kinda sucks

Rating: 4/10 (14 May 2009)

maybe if i hadn't seen star trek last week this film might have been better. but then again, it's not as good as the da vinci code anyway. well, it's actually pretty much the same movie as the da vinci code but since we've already seen that one, this one seems just a little flat.
it's basically tom hanks running around rome looking for ancient symbols leading him on a path to other symbols that point him in other directions. and if you saw da vinci, then you can take out the knights of the templar and replace them with the illuminati and you have angels and demons.
angels and demons was the first of the two books by dan brown made into movies yet in this film angels is set up as a sequel. which is no big deal. but some key elements from the book are simply left out. for what reason, i do not know. it's in this book that professor langdon has a serious romantic interest in his female lead. but there is none of that in the film. there was more of a relationship for him in the da vinci code.
all in all, it's still a pretty good film. like i said, if i hadn't seen star trek last week this might be a better movie to me. but star trek just blows everything out of the water so far this summer. it's not even close.
the history and things like that just don't seem as interesting to me this time around. meaning, the da vinci code was just way better. sorry ron howard, you just missed on this one a little bit. i'm sure you'll still make a hundred million bucks, but maybe not.
one of the things that makes da vinci a better film is there is a compelling villain in the albino. but there is none such in angels and demons. the pieces to the puzzles just don't seem to fit as well in this one as in the last film. and it's a shame. it's a pretty good story, they just missed a little.
two dead catholic popes out of five.