[Music] the e e e hi welcome back to the filmy review channel in this video we'll review movie Angels and Demons many people wants to know about this movie in detail so in this video we'll give you detailed review about this movie and talk about other interesting facts apart from this we'll also talk about production box office collection cast and plot details so if you really want to know about this movie in detail then watch this video till the end Angels and Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by AKA goldsman and David Coupe based on Dan Brown's 2000 novel of the same title it is the sequel to the 2006 film The DaVinci Code also directed by Howard and the second installment in the Robert Langdon film series however the novel version was published before The DaVinci Code novel filming took place in Rome Italy and the Sony pictur Studios in Culver City California Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon while ilet Zora stars as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist joining langon in the quest to recover a missing vial of antimatter from a mysterious Illuminati terrorist producer Brian graser composer Hans Zimmer and screenwriter Akiva goldsman also returned with David Coupe coming on board to help the latter the film grossed $485.9 million worldwide becoming the ninth highest grossing film of 2009 and received mixed reviews from critics who considered it an improvement over its predecessor a sequel titled Inferno was released on October 28th 2016 plot the Catholic Church Mourns the sudden death of Pope P 16th and prepares for the papal conclave to elect his successor in Vatican City Father Patrick McKenna the camareno temporarily controls the Vatican during the S of Vante period meanwhile at CERN scientists father silvano bentivoglio and Dr Victoria Vetra create three canisters of antimatter as Vetra goes to evaluate the experiment she discovers that silvano has been murdered and one canister stolen shortly there after four of the preferiti the favored candidates to be elected Pope are kidnapped by a man claiming to represent the Illuminati he sends the Vatican a warning claiming he will murder each of the Cardinals one every hour from 8:00 p.m. to midnight when the stolen antimatter hidden somewhere within the city will explode and destroy it due to his involvement with the prior of Sion in Paris and London American symbologist Professor Robert Langdon is brought to the Vatican by claudo venzi to help after listening to the Assassin's threat he deduces that the four Cardinals will be murdered on the four altars of the path of Illumination in locations relevant to the classical elements McKenna gives Langdon access to the Vatican secret archives to research the altars against the wishes of Commander RoR head of the Swiss guard Langdon and Dr VRA examined Galileo galilea's baned book Finding Clues to the first altar initially believing it to be at the pantheon they eventually Discover it to be the chiggy chapel though they rush to the chapel accompanied by Ernesto olivetti and claudo venzi of the core of gundary of Vatican City they are too late to save Cardinal Ebner who suffocated on a mouthful of dirt and branded with the ambig grammatic word Earth following the clue left at a Bernini statue at the chiggy chapel Langdon discovers the second altar is a Bernini created sculpture in St Peter Square upon reaching it they find Cardinal Lamas mortally wounded his lungs punctured and his chest branded with the ambigram air a threatening note left on Lam's body leads Vetra to suspect that Pas 16 did not die of a stroke but was murdered with an overdose of tinzaparin which he took for his thrombol fitis this is confirmed when McKenna and Vetra secretly inspect the body in the Vatican necropolis after returning to the archives for further research Langdon olivetti and venzi identifi the Santa Maria de la voria as the alar of fire where they fail to save Cardinal gadera branded with the ambigram fire from burning to death the Assassin appears and kills everyone except Langdon before escaping after Consulting a map of Rome Langdon identifies the final altar as patan nauna's four River's sculpture escorted by two Vatican police officers they find the Assassin attempting to drown Cardinal bagia who is branded with the ambigram water the officers are killed by the Assassin but Langdon aided by bystanders rescues bagia bagia tells Langdon he was held with the preferiti in Castel Sant Angelo RoR confiscates Dr silvano's journals thus convincing Vetra that he is a conspirator Langdon Vetra and the police storm Castel santangelo Langdon and Vetra find the Assassin's Lair discovering the four Brands used on the Cardinals and deduce that the missing fifth is meant for McKenna the Assassin confronts them but leaves the two unharmed he claims he was hired by men of God and warns them to be careful guided to an escape car the Assassin is killed kill when it explodes Langdon and VRA find a secret passageway leading to the Vatican warning the Swiss God of McKenna's fate they find RoR hovering over a branded McKenna RoR and Archbishop Simeon and alleged conspirator are killed Langdon retrieves a key from the dying RoR hand the anti-at container is found in St Peter's tomb due to detonate in 5 minutes the C temperature has prematurely drained the battery according to Vetra the device would not have enough residual charge to keep the antimatter in suspension McKenna a former helicopter pilot seizes the canister and Pilots a helicopter into the sky parachuting out seconds before the antimatter detonates the explosion unleashes a powerful blinding shock wave throughout Vatican City but no lives are lost and the church is saved McKenna is ha as a hero with calls for him to be elected Pope by acclamation langden and VRA retriev silvano's journals from R's office finding he kept tabs on the pope with hidden security cameras for medical reasons using the key Langdon retrieved from RoR they discovered that McKenna was the true Mastermind behind the attacks the pope had invited silvano to publicly present the antimatter as proof of a divine power Bridging the Gap between religion and Science and potentially ending the conflict between them considering such a claim blasphemy McKenna orchestrated Pas 16's death and hired the Assassin plotting to have himself elected as Pope while making the Illuminati the scapegoat the footage is shown to the papal conclave McKenna realizing he has been exposed commits suicide via self-immolation the following morning Cardinal bagia is elected as the new pope he chooses to take the name Pope Luke an illusion to the biblical Luke being both a doctor and an apostle symbolically Bridging the Gap between science and religion the Vatican also announces McKenna has died from injuries from his parachute Landing which leads to calls for sainthood since the people are not aware that he was The Mastermind Cardinal Strauss the Pope's new calango gives Galileo's book to langon as thanks for his help asking that he ensure it returns to the Vatican in his last will and testament Pope Luke gives Langdon and Vetra a thankful nod before stepping out on the balcony to greet the crowd below and give the traditional First U at ore as Pope cast Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon a Harvard University professor of symbology Yan mcre as Father Patrick McKenna the cango IET zurer as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist whose antimatter experiment has allegedly been stolen by the Illuminati stellen scarc as Commander maximilan RoR head of the Swiss guard Pier Francesco favino as Inspector General Ernesto olivetti of the jarm corps of Vatican City State Nikolai lias as the Assassin Armin Mueller stal as Cardinal Strauss dean of the College of Cardinals and the papal conclave f lindhart as liutenant Chartrand officer of the Swiss guard since Angels and Demons depends on a split second schedule and a ticking time bomb that could destroy the Vatican it's a little distracting when the cameno a priest entrusted with the Pope's duties between papies breaks into the locked Enclave of the College of Cardinals and lectures them on centuries of church history these men many of them elderly May face death in minutes which the cango knows the commander of the Swiss guard thinks he can Evacuate the Vatican and the hundreds of thousands of faithful waiting in St Peter's Square in 15 minutes before an explosion vaporizes a big chunk of Rome but frankly we in the audience think a lot of monor back home are going to receive promotions real soon since very few plot details in the film are remotely plausible including its desperate Chase across Rome the history lesson is excusable having been told about the long war between the church and the Illuminati and religion and science we are grateful for the briefing even if the Cardinals already know most of the history this kind of film requires us to be very forgiving and if we we are it promises to entertain Angels and Demons succeeds it's based on a novel that came before The DaVinci Code in Dan Brown's U Professor Robert Langdon Tom Hanks is at Harvard when he is summoned from a swimming pool by an emissary from the Vatican and flown to Rome to face a crisis earlier we learned a rare sealed vial of antimatter was stolen from the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and a note-taking credit comes from the Illuminati a secret society that has long hated the Catholic church because of the days when it persecuted Galileo and other scientists a popular and Progressive Pope has just died the Cardinals have been summoned to elect his successor four of them the prefera the favorites to be next Pope have been kidnapped they will be executed in succession at AG 8 9 10 and 11:00 p.m. until the battery on the antimatter vial runs out of juice at midnight and the faithful will see more than a puff of white smoke above the Vatican I don't recall if the Illuminati had any demands maybe it just wants revenge in that case why hide the vial at the end of a trail that can only be followed by Clues discovered or intuited by Professor Langdon why not just blow up the place what is the purpose of the scavenger hunt has it all been laboriously constructed as a test of langdon's awesome knowledge are the Illuminati trying to get even after langon foiled Opus day another secret society in the DAV Vinci Code I don't know and reader there is no time to care Langdon uses his knowledge of Illuminati