Still a good Dan Brown styled thriller, yet it lacks weight on the major theme

Rating: 7/10 (22 September 2014)

Again as with Da Vinci Code, the story looked like it's taken straight from the Dan Brown novel considering Langdon is always explaining things much like a walking encyclopedia. The thriller aspect improved in this movie compared to Da Vinci Code as it feels that the suspense is kept at almost all the duration of the movie by using the fast paced story flow and the many speeding car and running people scenes. Although this means less action part compared to Da Vinci Code, this also means that the story is being brought to its originally designed genre of thriller. Yet it's quite regrettable that the subject of the main theme, the Illuminati, feels lacking in comparison of Da Vinci Code's main plot. Tom Hanks' role as the intelligent yet faithless scholar is a straight continuance from his role in Da Vinci Code. Ewan McGregor can play the character with the hidden agenda very well; his character will turn out very nice especially to those previously oblivious to the story through the book. Stellan Skarsgaard also bring out nice color to this movie.