Angels & Demons

Venue - Cineleisure

If you feel like lately most the movies on showing aren’t enough to fill your intellectual mind and satisfy your curiosity, well look no further as we have the latest installment from the Dan Brown franchise of ever epic religious treasure hunts entitled Angels and Demons. Will this be enough to pull in the crowd and leave fans of the book thirsty for more?

Big Holes equal Bad News

"Despite his notorious relationship with the Church, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is once again called upon to decipher the clues to a catastrophic conspiracy. The Pope has died, and before conclave can begin to determine his successor, the four preferitti (primary hopefuls for the papacy) are kidnapped. An ominous threat of their hourly demise, along with the complete annihilation of Vatican City, is issued as an elaborate revenge scheme for a persecuted group known as the Illuminati. With their meager time limit steadily counting down, Langdon, accompanied by beautiful physicist Vittoria Vetra, must travel throughout Rome to unravel the carefully hidden signs that will lead them to a terrifying adversary, a harrowing discovery, and the shocking truth." - IMBD

If in doubt send the girl in first

I’d have to say that I actually enjoyed this film. It was like a big puzzle which had action, suspense and drama all bundled into one. The flow of the movie had a bit of a Die Hard feel to it, in a sense that there was a time factor to consider. He had to try to solve each of the following to save the Cardinals. This setting gave it more of an edge which would really keep you on the edge of your seat. Unfortunately I’ve never read the book so I don’t really have anything to compare it with, but I definitely felt more interested in this one compared to Da Vinci Code (which was a bit overrated).

Obi Wan as Ewan McGregor

Storyline was good and the scenes or puzzles weren’t too over complicated that needed too long of an explanation, which I think was rampant in the Da Vinci Code. It’s probably a bit more light hearted and much easily acceptable which will probably be a lot more appealing to those who don’t really follow the franchise. If you’re looking for a night out or quite possibly going on a date, then this movie is for you. Should be able to impress your date with such interesting topics such as “I like this but the book explained a lot more” or “This beats Wolverine!” So finally the first thumbs up from me in quite a while.

Ratings – 3.7/5