Such a boring comedy !

Rating: 4/10 (16 March 2012)

This is a thriller? No. This "was" a thriller, because by the way it was handled; it turned into a comedy. Look how things run: Tom Hanks alludes to a statue, knits his brows, then uncovers the whereabouts of the next murder, and maybe the killer's shoe size too! To tell you the truth, I believed that his character can look at your ears, and know what the last things you've heard were! Well, this is provocative. And with repeating it, for more than 10 times along the way, then it is more provocative. And with adding so serious music, running camera, and snappy cutting; it becomes perfectly a comedy. Originally, if the criminal is so smart, why in God's name he leaves all of these clues for Hanks to discover?? Why doing it the old-fashioned way?? The answer: so author Dan Brown finds a material to write, and movie star Hanks finds a movie to star!
The dialogue is overcrowded with the most sophisticated information ever said by an actor in a mainstream Hollywood movie since Star Wars! It made me laugh, especially when the writers went to apportion the information on Hanks and his partner to throw them as quickly as they could, so nobody would understand anything! Then, that female partner. Firstly, WHY THERE MUST BE A FEMALE PARTNER??! Secondly, she happens to know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING!!! At first, I presumed that she has knowledge in terms of the atom technology, but OH MY GOD, she proved later that she was a scientist in arts, history, code breaking, security, forensic medicine and unlocking the closed desks!!
The science fiction of finding the origin of creation was shown as a laughable mambo Jambo. There is a bomb threat, however a million men and women is determined on staying in the very threatened place to know the name of the new pope?? The character of the relentless hired killer is totally copied from the first movie, he's just talking good English this time! The Vatican papal foundation behaves at the end like an Italian mafia family?!! Hanks character acts flawlessly, as if he's Superman without the costumes and the fear of kryptonite as well! I bet that you thought for all the time how Hanks was in the wrong place; simply he's a fine actor, and according to the no character that he plays, you have to feel awful irony, since he does nothing but running and running and running (he didn't have any comic one-liner either!). Why he wasn't written as say a claustrophobic guy; that could have made the closed library scene more interesting, and made the character a bit vulnerable for God's sake! And ladies and gentleman, the genius plot twist was too clear from the first minute; so who they were kidding??! I saw the truth about Ewan McGregor's character coming from 7000 miles away, otherwise why to cast a star for that character?!
The only respectable "thriller" part remains in the last 10 minutes; not for the scene where we watch the first Camerlengo James Bond, but for not having any statue that speaks to Hanks! So according to what really works in this movie; it is a comedy, yet the laughs were far in between, therefore it lost the pace; which labels any comedy as boring, and hence bad. Now, after seeing the 2 installments, if you ask me which is better; (The Da Vinci Code) or (Angels & Demons)?, I must go for (Plan 9 from Outer Space)!