Mixed reactions! A&D had some good stuff indeed!

Rating: 8/10 (12 June 2009)

Let me put a perspective on the movie from a non dan brown reader standpoint.
A&D starts with Pope's demise and a series of mishappenings calling for Langdon's entry to demystify the mishappenings and save the Vatican from catastrophe of Antimatter annihilation suspectedly stolen from CERN.
No prizes for guessing, Langdon saves the Vatican single handedly by solving all the clues leading towards unearthing the biggest scam in Vatican history.
The best part of movie which gave me goosebumps sitting in theater was the breathtaking cinematography. Ron howard's work at its best in capturing the pristine beauty and splendor of various basilica, chapels etc of Rome, Vatican. Story was indeed highly predictable, a racy Hollywood thriller, the movie was very well tightly held but the plot could have been a bit deeper and real.
Like the most stupid scenes being one single assassin killing entire group of police officials to execute entire plan on his own. And then after battering every thing that moves, he lets away hanks and zurer quoting stupid reason like you are not carrying weapon so i wont kill you etc.
Nevertheless with all the flaws this movie had, i felt in the end, the climax came about to be extremely gripping when you felt movie was about to end and I was about to leave theater after Mckenna was about to selected pope and then twist comes in and langdon again comes to the rescue was very interesting.
Overall, there could have been improvements in the film as standards set by ron after giving us legendary films like Beautiful mind (probably the best films ever made and most underrated) and Cindrella Man (another underrated but awe inspiring movie) suggest. But overall the movie was good and i liked it and am gonna think of it for next week or so. 8/10