symbols to follow the trail though four Rome churches he has uncanny luck he spots and correctly identifies every clue even though they're very well hidden just as well because one dungeon overlooked or one Statue pointing the wrong way and he loses for His companion Langdon has the beautiful and Brilliant Victoria Vetra IET zurer from CERN her father was murdered in the anti-matter theft her purpose is a to explain that the battery will indeed run down B requ EST her father's secret journals from Geneva although they are never read and C run along everywhere with Tom Hanks to provide him with urgent conversation meanwhile there is Intrigue within the Vatican and lots of red herrings among all the Red Hats the young calango Yan McGregor the adopted son of the late pontiff joins the professor's desperate Quest as does the commander stellen Skarsgard of the the Pope's protectors the Swiss guard inside the conclave Cardinal Strauss Armen meller stall is in charge of the election because of his sinister mean I love the phrase sinister mean German accent and absolutist views on Church tradition he seems set up to be a suspect since the progressive Pope's death may have been an inside job I forgot to mention that there has also been time to exume the pontiff's remains and discover evidence of poisoning all of this happens at Breakneck speed with little subtlety but with fabulous production values the Interiors of the cistin chapel the pantheon churches tombs and crypts are rendered dramatically the College of cardinals looks both a very impressive and B like a collection of elderly extras from sinita the film by no means tilts the conflict between science and religion one way or the other the professor is not religious indeed seems agnostic but the church however is not portrayed as anti-science Galileo would be happy that there is now a Vatican Observatory if the Illuminati are indeed scientists they would better employ themselves not avenging ancient Deeds but attacking modern fundamentalist Cults the professor has a fascinating exchange with the calango who asks him if he believes in God he believes he says that the existence is God is beyond his mind to determin and your heart asks the priest my heart is not worthy agnostics and Believers can both find something to agree with there director Ron Howard does an even-handed job of balancing the scales so good indeed that even after Howard accused the Church of refusing him access to Vatican location and although the Dependable William Donahue of the Catholic league has attacked his film Angels and Demons received a favorable review from the official Vatican newspaper Lo servator Romano which wrote it is a harmless entertainment which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity and come on Ron would you expect the church to let you shoot a Dan Brown Thriller in the cistin chapel get real one day God willing there will be a fine film made about the making of The DaVinci Code sequel it will show how an Intrepid bunch of Hollywood Fat Cats built a Blasphemous Blockbuster under the noses of the Vatican establishment how they smuggled spies disguised as tourists into Rome's holy sites and pretended that they were shooting an altogether different movie called Obelisk on the streets outside until then we must make do with angels and demons the lumbering result of all that fleet-footed Ingenuity and a film so broadly supportive of the Catholic church that one wonders what all the fuss was about in the first place where The DaVinci Code ruffled the sequel sooths it is a portly cash stuffed gesture at atonement Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon the Harvard symbologist with a PhD in expository dialogue a screen hero so bereft of Personality that it is all Hanks can do to make him walk and talk at the same time the dicese hates Langdon but it needs his help in the wake of the old Pope's death a clandestine science worshipping cult the Illuminati have kidnapped four Cardinals and planted a bomb in Vatican City that's bad happily the Illuminati have also posted a video that both outlines their plans in considerable detail and contains a number of cryptic clues for our hero to pour over that's good or at least goodish because it allows Langdon to go huffing and puffing from one Church to the next squeezing into secret passages and spouting off about pentagrams he's like a tour guide who's just swallowed an Enid blighton Anthology Angels and Demons is directed with a dogged dutiful persistence by Ron Howard and it co-stars EET Zur as a physicist and Yan McGregor in what turns out to be film's most ambiguous role the Vatican State's fresh-faced Progressive acting head of state a sort of David Cameron of Catholicism elsewhere Armen Mall's silky Cardinal steps up to explain that religion is flawed but only because men is sick flawed which seems to mirror the film's own ethos its argument is that while there are a few bad eggs in the Catholic Church the institution is well worth preserving and that science is not necessarily any better particularly when it produces antimatter devices that might blow up and kill people if the film is never quite as inert as The DaVinci Code I hesitate to call this a thriller it's big bombastic and glossy but it is also stiff and sometimes ludicrous screenwriters David coip and Thea goldsman have taken Dan Brown's Source novel written before Da Vinci but set afterwards and hotwired it with an array of stock cinematic tricks so that it lurches from Vatican archives 7:25 p.m. to Vatican Grotto 9:37 p.m. while Hanks provides his running commentary the first Cardinal winds up dead at 8 and Langdon has until midnight to decipher his Clues and crack his code after that the entire city will be consumed by a Celestial fire that Latin Scholars refer to as the Great cabore and off he goes talking talking all the while the action does not quite play out in real time except that shees it sometimes feels that way Angels and Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by AKA goldsman and David Coupe based on Dan Brown's 2000 novel of the same title it is the sequel to the 2006 film The DaVinci Code also directed by Howard and the second installment in the Robert Langdon film series however the novel version was published before The DaVinci Code novel filming took place in Rome Italy and the Sony pictur Studios in CA City California Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon while ilet zoraa stars as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist joining langon in the quest to recover a missing V of antimatter from a mysterious Illuminati terrorist producer Brian graser composer H Zimmer and screenwriter Akiva goldsman also returned with David Coupe coming on board to help the latter the film grossed $485.9 million worldwide becoming the ninth highest grossing film of 2009 and received mixed reviews from critics who considered it an improvement over its predecessor a sequel titled in Inferno was released on October 28th 2016 plot the Catholic Church Mourns the sudden death of Pope P 16th and prepares for the papal conclave to elect his successor in Vatican City Father Patrick McKenna the camareno temporarily controls the Vatican during the S of Vante period meanwhile at CERN scientists father silvano bentivoglio and Dr Victoria Vetra create three canisters of antimatter as Vetra goes to evaluate the experiment she discovers that silvano has been murdered and one canister stolen shortly thereafter four of the preferiti the favored candidates to be elected Pope are kidnapped by a man claiming to represent the Illuminati he sends the Vatican a warning claiming he will murder each of the Cardinals one every hour from 8:00 p.m. to midnight when the stolen antimatter hidden somewhere within the city will explode and destroy it due to his involvement with the prior of Sion in Paris and London American symbologist Professor Robert Langdon is brought to the Vatican by clao venzi to help after listening to the Assassin's threat he deduces that the four Cardinals will be murdered on the four altars of the path of Illumination in locations relevant to the classical elements McKenna gives Langdon access to the Vatican secret archives to research the altars against the wishes of Commander RoR head of the Swiss guard Langdon and Dr VRA examine Galileo galilea's Banned Book finding Clues to the first altar initially believing it to be at the pantheon they eventually discovered it to be the chiggy chapel though they rushed to the chapel accompanied by Ernesto olivetti and CLA venzi of the core of jundia Vatican City they are too late to save Cardinal Ebner who suffocated on a mouthful of dirt and branded with the ambig grammatic word Earth following the clue left at a Bernini statue at the chiggy chapel Langdon discovers the second altar is a Bernini created sculpture in St Peter's Square upon reaching it they find Cardinal Lamas mortally wounded his lungs punctured and his chest branded with the ambigram air a threatening note left on Lam's body leads Vetra to suspect that Pas 16 did not die of a stroke but was murdered with an overdose of tinzaparin which he took for his thrombol fitis this is confirmed when McKenna and Vetra secretly inspect the body in the Vatican necropolis after returning to the archives for further research Langdon olivetti and vincenzi identified the Santa Maria de la Victoria as the altar of fire where they failed to save Cardinal gadera branded with the ambigram fire from burning to death the Assassin appears and kills everyone except Langdon before escaping after Consulting a map of Rome Langdon identifies the final altar as patan noona's Four Rivers sculpture escorted by two Vatican police officers they find the Assassin attempting to drown Cardinal bagia who is branded with the ambigram water the officers are killed by the Assassin but Langdon aided by bystanders rescues bagia bagia tells Langdon he was held with the preferiti in Castel santangelo RoR confiscates Dr silvano's journals thus convincing VRA that he is a conspirator Langdon Vetra and the police storm Castel santangelo Langdon and VRA find the Assassin's Lair discovering the four Brands used on the Cardinals and deduce that the missing fifth is meant for McKenna the Assassin confronts them but leaves the two unharmed he claims he was hired by men of God and warns them to be careful guided to an escape car the Assassin is killed when it explodes Langdon and VRA find a secret passageway leading to the to