Jul 16, 2009 10:08 AM
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Credits
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Director: Roh Howard
Actors: Tom Hanks aka Robert Langdon, Ayelet Zurer aka Vittoria Vetra.
DirectorRon Howard is back with his second offering of Robert Langdon'sreligious adventure in the form of Angels and Daemons. This is anadaptation from Dan Brown's novel which goes by the same name. Thoughwritten before Da Vinci Code, this was made into a movie after thesuccess of Da Vinci Code.
The beloved pope has died undermysterious circumstances. 4 cardinals/preferitti(i.e. the preferredpeople for the pope's role) have been kidnapped from the vatican.
Aletter has been sent to church threatening to eliminate the 4preferitti's. Along with the letter, is a scribbling of symmetricalwords on a paper. Illuminati are supposed to be back and with avengeance!
Symbologist Robert Langdon(Tom Hanks) is enjoying a dipin his pool when he is requested to come to Vatican to help solve themystery. The 4 preferitti's are supposed to be eliminated one after theother, every hour, starting at 8 in the night.
Vatican in the 16thcentury was supposedly against Science and philosophy. The scientistsand philosophers were tortured and humiliated during that period. Theyhas supposedly formed a secret brotherhood called Illuminati. In oneincident 4 scientists were killed in 16th century. This kidnapping wassupposed to be to take revenge against the Vatican.
In the meantimea scientific experiment is being conducted to collide particles at thespeed of light to obtain the antimatter. The experiment is a successand scientists are able to extract the antimatter into small glassjars. Vittora Verti is thrilled to know about this and rushes to thelaboratory only to find fellow scientist dead on the floor and one jarof anti matter missing.
Vetri and Langdon meet at the vatican to solve the twin mysteries.
What follows next is a tale of following clues and gory killings.
My Impression
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Itis a very interesting tale of Illuminati and the secret brotherhood.Also interesting is the suspense and drama in the backdrop of theVatican. Though I have not read Angels and Daemons, I could follow thestory quite easily and enjoy it thoroughly.
The thrill factor ismaintained throughout the movie. The story of Angels and Daemons islike Da Vinci in the sense that there is supposed to be a brotherhoodand Rober Langdon follows a series of clues. Also, both stories wereabout Christianity. But both pieces of work are different in the factthat the story line is entirely different. So in that sense, it was apleasure to be treated with a new suspense movie.
I had a great time watching it and I would consider it a great work.
Cons
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Icould find many loop holes in the story. Either I did not watch themovie properly or I was really engrossed and was able to catch themistakes
Rating
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I will give it a 7 out of 10 and a thumbs up for the effort.
