A mediocre sequel

Rating: 4/10 (2 November 2016)

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard return to another adaption of Dan Brown's thriller Angels & Demons. The book is the first of Robert Langdon's adventures but came out as a sequel to the box office success of The Da Vinci Code though the chronology isn't exactly clear from my viewing of which comes first. I had the time to just read this novel as I started the series when I heard of the recent adaptation so I can compare more directly with the text. The movie skips of interactions in CERN and the murder investigation and jumps directly to the terroristic plot that can only be stopped by Langdon's solving of the clues.
Hanks's Langdon teams up with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) to find the anti-matter that Vetra help create with her uncle? before it blow up the Vatican as part of an Illuminati plot. Working with the Vatican police headed by Commander Richter (Stellan Skarsgard) and assisted by Inspector Olivetti (Pierfrancesco Favino), Langdon and Vetra achieve access to the Vatican archives but only after being granted permission by the Camerlengo Patrick Mckenna (Ewan McGregor).
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