Angels & Demons

Angels and Demons re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's novel -The Da Vinci Code. Although the book -Angels and Demons was written before the novel -The Da Vinci Code, the movie transpires after the events of the ...more

In Angels and Demons, Rome is about to burn. Well, not really, but it might "be consumed by light." That light comes courtesy of rogue religious sect the Illuminati—the scourge of the Vatican. Instead of Nero playing the fiddle, Angels has Tom Hanks playing Dan Brown's Harvard professor Robert Langdon in a prequel to The Da Vinci Code, a movie that’s more engaging and enthralling than its predecessor. Hanks brings Langdon off the page, playing up the character’s clever charisma and wit—the ...more

After Ron Howard's 2006 adaptation of the hysterically popular beach-read -The Da Vinci Code turned out to be disappointingly stuffy at best (especially for a book so tawdry and fun that it should have been a movie in the first place), you'd think he would have learned his lesson. Sadly, 2009's Angels & Demons isn't executed with any more attention to excitement than its predecessor -- though it does include more cheap thrills in general, simply by virtue of the script (based on a Da Vinci Code ...more