Tom Hanks is back as reprises his role as the Harvard Symbolist Robert Langdon. This time Langdon has been called in to help the Catholic Church. The movie starts off inside CERN (big bang machine) where anti matter has just been created, this anti matter is being called the ‘God’ Particle so naturally the church isn’t going to like this. So when terrorists brake into the CERN’s facility and plan to use this antimatter to blow up the Vatican City the Vatican reluctantly ask for Robert Langdon’s help to stop the terrorists on time.
These terrorists are later to be found out to be a group called the ‘Illuminati’ one of the churches biggest enemy apart from science that is. The Illuminati plan to explode this god particle on the same day that the College of Cardinals meet up and have a cup of tea and also select a new pope.
Angels and Demons then becomes a race against the clock for Robert Langdon as he races around the Vatican City solving puzzles and even going on site seeing tours to find the god particle before it explodes and takes all the College of Cardinals with it. Even though Angels and Demons is a long movie it never feels boring or slow at any point and there’s always something on screen that will keep you as the viewer interested.
Some people may complain the characters in this movie are wafer thin and I’m not going to dispute that, however we are watching a movie about a man trying to stop a bomb from wiping out an entire city, obviously there’s not going to be a lot of character development as if this was a real story I can imagine the person would be running around like a headless chicken trying to find the bomb rather than taking time to explain how to get to the next point to uncover the next clue. Others may also complain that the book was better, well maybe it was I’ve never read it but unlike the book this movie will only take a couple of hours to watch.
Angels and Demons is worth watching but just don’t expect something spectacular because it’s not, it his however an escape from reality where science and religion go head to head and the story that comes out of it is pretty interesting. I enjoyed angels and demons and give it a religiously solid 3 out of 5 stars.