Angels & Demons is better than the Da-Vinci Code

Robert Langdon is back and continuing his new adventures in the sequel of The Da – Vinci Code, Angels and Demons. The Oscar winner, Tom Hanks who plays as Harvard Professor, Robert Langdon shows his new haircut in this movie. But I will not talk about his new haircut because I’m not a columnist of Cosmopolitan Magz.

Fortunately, it annoys me to tell this because Angels and Demons is a good film that finds a better balance between exposition and action than its predecessor.

In this movie, Langdon is recruited by Vatican officials to help them prevent an attack on the Catholic Church. Langdon's opposition is the Illuminati, a secret society of scientific thinkers who seek vengeance against the Church for centuries-old persecutions. On the eve of a papal conclave to select a new pope, the Illuminati have kidnapped the four Preferiti -- or papal successors -- and planted a volatile amount of combustible antimatter somewhere in Vatican City. With hours to spare before the antimatter is detonated, Langdon recruits sexy scientist Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) on a last-ditch mission to trace a rumored Path of Illumination across Rome, apprehend the Illuminati's hired assassin (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), retrieve the kidnapped bishops, and defuse the bomb.

For your information, Dan Brown wrote Angels and Demons before the Da Vinci Code but the director, Ron Howard and screenwriters Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp have made it a sequel because The Da – Vinci Code is Brown’s bestselling novel.

In my opinion, Angels and Demons is just like a full session of US TV series, 24. As long as 8 hours, Langdon and his team try to discover the mastermind of this terror and also swap the political deception for religion versus science conspiracies. Though Angels and Demons actually preceded The Da Vinci Code, both of them show the same storytelling method by cramming ancient history and also artistic history.

It is obviously seen that Ron Howard and his team tried to lighten the mood by relating the story with Salvatore Totino’s photographs of Rome as if its gorgeous architectural structures are separate characters. Meanwhile the score is very wonderful; Hans Zimmer writes a playful ominous score that could strengthen the movie. And Tom Hanks tries to inject humor whenever possible.

The visual effects are very are unbelievable, The setting of Vatican City and also Vatican Achieves are very palpable and real. The explosion in St Peter’s Square caused by the antimatter is very horrifying and perhaps this is what will happen if the antimatter explodes.

Meanwhile the Catholic reviewers have called Angels and Demons harmless, because I think it didn’t dwell on its many controversies. Unlike Da vinci Code which struck a raw nerve at the centre of the faith. And if anything, this film served as a great tourism promotional video with a nice showcase of the many prominent touristy landmarks that would entice many around the world to go pay a visit. Through this movie we can enjoy the view of Vatican City, the churches and also the beautiful fountains, but the view of St Peter's Square and Basilica from inside and outside are the most important things that we can get from this movie.

Finally, I would recommend you watch this film if you're looking to have a good time and live through an incredible adventure.

POSTED by EKU BARUNA G. 0608185