The pope must diet

Rating: 3/10 (24 August 2018)

I wonder if Dan Brown does walking tours of various cities and then armed with a guidebook constructs his novels.
Angels & Demons is a race against time to find four captured cardinals somewhere in Rome soon after the pope has died. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is hired by the Catholic Church to find them. He is assisted by scientist Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) who worked on the CERN project in Geneva, where the anti matter device from the supercollider is stolen.
The secret society, Illuminati are thought to be responsible of the threats to kill the cardinal for the church's historical anti science stance.
Langdon runs, goes to famous landmarks such as the Pantheon which is curiously absent of many tourists, evades an assassin and explains the clues to the audience.
The film is bafflingly entertaining for all the wrong reasons, the plot is just plain daft. It makes little sense. A helicopter suddenly appearing just in time for an important plot point, it shows how vacuous this movie is. Then again Oscar winning hack Akiva Goldsman is one of the writers so expectations are automatically lowered.