the Vatican warning the Swiss guard of McKenna's fate they find RoR hovering over a branded McKenna RoR and Archbishop Simeon an alleged conspirator are killed Langdon retrieves a key from the dying R's hand the antimatter container is found in St Peter's tomb due to detonate in 5 minutes the cold temperature has prematurely drained the battery according to Vetra the device would not have enough residual charge to keep the antimatter in suspension McKenna a former helicopter pilot seizes the canister and Pilots a helicopter into the sky parachuting out seconds before the antimatter detonates the explosion unleashes a powerful blinding shock wave throughout Vatican City but no lives are lost and the church is saved McKenna is hailed as a hero with calls for him to be elected Pope by acclamation L and VRA retriev silvano's journals from R's office finding he kept tabs on the pope with hidden security cameras for medical reasons using the key Langdon retrieved from RoR they discover that McKenna was the true Mastermind behind the attacks the pope had invited silvano to publicly present the antimatter as proof of a divine power Bridging the Gap between religion and Science and potentially ending the conflict between them considering such a claim blasphemy McKenna orchestrated Pas 16's death and hired the Assassin plotting to have himself elected as Pope while making the Illuminati the scapegoat the footage is shown to the papal conclave McKenna realizing he has been exposed commits suicide via self-immolation the following morning Cardinal bagia is elected as the new pope he chooses to take the name Pope Luke an illusion to the biblical Luke being both a doctor and an apostle symbolically Bridging the Gap between science and religion the Vatican also announces McKenna has died from injuries from his parachute Landing which leads to calls for sainthood since the people are not aware that he was The Mastermind Cardinal Strauss the Pope's new calango gives Galileo's book to Langdon as thanks for his help asking that he ensure it written turns to the Vatican in his last will and testament Pope Luke gives Langdon and Vetra a thankful nod before stepping out on the balcony to greet the crowd below and give the traditional First Ur at ore as Pope cast Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon a Harvard University professor of symbology un McGregor as Father Patrick McKenna the kamango IET zurer as Dr Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist whose antimatter experiment has allegedly been stolen by the Illuminati stellen scar scord as Commander maximilan RoR head of the Swiss guard Pier Francesco favino as Inspector General Ernesto olivetti of the jandarm corps of Vatican City State Nikolai lias as the Assassin Armen Mueller stal as Cardinal Strauss dean of the College of cardinals and the papal conclave fur lindhart as liutenant Chartrand officer of the Swiss guard since Angels and Demons depends on a split second schedule and a ticking time bomb that could destroy the Vatican it's a little distracting when the cameno a priest entrusted with the Pope's duties between papies breaks into the locked Enclave of the College of Cardinals and lectures them on centuries of church history these men many of them elderly May face death in minutes which the cango knows the commander of the Swiss guard thinks he can Evacuate the Vatican and the hundreds of thousands of faithful waiting in St Peter's Square in 15 minutes before an explosion vaporizes a big chunk of Rome but frankly we in the audience think a lot of monsenor back home are going to receive promotions real soon since very few plot details in the film film are remotely plausible including its desperate Chase across Rome the history lesson is excusable having been told about the long war between the church and the Illuminati and religion and science we are grateful for the briefing even if the Cardinals already know most of the history this kind of film requires us to be very forgiving and if we are it promises to entertain Angels and Demons succeed it's based on a novel that came before The DaVinci Code in Dan Brown's U Professor Robert Langdon Tom Hanks is at Harvard when he is summoned from a swimming pool by an emissary from the Vatican and flown to Rome to face a crisis earlier we learned a rare sealed vial of antimatter was stolen from the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and a note taking credit comes from the Illuminati a secret societ society that has long hated the Catholic church because of the days when it persecuted Galileo and other scientists a popular and Progressive Pope has just died the Cardinals have been summoned to elect his successor four of them the prefera the favorites to be next Pope have been kidnapped they will be executed in succession at 8 9 10 and 11:00 p.m. until the battery on the antimatter vial runs out of juice at midnight and the faithful will see more than a puff of white smoke above the Vatican I don't recall if the Illuminati had any demands maybe it just wants revenge in that case why hide the vial at the end of a trail that can only be followed by Clues discovered or intuited by Professor Langdon why not just blow up the place what is the purpose of the scavenger hunt has it all been laboriously constructed as a test of langdon's awesome knowledge are the Illuminati trying to get even after Langdon foiled opa's day another secret society in The Da Vinci Code I don't know and reader there is no time to care Langdon uses his knowledge of Illuminati symbols to follow the trail though four Rome churches he has uncanny luck he spots and correctly identifies every clue even though they're very well hidden just as well because one dungeon overlooked or one Statue pointing the wrong way and he loses for His companion Langdon has the beautiful and Brilliant Victoria VRA IET zurer from CERN her father was murdered in the anti-matter theft her purpose is a to explain that the battery will indeed run down B request her father's secret journals from Geneva although they are never read and see run along everywhere with Tom Hanks to provide him with urgent conversation meanwhile there is Intrigue within the Vatican and lots of red herrings among all the Red Hats the young calango Yan McGregor the adopted son of the late pontiff joins the professor's desperate Quest as does the commander stellen Skarsgard of the Pope's protectors the Swiss guard inside the conclave cardinal Strauss Armen mu stall is in charge of the election because of his sinister mean I love the phrase sinister mean German accent and absolutist views on Church tradition he seems set up to be a suspect since the progressive Pope's death may have been an inside job I forgot to mention that there has also been time to exume the pontiff's remains and discover evidence of poisoning all of this happens at Breakneck speed with little subtlety but with fabulous production values the Interiors of the cistin chapel the pantheon churches tombs and crypts are rendered dramatically the College of cardinals looks both a very impressive and be like a collection of elderly extras from sinita the film by no means tilts the conflict between science and religion one way or the other the professor is not religious indeed seems agnostic but the church however is not portrayed as anti-science Galileo would be happy that there is now a Vatican Observatory if the Illuminati are indeed scientists they would better employ themselves not avenging ancient Deeds but attacking modern fundamentalist Cults the professor has a fascinating exchange with the caleno who asks him if he believes in God he believes he says that the existence is God is beyond his mind to determine and your heart asks the priest my heart is not worthy agnostics and Believers can both find something to agree with there director Ron Howard does an even-handed job of balancing the scales so good indeed that even after Howard accused the Church of refusing him access to Vatican locations and although the Dependable William Donahue of the Catholic league has attacked his film Angels and Demons received a favorable review from the official Vatican newspaper Lo servator Romano which wrote it is a harmless entertainment which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity and come on Ron would you expect the church to let you shoot a Dan Brown Thriller in the cistin chapel get real one day God willing there will be a fine film made about the making of The DaVinci Code sequel it will show how an Intrepid bunch of Hollywood Fat Cats built a Blasphemous Blockbuster under the noses of the Vatican establishment how they smuggled spies disguised as tourists into Rome's holy sites and pretended that they were shooting an all together different movie called Obelisk on the streets outside until then we must make do with angels and demons the lumbering result of all that fleet-footed Ingenuity and a film so broadly supportive of the Catholic church that one wonders what all the fuss was about in the first place where the DaVinci Cod ruffled the sequel suits it is a portly cash stuffed gesture at atonement Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon the Harvard symbologist with a PhD in expository dialogue a screen hero so bereft of Personality that it is all Hanks can do to make him walk and talk at the same time the dicese hates Lang but it needs his help in the wake of the old Pope's death a clandestine science worshiping cult the Illuminati have kidnapped four Cardinals and planted a bomb in Vatican City that's bad happily the Illuminati have also posted a video that both outlines their plans in considerable detail and contains a number of cryptic clues for our hero to pour over that's good or at least goodish because it allows was Langdon to go huffing and puffing from one Church to the next squeezing into secret passages and spouting off about pentagrams he's like a tour guide who's just swallowed an Enid blighton Anthology Angels and Demons is directed with a dogged dutiful persistence by Ron Howard and it co-stars eyet zurer as a physicist and Yan McGregor in what turns out to be film's most ambiguous role the Vatican State's fresh-faced Progressive acting head of state a sort of David Cameron of Catholicism elsewhere Armen mellery silky Cardinal steps up to explain that religion is flawed but only because men is sick flawed which seems to mirror the film's own ethos its argument is that while there are a few bad eggs in the Catholic Church the