indiana langdon

Rating: 1/10 (25 May 2009)

WARNING IT CONTAINS SPOILERS!
WARNING: contains SPOILERS and inflammatory content against 1) the Vatican and the catholic church and the pope 2) Rome (the city of) 3) the movie itself 4) the carabinieri
if you hold a grudge, as I do, amongst the other, against the 4 entities above, you might be mislead to believe that this movie is for you. yes it's true that you might enjoy, if you're inclined so, a mysterious killer (what is he? the devil? or A devil?) the death of some high ranking priests and a couple of carabinieri. and the threat to wipe out the whole of Rome (so that we can finally build a massive shopping center and underground park in lieu of).
alas the good writers, producers and the good Ron Howard have delivered the usual happy ending blockbuster. and if you are a fan of the previous installment and of professor langdon as a detective of signs and historian, forget about it, because here the decision has been made to make good old tom, still full of stamina and in perfect physical form, into a sort of indiana jones "de Roma". yes, in fact, to set the tone, the good professor makes his first appearance in the movie not giving a talk on symbols, but swimming rather effectively on a university swimming pool.
obviously nothing prepares the audience for the chopper scene (*), followed by the chute scene, followed by the supernova scene; at that point while Ron might think that he is going to surprise us further, he doesn't realize that it's enough to think of what would be the next most obvious and stupid thing to guess what's going to happen.
if you're wise, take my advise: save the money and do something else..
(*) not entirely true; in fact the Irish priest had mentioned earlier, en passant, that he had been in the air forces (which ones? the Italian ones? is he supposed to be Italian? with that accent?) as a pilot (never thought there could be a pope who had been in the air force).