Recently I viewed the movie Angels & Demons. It is a 2009 release directed by Ron Howard and stars Tom Hanks as Dr. Robert Langdon, a fictional professor of religious symbology. The movie is a sequel to the 2006 film The DaVinci Code.
The action begins almost immediately in the movie with the murder of a leading scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the theft of a vial containing antimatter which has the potential to be used as a weapon of mass destruction. The scientist’s daughter is also employed at CERN and becomes another primary character in the film.
The movie skips to Rome where the Pope dies of an apparent stroke, and shortly thereafter four of the most likely successors to the pope, known as the preferiti, are kidnapped. The kidnappers release a video showing the kidnapped cardinals and the vial of antimatter. In the video, the kidnappers claim to be part of a 400 year old antichristian secret society known as the Illuminati. The kidnappers state that they plan to kill the cardinals and then destroy Vatican City in a great ball of light.
Dr. Langdon is called in due to his expertise in Catholic Church symbology and is teamed up the murdered CERN scientist’s daughter to hopefully foil the plans of the kidnappers. I found the movie mildly entertaining. I found the timeline to be very implausible as it portrays the main characters racing all over Rome chasing clues and trying to beat the four hour timeline given by the kidnappers. In my opinion, the star of the film was actually all the beautiful architecture, sculptures and artwork in the film. This is definitely not a film I would watch more than once.
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