institution is well worth preserving and that science is not necessarily any better particularly when it produces anti-matter devices that might blow up and kill people if the film is never quite as inert as The DaVinci Code I hesitate to call this a thriller it's big bombastic and glossy but it is also stiff and sometimes ludicrous screen writers David coip and Thea goldsman have taken Dan Brown's Source novel written before Da Vinci but set afterwards and hotwired it with an array of stock cinematic tricks so that it lurches from Vatican archives 7:25 p.m. to Vatican Grotto 9:37 p.m. while Hanks provides his running commentary the first Cardinal winds up dead at 8 and Langdon has until midnight to decipher his Clues and crack his code after that the entire city will be consumed by a Celestial fire that Latin Scholars refer to as the great cblo and off he goes talking talking all the while the action does not quite play out in real time except that sheesh it sometimes feels that way Angels and Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by AKA goldsman and David Coupe based on Dan Brown's 2000 novel of the same title it is the sequel to the 2006 film The DaVinci Code also directed by Howard and the second installment in the Robert Langdon film series however the novel version was published before The DaVinci Code novel filming took place in Rome Italy and the Sony pictur Studios in Culver City California Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon while ilet zura stars as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist joining langon in the quest to recover a missing vial of antimatter from a mysterious Illuminati terrorist producer Brian graser composer Hans Zimmer and screenwriter Akiva goldsman also returned with David Coupe coming on board to help the latter the film grossed $485.9 million worldwide becoming the ninth highest grossing film of 2019 and received mixed reviews from critics who considered it an improvement over its predecessor a sequel titled Inferno was released on October 28th 2016 plot the Catholic Church Mourns the sudden death of Pope P 16th and prepares for the papal conclave to elect his successor in Vatican City Father Patrick McKenna the camareno temporarily controls the Vatican during the S of Vante period meanwhile at CERN scientists father silvano boglio and Dr Victoria Vetra create three canisters of antimatter as Vetra goes to evaluate the experiment she discovers that vano has been murdered and one canister stolen shortly thereafter four of the preferiti the favored candidates to be elected Pope are kidnapped by a man claiming to represent the Illuminati he sends the Vatican a warning claiming he will murder each of the Cardinals one every hour from 8:00 p.m. to midnight when the stolen antimatter hidden somewhere within the city will explode and destroy it due to to his involvement with the prior of Scion in Paris and London American symbologist Professor Robert Langdon is brought to the Vatican by clao venzi to help after listening to the Assassin's threat he deduces that the four Cardinals will be murdered on the four altars of the path of Illumination in locations relevant to the classical elements McKenna gives Langdon access to the Vatican secret archives to research the altars against the wishes of Commander r head of the Swiss guard Langdon and Dr VRA examined Galileo galilea's Bann book Finding Clues to the first altar initially believing it to be at the pantheon they eventually discovered it to be the chiggy chapel though they rushed to the chapel accompanied by Ernesto olivetti and clao vincenzi of the core of jamary of Vatican City they are too late to save Cardinal Ebner who suffocated on a mouthful of dirt and branded with the ambig grammatic word Earth following the clue left at a Bernini statue at the chiggy chapel Langdon discovers the second altar is a Bernini created sculpture in St Peter's Square upon reaching it they find Cardinal Lamas mortally wounded his lungs punctured and his chest branded with the ambigram air a threatening note left on Lam's body leads Vetra to suspect that Pious 16s did not die of a stroke but was murdered with an overdose of tinzaparin which he took for his throof leitis this is confirmed when McKenna and Vetra secretly inspect the body in the Vatican necropolis after returning to the archives for further research Langdon olivetti and venzi identify the Santa Maria de la vitoria as the altar of fire where they failed to save cardal gerera branded with the ambigram fire from burning to death the Assassin appears and kills everyone except Langdon before escaping after Consulting a map of Rome Langdon identifies the final altar as patan noona's Four Rivers sculpture escorted by two Vatican police officers they find the Assassin attempting to drown Cardinal bagia who is branded with the ambigram water the officers are killed by the Assassin but Langdon aided by bystanders rescues bagia bajia tells Langdon he was held with the preferiti in Castel santangelo RoR confiscates Dr silvano's journals thus convincing Vetra that he is a conspirator Langdon Vetra and the police storm Castel santangelo Langdon and VRA find the Assassin's Lair discovering the four Brands used on the Cardinals and deduce that the missing fifth is meant for McKenna the Assassin confronts them but leaves the two unharmed he claims he was hired by men of God and warns them to be careful guided to an escape car the Assassin is killed when it explodes Langdon and VRA find a secret passageway leading to the Vatican warning the Swiss God of McKenna's fate they find RoR Hing over a branded McKenna RoR and Archbishop Simeon an alleged conspirator are killed Langdon retrieves a key from the dying R's hand the antimatter container is found in St Peter's tomb due to detonate in 5 minutes the cold temperature has prematurely drained the battery according to Vetra the device would not have enough residual charge to keep the antimatter in suspension McKenna a former helicopter pilot seizes the canister and Pilots a helicopter into the sky parachuting out seconds before the antimatter detonates the explosion unleashes a powerful blinding shock wave throughout Vatican City but no lives are lost and the church is saved McKenna is hailed as a hero with calls for him to be elected Pope by acclamation Langdon and VRA retriev silvano's journals from R's office finding he kept tabs on the the pope with hidden security cameras for medical reasons using the key Langdon retrieved from RoR they discover that McKenna was the true Mastermind behind the attacks the pope had invited silano to publicly present the antimatter as proof of a divine power Bridging the Gap between religion and Science and potentially ending the conflict between them considering such a claim blasphemy McKenna orchestrated P 16th death death and hired the Assassin plotting to have himself elected as Pope while making the Illuminati the scapegoat the footage is shown to the papal conclave McKenna realizing he has been exposed commits suicide via self imulation the following morning Cardinal bagia is elected as the new pope he chooses to take the name Pope Luke an illusion to the biblical Luke being both a doctor and an apostle symbolically Bridging the Gap between science and religion the Vatican also announces McKenna has died from injuries from his parachute Landing which leads to calls for sainthood since the people are not aware that he was The Mastermind Cardinal Strauss the Pope's new calango gives Galileo's book to Langdon as thanks for his help asking that he ensure it returns to the Vatican in his last will and testament Pope Luke gives Langdon and Vetra a thankful nod before stepping out on the balcony to greet the crowd below and give the traditional First urby at Orbee as Pope cast Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon a Harvard University professor of symbology Yan McGregor as Father Patrick McKenna the cango ilet zurer as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist whose antimatter experiment has allegedly been stolen by the Illuminati stellen scarc as Commander maximilan RoR head of the Swiss guard Pier Francesco favino as Inspector General Ernesto olivetti of the jandarm corps of Vatican City State Nikolai lias as the Assassin Armin Mueller stal as Cardinal Strauss dean of the College of Cardinals and the papal conclave th lindhart as leftenant Chartrand officer of the Swiss guard since Angels and Demons depends on a split-second schedule and a ticking time bomb that could destroy the Vatican it's a little distracting when the cameno a priest entrusted with the Pope's duties between papies breaks into the locked Enclave of the College of Cardinals and lectures them on centuries of church history these men many of them elderly May face death in minutes which the cango knows the commander of the Swiss guard thinks he can Evacuate the Vatican and the hundreds of thousands of faithful waiting in St Peter's Square in 15 minutes before an explosion vaporizes a big chunk of Rome but frankly we in the audience think a lot of monor back home are going to receive promotions real soon since very few plot details in the film are remotely plausible including its desperate Chase across Rome the history lesson is excusable having been told about the long war between the church and the Illuminati and religion and science we are grateful for the briefing even if the Cardinals already know most of the history this kind of film requires us to be very forgiving and if we are it promises to entertain Angels and Demons succeeds it's based on a novel that came before The DaVinci Code in Dan Brown's U Professor Robert Langdon Tom Hanks is at Harvard when he is summoned from a swimming pool by an emissary from the Vatican and flown to Rome to face a crisis earlier we learned a rare sealed vial of anti- matter was stolen from the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and a note taking credit comes from the Illuminati a secret society that has long hated the Catholic church because of the days when it persecuted Galileo and other the scientists a popular and Progressive Pope has just died the Cardinals have been summoned to elect his successor four of them the prefera the favorites to be next Pope have been kidnapped they will be executed in succession at 8 9 10 and 11: p.m. until the battery on the antimatter vial runs out of juice at midnight and the faithful will see more than a puff of white smoke above the Val Vatican I don't