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ANGELS & DEMONS

ANGELS & DEMONS is the precursor to Dan Browns Da Vinci Code and has Tom Hanks again under the direction of Ron Howard but mercifully mullet free reprising his role as super symbologist Robert Langdon. Where the Da Vinci Code got bogged down in over explanations, this time Howard gets it right. Here anti matter is a long way off from propelling the Enterprise to warp speed but in a subterranean European cyclotron it gets manufactured in heretofore unheard of quantities thanks to the work of the hot (for a physicist) Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer). Although minute it is so volatile it could take out a small European state which is exactly what a radical and ancient group of technocrats known as Illuminati plan to do to the Vatican as a way of humiliating the Catholic Church at its most vulnerable. The pope has died and the college of cardinals is sequestered to elect a new pontiff and the Illuminati have kidnapped their prime candidates and plan to brutally sacrifice them as a build up to wiping out Vatican City. Camerlengo Patrick McKenna (Ewan McGregor) is the past Pope’s right hand man and needs to take action which is why Langford is called in. Adding to the tension and intrigue is the ever sinister yet immutably soft spoken Armin Mueller-Stahl as Cardinal Strauss who is constantly admonishing the young Camerlengo while appearing to have a Papal agenda of his own. Intense action against the splendour of that warehouse of glorious gems from antiquity known as the Vatican makes Angels and Demons a heavenly mix of hell bent action but without the controversy that stoked the media frenzy over the DaVinci Code it may not ascend to the top of the box office.

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