Pretty good, nothing outta the ordinary thriller.

Rating: 6/10 (23 May 2009)

You go into this already familiar w/ the first movie, that or the book. I thought it was a decent, fast moving thriller, w/ odd overtones of a James Bond Villain Plot(TM) in it-an antimatter bomb?! in the Vatican-REALLY?-that works on the intended level just fine.
The cast-all are in standard forms here-Starsgard, Hanks, MacGregor, etc-you won't nec. believe they're who they're playing-but they pull off the roles as well's can be expected. It's a superficially written screenplay that emphasizes the settings-cathedrals, Vatican city, Rome, etc over characterization, suspense and following the clues over anything resembling a realistic plot.
I thought they were respectful of the church as far's they needed to be, and really the Vatican has nothing to fear from movies like this. Sheer entertainment, nothing else.
You can spot the baddie semi-easily despite a couple red-herrings, you also could use more info about the main killer I suppose as to what makes him tick. But whatever-they're just devices in the plot nothing more *** outta ****, you'll get what you came to see nothing more.