recall if the Illuminati had any demands maybe it just wants revenge in that case why hide the vial at the end of a trail that can only be followed by Clues discovered or intuited by Professor Langdon why not just blow up the place what is the purpose of the scavenger hunt has it all been laboriously constructed as a test of langdon's awesome knowledge are the Illuminati trying to get even after Lang and foiled Opus day another secret society in The Da Vinci Code I don't know and reader there is no time to care Langdon uses his knowledge of Illuminati symbols to follow the trail though four Rome churches he has uncanny luck he spots and correctly identifies every clue even though they're very well hidden just as well because one dungeon overlooked or one Statue pointing the wrong way and he loses for His companion Langdon has the beautiful and Brilliant Victoria Vetra AET zurer from CERN her father was murdered in the antimatter theft her purpose is a to explain that the battery will indeed run down B request her father's secret journals from Geneva although they are never read and C run along everywhere with Tom Hanks to provide him with urgent conversation meanwhile there is Intrigue within the Vatican and lots of red herrings among all the Red Hats the young calango Yan McGregor the adopted son of the late pontiff joins the professor's desperate Quest as does the commander stellen Skarsgard of the Pope's protectors the Swiss guard inside the conclave Cardinal Strauss Armin meller stall is in charge of the election because of his sinister mean I love the phrase sinister mean German accent and absolutist views on Church tradition he seems set up to be a suspect since the progressive Pope's death may have been an inside job I forgot to mention that there has also been time to exume the pontiff's remains and discover evidence of poisoning all of this happens at Breakneck speed with little subtlety but with fabulous production values the interior years of the ctin chapel the pantheon churches tombs and crypts are rendered dramatically the College of cardinals looks both a very impressive and B like a collection of elderly extras from sinita the film by no means tilts the conflict between science and religion one way or the other the professor is not religious indeed seems agnostic but the church however is not portrayed as anti- sence Galileo would be happy that there is now a Vatican Observatory if the Illuminati are indeed scientists they would better employ themselves not avenging ancient Deeds but attacking modern fundamentalist Cults the professor has a fascinating exchange with the caleno who asks him if he believes in God he believes he says that the existence is God is beyond his mind to determine and your heart asks the priest my heart is not worthy agnostics and Believers can both find something to agree with there director Ron Howard does an even-handed job of balancing the scales so good indeed that even after Howard accused the Church of refusing him access to Vatican locations and although the Dependable William Donahue of the Catholic league has attacked his film Angels and Demons received a favorable review from the official Vatican newspaper paper Lo servator Romano which wrote it is a harmless entertainment which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity and come on Ron would you expect the church to let you shoot a Dan Brown Thriller in the cistin chapel get real one day God willing there will be a fine film made about the making of The DaVinci Code sequel it will show how an Intrepid bunch of Hollywood Fat Cats built a blasphemous Blockbuster under the noses of the Vatican establishment how they smuggled spies disguised as tourists into Rome's holy sites and pretended that they were shooting an altogether different movie called Obelisk on the streets outside until then we must make do with angels and demons the lumbering result of all that fleet-footed Ingenuity and a film so broadly supportive of the Catholic church that one wonders what all the fuss was about in the first place where The DaVinci Code ruffled the sequel sus it is a portly cash stuffed gesture at atonement Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon the Harvard symbologist with a PhD in expository dialogue a screen hero so bereft of Personality that it is all Hanks can do to make him walk and talk at the same time the dicese hates Langdon but it needs his help in the wake of the old Pope's death a clandestine s sence worshiping cult the Illuminati have kidnapped four Cardinals and planted a bomb in Vatican City that's bad happily the Illuminati have also posted a video that both outlines their plans in considerable detail and contains a number of cryptic clues for our hero to pour over that's good or at least goodish because it allows Langdon to go huffing and puffing from one Church to the next squeezing into secret p messages and spouting off about pentagrams he's like a tour guide who's just swallowed an Enid blighton Anthology Angels and Demons is directed with a dogged dutiful persistence by Ron Howard and it co-stars IID zura as a physicist and Yuan McGregor in what turns out to be film's most ambiguous role the Vatican State's fresh-faced Progressive acting head of state a sort of David Cameron of Catholicism elsewhere Armen sty silky Cardinal steps up to explain that religion is flawed but only because men is sick flawed which seems to mirror the film's own ethos its argument is that while there are a few bad eggs in the Catholic Church the institution is well worth preserving and that science is not necessarily any better particularly when it produces anti-matter devices that might blow up and kill people if the film is never quite as inert as the Vinci codee I hesitate to call this a thriller it's big bombastic and glossy but it is also stiff and sometimes ludicrous screenwriters David coip and Thea goldsman have taken Dan Brown's Source novel written before Da Vinci but set afterwards and hotwired it with an array of stock cinematic tricks so that it lurches from Vatican archives 7:25 p.m. to Vatican Grotto 9:37 p.m. while Hanks provides his running commentary the first Cardinal winds up dead at 8 and Langdon has until midnight to decipher his Clues and crack his code after that the entire city will be consumed by a Celestial fire that Latin Scholars refer to as the great cblo and off he goes talking talking all the while the action does not quite play out in real time except that shees it sometimes feels that way Angels and Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by AKA goldsman and David Coupe based on Dan Brown's 2000 novel of the same title it is the sequel to the 2006 film The DaVinci Code also directed by Howard and the second installment in the Robert Langdon film series however the novel version was published before The DaVinci Code novel filming took place in Rome Italy and the Sony picture studios in Culver City California Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon while ilet zoraa stars as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist joining Langdon in the quest to recover a missing vial of antimatter from a mysterious Illuminati terrorist producer Brian Grazer composer H Zimmer and screenwriter Akiva goldsman also returned with David coup coming on board to help the latter the film grossed $485.9 million worldwide becoming the ninth highest grossing film of 2009 and received mixed reviews from critics who considered it an improvement over its predecessor a sequel titled Inferno was released on October 28th 2016 plot the Catholic Church Mourns the sudden death of Pope P 16th and prepares for the papal conclave to elect his successor in Vatican City Father Patrick McKenna the camareno temporarily controls the Vatican during the S of Vante period meanwhile at CERN scientists father silvano bentivoglio and Dr Victoria Vetra create three canisters of antimatter as Vetra goes to evaluate the experiment she discovers that silvano has been murdered and one canister stolen shortly thereafter four of the preferiti the favored candidates to be elected Pope are kidnapped by a man claiming to represent the Illuminati he sends the Vatican a warning claiming he will murder each of the Cardinals one every hour from 8 p.m. to midnight when the stolen antimatter hidden somewhere within the city will explode and destroy it due to his involvement with the prior of Scion in Paris and London American symbologist professor Sir Robert Langdon is brought to the Vatican by clao venzi to help after listening to the Assassin's threat he deduces that the four Cardinals will be murdered on the four altars of the path of Illumination in locations relevant to the classical elements McKenna gives Langdon access to the Vatican secret archives to research the altars against the wishes of Commander RoR head of the Swiss guard Langdon and Dr VRA examined in Galileo gal's Banned Book finding Clues to the first altar initially believing it to be at the pantheon they eventually Discover it to be the chiggy chapel though they rush to the chapel accompanied by Ernesto olivetti and clao venzi of the core of jund of Vatican City they are too late to save Cardinal ebna who suffocated on a mouthful of dirt and branded with the ambig grammatic word Earth following the clue left at a Bernini statue at the chiggy chapel Langdon discovers the second altar is a Bernini created sculpture in St Peter Square upon reaching it they find Cardinal Lamas mortally wounded his lungs punctured and his chest branded with the ambigram air a threatening note left on Lam's body leads Vetra to suspect that Pious 16 did not die of a stroke but was murdered with an overdose of tins Zarin which he took for his thrombol fitis this is confirmed when McKenna and Vetra secretly inspect the body in the Vatican necropolis after returning to the archives for further research Langdon olivetti and vincenzi identify the Santa Maria de la vitoria as the altar of fire where they failed to save Cardinal gadera branded with the ambigram fire from burning to death the Assassin appears and kills everyone except langon before escaping after Consulting a map of Rome Langdon identifies the final altar as patan noona's Four Rivers sculpture escorted by two Vatican police officers they find the Assassin attempting to drown Cardinal bagia who is branded with the ambigram water the officers are killed by the Assassin but Langdon aided by bystanders rescues bagia bagia tells Langdon he was held with