This film is an example of profound imagination and hard work.

Rating: 7/10 (11 June 2012)

This film is an example of profound imagination and hard work. Now almost all the imagination job has already been done by the author Dan brown whereas I am referring to the hard work done by the special effects personals. This movie could not have been possible without the visual effects that it shows. Thus by such conditions the real work of the director is narrowed down. He has just to assemble a cast and work on the plot.
If I go on with the story than it would feel as if I am rating the book itself. And the ingenuity of the writer is clearly visible in the story. We are drawn again towards the ancient crypts and the fight of good against evil. The church had tried to hamper the scientific endeavors in the medieval age and now a secret scientific group wants to take retribution. They steal an antimatter capsule from the laboratory of CERN and try to implode the whole Vatican down with its cataclysmic power. As the story unfolds the various layers of corruption unveil themselves. The thrill is never ending and there is always a Shyamalan kind of twist waiting for us in the storyline. It was really exhilarating to watch. Tom hanks as professor Langdon tracks down the ancient crypts and takes us to new secrets. Art direction is superb and I wouldn't have thought a journey of Vatican like this in my life. Even the minute details are explicitly shown.
Tom hanks does a nice acting job. We know that he can play his parts really well and in this movie, his role was not even challenging. Evan McGregor plays the camerlengo to the pope and his acting is also laudable.
My favorite scene is when the antimatter blasts a thousand feet above the Vatican. The sky turns into a glorious nebula and for the audiences down on earth it would have surely looked like a godly work. There is a high level of depth in which this scene is shown. You can't figure out that these scenes were really created on computer. Gracious and highly inspiring.
Direction – 65 Acting/ Casting – 75 Cinematography/photography -95 Musical score –60 Screenplay- 85