It keeps moving, if nothing else

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2009)

Adapted from Dan Brown's novel of the same name, this one has Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) racing around Vatican City and Rome to stop a series of murders and find a bomb that could destroy Vatican City. The pope has just died, and Langdon gets called in when things don't seem exactly right. A nutcase has stolen enough antimatter from a lab to raze Vatican City and plans to kill one cardinal each hour until the explosion. Langdon and the cops chase here and there, trying to get ahead of the killer. While the killer claims to be a member of the Illuminati, Langdon knows this is a cover for someone else. Perhaps someone inside. Meanwhile, the cardinals have gathered to name a new pope. Fast-paced, although Hanks is a little long in the tooth to be playing Langdon, especially as the events here are supposed to precede the events portrayed in THE DA VINCI CODE. Not as good as the first Nic Cage NATIONAL TREASURER flick or even those Noah Hathaway LIBRARIAN flicks, but it makes a decent time killer.