the preferiti in Castle Sant Angelo RoR confiscates Dr silvano's journals thus convincing Vetra that he is a conspirator Langdon VRA and the police storm Castel santangelo Langdon and Vetra find the Assassin's Lair discovering the four Brands used on the Cardinals and deduce that the missing fifth is meant for m the Assassin confronts them but leaves the two unharmed he claims he was hired by men of God and warns them to be careful guided to an escape car the Assassin is killed when it explodes Langdon and VRA find a secret passageway leading to the Vatican warning the Swiss God of McKenna's fate they find RoR hovering over a branded McKenna RoR and Archbishop Simeon and alleged conspirator are killed Langdon retrieves a key from the dying RoR hand the antimatter container is found in St Peter's tomb due to detonate in 5 minutes the cold temperature has prematurely drained the battery according to Vetra the device would not have enough residual charge to keep the antimatter in suspension McKenna a former helicopter pilot seizes the canister and Pilots a helicopter into the sky parachuting out seconds before the antimatter detonates the explosion unleashes a powerful blinding shock wave throughout Vatican City but no lives are lost and the church is saved McKenna is hailed as a hero with calls for him to be elected Pope by acclamation Langdon and VRA retriev silvano's journals from R's office finding he kept tabs on the popee with hidden security cameras for medical reasons using the key Lang retrieved from RoR they discovered that McKenna was the true Mastermind behind the attacks the pope had invited silvano to publicly present the antimatter as proof of a divine power Bridging the Gap between religion and Science and potentially ending the conflict between them considering such a claim blasphemy McKenna orchestrated Pi 16's death and hired the Assassin plotting to have himself elected as Pope while making the Illuminati the scapegoat the footage is shown to the papal conclave McKenna realizing he has been exposed commits suicide via self-immolation the following morning Cardinal bagia is elected as the new pope he chooses to take the name Pope Luke an illusion to the biblical Luke being both a doctor and an apostle symbolically Bridging the Gap between science and religion the Vatican also announced is McKenna has died from injuries from his parachute Landing which leads to calls for sainthood since the people are not aware that he was The Mastermind Cardinal Strauss the Pope's new calango gives Galileo's book to Langdon as thanks for his help asking that he ensure it returns to the Vatican in his last will and testament Pope Luke gives Langdon and Vetra a thankful nod before stepping out on the balcony to greet the crowd below and give the traditional First uby at Orbee as Pope cast Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon a Harvard University professor of symbology Yan McGregor as Father Patrick McKenna the calango IET zurer as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist whose antimatter experiment has allegedly been stolen by the Illuminati stellen scarc as Commander maximilan RoR head of the Swiss God Pier Francesco favino as Inspector General Ernesto olivetti of the jeand core of Vatican City State Nikolai lias as the Assassin Armin Mueller stal as Cardinal Strauss dean of the College of Cardinals and the papal conclave thur lindhart as leftenant Chartrand officer of the Swiss guard since Angels and Demons depends on a split SE second schedule and a ticking time bomb that could destroy the Vatican it's a little distracting when the calango a priest entrusted with the Pope's duties between papies breaks into the locked Enclave of the College of Cardinals and lectures them on centuries of church history these men many of them elderly May face death in minutes which the cango knows the commander of the Swiss guard thinks he can EV Evacuate the Vatican and the hundreds of thousands of faithful waiting in St Peter Square in 15 minutes before an explosion vaporizes a big chunk of Rome but frankly we in the audience think a lot of monor back home are going to receive promotions real soon since very few plot details in the film are remotely plausible including its desperate Chase across Rome the history lesson is excusable having been told about the long war between the church and the Illuminati and religion and science we are grateful for the briefing even if the Cardinals already know most of the history this kind of film requires us to be very forgiving and if we are it promises to entertain Angels and Demons succeeds it's based on a novel that came before The DaVinci Code in Dan Browns U Professor Robert Langdon Tom Hanks is at Harvard when he is summoned from a swimming pool by an emissary from the Vatican and flown to Rome to face a crisis earlier we learned a rare sealed vial of antimatter was stolen from the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and a note taking credit comes from the Illuminati a secret society that has longed the Catholic church because of the days when it persecuted Galileo and other scientists a popular and Progressive Pope has just died the Cardinals have been summoned to elect his successor four of them the prefera the favorites to be next Pope have been kidnapped they will be executed in succession at 8 9 10 and 11: p.m. until the battery on the anti-matter vial runs out of juice at midnight and the faithful will see more than a puff of white smoke above the Vatican I don't recall if the Illuminati had any demands maybe it just one revenge in that case why hide the vial at the end of a trail that can only be followed by Clues discovered or intuited by Professor Langdon why not just blow up the place what is the purpose of the scavenger hunt has it all been laboriously constructed as a test of langdon's awesome knowledge are the Illuminati trying to get even after Langdon foiled Opus day another secret society in the D Vinci Code I don't know and reader there is no time to care Langdon uses his knowledge of Illuminati symbols to follow the trail though four Rome churches he has uncanny luck he spots and correctly identifies every clue even though they're very well hidden just as well because one dungeon overlooked or one Statue pointing the wrong way and he loses for His companion Langdon has the beautiful and brilliant Victoria Vetra AET zurer from CERN her father was murdered in the anti-matter theft her purposes a to explain that the battery will indeed run down B request her father's secret journals from Geneva although they are never read and C run along everywhere with Tom Hanks to provide him with urgent conversation meanwhile there is Intrigue within the Vatican and lots of red hair ings among all the Red Hats the young calango Yan McGregor the adopted son of the late pontiff joins the professor's desperate Quest as does the commander stellen Skarsgard of the Pope's protectors the Swiss guard inside the conclave Cardinal Strauss Armen Mueller stall is in charge of the election because of his sinister mean I love the phrase sinister mean German accent and absolutist view views on Church tradition he seems set up to be a suspect since the progressive Pope's death may have been an inside job I forgot to mention that there has also been time to exume the pontiff's remains and discover evidence of poisoning all of this happens at Breakneck speed with little subtlety but with fabulous production values the Interiors of the cistin chapel the pantheon churches tombs and crypts are rendered dramatically the College of cardinals looks both a very impressive and B like a collection of elderly extras from sinita the film by no means tilts the conflict between science and religion one way or the other the professor is not religious indeed seems agnostic but the church however is not portrayed as anti science Galileo would be happy that there is now a Vatican Observatory if the Illuminati are indeed scientists they would better employ themselves not avenging ancient Deeds but attacking modern fundamentalist Cults the professor has a fascinating exchange with the calango who asks him if he believes in God he believes he says that the existence is God is beyond his mind to determine and your heart asks the priest my heart is not worthy agnostics and Believers can both find find something to agree with there director Ron Howard does an even-handed job of balancing the scales so good indeed that even after Howard accused the Church of refusing him access to Vatican locations and although the Dependable William Donahue of the Catholic league has attacked his film Angels and Demons received a favorable review from the official Vatican newspaper Lo servator Romano which wrote it is a harmless entertainment which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity and come on Ron would you expect the church to let you shoot a Dan Brown Thriller in the sisting chapel get real one day God willing there will be a fine film made about the making of The DaVinci Code sequel it will show how an Intrepid bunch of Hollywood Fat Cats built a Blasphemous Blockbuster under the noses of the Vatican establishment how they smuggled SP eyes disguised as tourists into Rome's holy sites and pretended that they were shooting an altogether different movie called Obelisk on the streets outside until then we must make do with angels and demons the lumbering result of all that fleet-footed Ingenuity and a film so broadly supportive of the Catholic church that one wonders what all the fuss was about in the first place where The DaVinci Code ruffled the sequel sus it is a portly cash stuffed gesture at atonement Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon the Harvard symbologist with a PhD in expository dialogue a screen hero so bereft of Personality that it is all Hanks can do to make him walk and talk at the same time the dicese hates Langdon but it needs his help in the wake of the old Pope's death a clandestine science worshipping cult the Illuminati have kidnapped four Cardinals and planted a bomb in Vatican City that's bad happily the Illuminati have also posted a video that both outlines their plans in considerable detail and contains a number of cryptic clues for our hero to pour over that's good or at least goodish because it allows Langdon to go huffing and puffing from one Church to the next squeezing into secret passages and spouting off about pentagrams he's like a tour guide who's just swallowed an Enid blighton