Angels and Demons

For those of you who are excited to see Angels and Demons, I would avoid reading the paper or browsing on the web. Not particularly interested in seeing the movie, I broke my usual rule of reading a few reviews and have been quite entertained.

The pope has died. Even as the Vatican is in the process of selecting a new pope, a group of ancient scientists, the Illuminati, kidnap the four top candidates and threaten to kill one each hour. They also steal an antimatter bomb from the supercollider in Sweden and plan to blow up the entire Vatican. "Rather than call the police..." – a phrase that I read in every review – they fly 3,000 miles to the U.S. to recruit Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the very guy that threatened to destroy Christianity in the DaVinci Code by uncovering the secrets of Opus Dei. Makes sense (sic). As reviewed on Ain't it Cool, "Angels and Demons is like Batman and Robin, except that Batman is played by Tom Hanks." Ouch.

NPR review. Bob Mondello

Aint it Cool review. Massawyrm

Roger Ebert.

So the lesson here, folks, is if four of your cardinals are kidnapped and an antimatter device is about to go off somewhere in the city, call the police. Or a superhero. Guess I'll go see Star Trek a second time. Oh wait, I was planning on doing that anyway!