the page from Diagrama]
2. Robert Langdon: Yes, what the hell.
– Submitted by Javis C (4 days ago)
1. Camerlengo: Mr Langdon. Would it surprise you that the suit fits you well?
2. Robert Langdon: That would surprise the hell out of me.
– Submitted by Javis C (4 days ago)

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