Anthology Angels and Demons is directed with a dogged dutiful persistence by Ron Howard and it co-stars eyelid zurer as a physicist and Yuan McGregor in what turns out to be film's most ambiguous role the Vatican State's fresh-faced Progressive acting head of state a sort of David Cameron of Catholicism elsewhere Armen mellery silky Cardinal steps up to explain that religion is flawed but only because men is sick flawed which seems to mirror the film's own ethos its argument is that while there are a few bad eggs in the Catholic Church the institution is well worth preserving and that science is not necessarily any better particularly when it produces antimatter devices that might blow up and kill people if the film is never quite as inert as The DaVinci Code I hesitate to call this a thriller it's big bombastic and glossy but it is also stiff and sometimes ludicrous screenwriters David coip and Thea goldsman have taken Dan Brown's Source novel written before Da Vinci but set afterwards and hotwired it with an array of stock cinematic tricks so that it lurches from Vatican archives 7:25 p.m. to Vatican Grotto 9:37 p.m. while Hanks provides his running commentary the first Cardinal wind up dead at 8 and Langdon has until midnight to decipher his Clues and crack his code after that the entire city will be consumed by a Celestial fire that Latin Scholars refer to as the great cblo and off he goes talking talking all the while the action does not quite play out in real time except that sheesh it sometimes feels that way Angels and Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film Direct directed by Ron Howard and written by AKA goldsman and David Coupe based on Dan Brown's 2000 novel of the same title it is the sequel to the 2006 film The DaVinci Code also directed by Howard and the second installment in the Robert Langdon film series however the novel version was published before The DaVinci Code novel filming took place in Rome Italy and the Sony pictur Studios in Culver City California Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon while ilet Zora stars as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist joining Langdon in the quest to recover a missing vial of antimatter from a mysterious Illuminati terrorist producer Brian graser composer Hans Zimmer and screenwriter Akiva goldsman also returned with David Coupe coming on board to help the latter the film grossed 485 9 million worldwide becoming the ninth highest grossing film of 2009 and received mixed reviews from critics who considered it an improvement over its predecessor a sequel titled Inferno was released on October 28th 2016 plot the Catholic Church Mourns the sudden death of Pope P 16th and prepares for the papal conclave to elect his successor in Vatican City Father Patrick McKenna the camareno temporarily controls the Vatican during the S of Vante period meanwhile at CERN scientists father silvano bentivoglio and Dr Victoria Vetra create three canisters of antimatter as Vetra goes to evaluate the experiment she discovers that silvano has been murdered and one canister stolen shortly there after four of the preferiti the favored candidates to be elected Pope are kidnapped by a man claiming to represent the Illuminati he sends the Vatican a warning claiming he will murder each of the Cardinals one every hour from 8:00 p.m. to midnight when the stolen antimatter hidden somewhere within the city will explode and destroy it due to his involvement with the prior of Scion in Paris and London American symbologist Professor Robert Langdon is brought to the Vatican by clao venzi to help after after listening to the Assassin's threat he deduces that the four Cardinals will be murdered on the four altars of the path of Illumination in locations relevant to the classical elements McKenna gives Langdon access to the Vatican secret archives to research the altars against the wishes of Commander RoR head of the Swiss guard Langdon and Dr VRA examined Galileo galilea's baned book Finding Clues to the first altar in initially believing it to be at the pantheon they eventually Discover it to be the chiggy chapel though they rush to the chapel accompanied by Ernesto olivetti and clao venzi of the core of jund of Vatican City they are too late to save Cardinal Ebner who suffocated on a mouthful of dirt and branded with the ambig grammatic word Earth following the clue left at a Bernini statue at the chiggy chapel Langdon discovers the second Al is a Bernini created sculpture in St Peter Square upon reaching it they find Cardinal Lamas mortally wounded his lungs punctured and his chest branded with the ambigram air a threatening note left on Lam's body leads Vetra to suspect that Pas 16 did not die of a stroke but was murdered with an overdose of tinzaparin which he took for his thrombo fitis this is confirmed when McKenna and Vetra secretly inspect the body in the Vatican necropolis after returning to the archives for further research Langdon olivetti and vincenzi identifi the Santa Maria de la voria as the alar of fire where they failed to save Cardinal gadera branded with the ambigram fire from burning to death the Assassin appears and kills everyone except Langdon before escaping after Consulting a map of Rome Langdon identifies the final altar as patan nauna's four River sculpture escorted by two Vatican police officers they find the Assassin attempting to drown Cardinal bagia who is branded with the ambigram water the officers are killed by the Assassin but Langdon aided by bystanders rescues bagia bagia tells Langdon he was held with the preferiti in Castle Sant Angelo RoR confiscates Dr silvano's journals thus convincing Vetra that he is a conspirator Langdon Vetra and the police storm Castel santangelo Langdon and Vetra find the Assassin's Lair discovering the four Brands used on the Cardinals and deduce that the missing fifth is meant for McKenna the Assassin confronts them but leaves the two unharmed he he claims he was hired by men of God and warns them to be careful guided to an escape car the Assassin is killed when it explodes Langdon and VRA find a secret passageway leading to the Vatican warning the Swiss God of McKenna's fate they find RoR hovering over a branded McKenna rtor and Archbishop Simeon and alleged conspirator are killed Langdon retrieves a key from the dying RoR hand the antimatter container is found in St Peter's tomb due to detonate in 5 minutes the cold temperature has prematurely drained the battery according to Vetra the device would not have enough residual charge to keep the antimatter in suspension McKenna a former helicopter pilot seizes the canister and Pilots a helicopter into the sky parachuting out seconds before the antimatter detonates the explosion unleashes a powerful blinding shock wave throughout Vatican City but no lives are lost and the church is saved McKenna is hailed as a hero with calls for him to be elected Pope by acclamation Langdon and VRA retriev silvano's journals from R's office finding he kept tabs on the pope with hidden security cameras for medical reasons using the key Langdon retrieved from RoR they discover that McKenna was the true Mastermind behind the attacks the pope had invited silano to publicly present the antimatter as proof of a divine power Bridging the Gap between religion and Science and potentially ending the conflict between them considering such a claim blasphemy McKenna orchestrated Pas 16's death and hired the Assassin plotting to have himself elected as Pope while making the Illuminati the scapegoat the footage is shown to the papal conclave McKenna realizing he has been exposed commits suicide via self- imulation the following morning Cardinal bagia is elected as the new pope he chooses to take the name Pope Luke an illusion to the biblical Luke being both a doctor and an apostle symbolically Bridging the Gap between science and religion the Vatican also announces McKenna has died from injuries from his parachute Landing which leads to calls for sainthood since the people are not aware that he was The Mastermind Cardinal Strauss the Pope's new calango gives Galileo's book to Langdon as thanks for his help asking that he ensure it returns to the Vatican in his last will and testament Pope Luke gives Langdon and Vetra a thankful nod before stepping out on the balcony to greet the crowd below and give the traditional First U at Orbee as Pope C Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon a Harvard University professor of symbology Yan McGregor as Father Patrick McKenna the kamango ilet zurer as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist whose antimatter experiment has allegedly been stolen by the Illuminati stellen scar scord as Commander maximilan RoR head of the Swiss guard Pier Francesco favino as Inspector General Ernesto olivetti of the jeand corps of Vatican City State Nikolai lias as the Assassin Armen Mueller stall as Cardinal Strauss dean of the College of Cardinals and the papal conclave th lindhart as liutenant Chartrand officer of the Swiss guard since Angels and Demons depends on a split second schedule and a ticking time bomb that could destroy the Vatican it's a little distracting when the calango a priest entrusted with the Pope's duties between papies breaks into the locked Enclave of the College of Cardinals and lectures them on centuries of church history these men many of them elderly May face death in minutes which the cango knows the commander of the Swiss guard thinks he can Evacuate the Vatican and the hundreds of thousands of faithful waiting in St Peter's Square in 50 minutes before an explosion vaporizes a big chunk of Rome but frankly we in the audience think a lot of monor back home are going to receive promotions real soon since very few plot details in the film are remotely plausible including its desperate Chase across Rome the history lesson is excusable having been told about the long war between the church and the Illuminati and religion and science we are grateful for the briefing even if the card Cals already know most of the history this kind of film requires us to be very forgiving and if we are it promises to entertain Angels and Demons succeeds it's based on a novel that came before The DaVinci Code in Dan Brown's U Professor Robert Langdon Tom Hanks is at Harvard when he is summoned from a swimming pool by an emissary from the Vatican and flown to Rome to face a crisis earlier we learned a rare sealed vial of antimatter was stolen from the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and a note-taking credit comes from the Illuminati a secret society that has long hated the Catholic church because of the days when it persecuted Galileo and other scientists a popular and Progressive Pope has just died the Cardinals have been summoned to elect his successor four of them the prefera the favorites to be next Pope have been kidnapped they will be executed in succession at 8 9 10 and 11: p.m. until the battery on the antimatter vial runs out of juice at midnight and the faithful will see more than a puff of white smoke above the Vatican I don't recall if the Illuminati had any demands maybe it just wants revenge in that case why hide the vial at the end of a trail that can only be followed by Clues discovered or intuited by Professor Langdon why not just blow up the place what is the purpose of the scavenger hunt has it all been laboriously constructed as a test of langdon's awesome knowledge are the Illuminati trying to get even after Langdon foiled opa's day another secret society in the D Vinci Code I don't know and reader there is no time to care langon uses his knowledge of Illuminati symbols to follow the trail though four Rome churches he has uncanny luck he spots and correctly identifies every clue even though they're very well hidden just as well because one dungeon overlooked or one Statue pointing the wrong way and he loses for His companion Langdon has the beautiful and Brilliant Victoria Vetra IET zurer from CERN her father was murdered in the anti-matter theft her purpose is a to explain that the battery will indeed run down B request her father's secret journals from Geneva although they are never read and C run along everywhere with Tom Hanks to provide him with urgent conversation meanwhile there is Intrigue within the Vatican and lots of red herrings among all the Red Hats the young calango Yan McGregor the the adopted son of the late pontiff joins the professor's desperate Quest as does the commander stellen Skarsgard of the Pope's protectors the Swiss guard inside the conclave Cardinal Strauss Armin Muer stall is in charge of the election because of his sinister mean I love the phrase sinister mean German accent and absolutist views on Church tradition he seems set up to be a suspect since the progressive Pope's death may have been an inside job I forgot to mention that there has also been time to exume the pontiff's remains and discover evidence of poisoning all of this happens at Breakneck speed with little subtlety but with fabulous production values the Interiors of the cistin chapel the pantheon churches tombs and crypts are rendered dramatically the College of cardinals looks both a very impressive and be like a collection of elderly extras from sinita the film by no means tilts the conflict between science and religion one way or the other the professor is not religious indeed seems agnostic but the church however is not portrayed as anti-science Galileo would be happy that there is now a Vatican Observatory if the Illuminati are indeed scientists they would better employ themselves not avenging an icient Deeds but attacking modern fundamentalist Cults the professor has a fascinating exchange with the calango who asks him if he believes in God he believes he says that the existence is God is beyond his mind to determine and your heart asks the priest my heart is not worthy agnostics and Believers can both find something to agree with there director Ron Howard does an even-handed job of balancing the scales so good indeed that even after Howard accused the Church of refusing him access to Vatican locations and although the Dependable William Donahue of the Catholic league has attacked his film Angels and Demons received a favorable review from the official Vatican newspaper Lo servator Romano which wrote it is a harmless entertainment which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity and come on Ron would you expect the church to let you shoot a Dan Brown Thriller in the cistin chapel get real one day God willing there will be a fine film made about the making of The DaVinci Code sequel it will show how an Intrepid bunch of Hollywood Fat Cats built a Blasphemous Blockbuster under the noses of the Vatican establishment how they smuggled spies disguised as tourists into Rome's holy sites and pretended that they were shooting an alter together different movie called Obelisk on the streets outside until then we must make do with angels and demons the lumbering result of all that fleet-footed Ingenuity and a film so broadly supportive of the Catholic church that one wonders what all the fuss was about in the first place where The DaVinci Code ruffled the sequel sooths it is a portly cash stuffed gesture at atonement Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon the Harvard symbologist with a PhD in expository dialogue a screen hero so bereft of Personality that it is all Hanks can do to make him walk and talk at the same time the dicese hates Langdon but it needs his help in the wake of the old Pope's death a clandestine science worshipping cult the Illuminati have kidnapped four Cardinals and planted a bomb in Vatican City that's bad happily the Illuminati have also posted a video that both outlines their plans in considerable detail and contains a number of cryptic clues for our hero to pour over that's good or at least goodish because it allows Langdon to go huffing and puffing from one Church to the next squeezing into secret passages and spouting off about pentagrams he's like a tour guide who's just swallowed an Enid blighton Anthology Angels and Demons is directed with a dogged dutiful persistence by Ron Howard and it co-stars iset zurer as a physicist and Yan McGregor in what turns out to be film's most ambiguous role the Vatican State's fresh-faced Progressive acting head of state a sort of David Cameron of Catholicism elsewhere Armen Mall's silky Cardinal steps up to explain that religion is flawed but only because men is sick flawed which seems to mirror the film's own ethos its argument is that while there are a few bad eggs in the Catholic Church the institution is well worth preserving and that science is not necessarily any better particularly when it produces antimatter devices that might blow up and kill people if the film is never quite as inert as The DaVinci Code I hesitate to call this a thriller it's big bombastic and glossy but it is also stiff and sometimes ludicrous screenwriters David coip and Thea goldsman have taken Dan Brown's Source novel written before Da Vinci but set afterwards and hotwired it with an array of stock cinematic tricks so that it lurches from Vatican archives 7:25 p.m. to Vatican Grotto 9:37 p.m. while Hanks provides his running commentary the first Cardinal winds up dead at 8 and Langdon has until midnight to decipher his Clues and crack his code after that the entire city will be consumed by a Celestial fire that Latin Scholars refer to as the great cblo and off he goes talking talking all the while the action does not quite play out in real time except that shees it sometimes feels that way Angels and Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by AKA goldsman and David Coupe based on Dan Brown's 2000 novel of the same title it is the sequel to the 2006 film The DaVinci Code also directed by Howard and the second installment in the Robert Langdon film series however the novel version was published before The DaVinci Code novel filming took place in Rome Italy and the Sony Pictures studios in Cala City California Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon while ilet zura stars as Dr Victoria Vetra a CERN scientist joining Langdon in the quest to recover a missing vial of antimatter from a mysterious Illuminati terrorist producer Brian graser composer Hans Zimmer and screenwriter Akiva goldsman also returned with David Coupe coming on board to help the latter the film grossed 4859 million worldwide becoming the ninth highest grossing film of 2009 and received mixed reviews from critics who considered it an improvement over its predecessor a sequel titled Inferno was released on October 28th 2016 plot the Catholic Church Mourns the sudden death of Pope P 16th and prepares for the papal conclave to elect his successor in Vatican City Father Patrick McKenna the camareno temporarily controls the Vatican during the S of Vante period meanwhile at CERN scientists father silvano bentivoglio and Dr Victoria Vetra create three canisters of antimatter as Vetra goes to evaluate the experiment she discovers that silvano has been murdered and one canister stolen shortly thereafter four of the preferiti the favored candidates to be elected Pope are kidnapped by a man claiming to represent the Illuminati he sends the Vatican a warning claiming he will murder each of the Cardinals one every hour from 8:00 p.m. to midnight when the stolen antimatter hidden somewhere within the city will explode and destroy it due to his involvement with the prior of Sion in Paris and London American symbologist Professor Robert Langdon is brought to the Vatican by claudo venzi to help after listening to the Assassin's threat he deduces that the four Cardinals will be murdered on the four altars of the path of Illumination in locations relevant to the classical elements McKenna gives langden access to the Vatican secret archives to research the altars against the wishes of Commander RoR head of the Swiss guard Langdon and Dr VRA examin Galileo galilea's Banned Book finding Clues to the first altar initially believing it to be at the pantheon they eventually Discover it to be the chiggy chapel though they rushed to the chapel accompanied by Ernesto olivetti and claudo venzi of the core of jund of Vatican City they are too late to save Cardinal Ebner who suffocated on a mouthful of dirt and branded with the ambig grammatic word Earth following the clue left at a Bernini statue at the chiggy chapel langon discovers the second altar is a Bernini created sculpture in St Peter Square upon reaching it the they find Cardinal Lamas mortally wounded his lungs punctured and his chest branded with the ambigram air a threatening note left on Lam's body leads Vetra to suspect that Pas 16 did not die of a stroke but was murdered with an overdose of tinzaparin which he took for his thrombol fitis this is confirmed when McKenna and Vetra secretly inspect the body in the Vatican necropolis after returning to the archives for further research Langdon olivetti and vincenzi identified the s