- Details: 2009, USA, Cert 12A, 138 minsDirection:Ron HowardGenre:Crime / Drama / ThrillerSummary: The murder of a physicist draws symbologist Robert Langdon in to investigate a secret brotherhoodWith: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ayelet Zurer, Cosimo Fusco, David Pasquesi, Ewan McGregor, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Pierfrancesco Favino, Stellan Skarsgard and Tom Hanks
David Cox: The Da Vinci Code follow-up is set to fuel the belief that. Angels and Demons movie has a 'modest quality' redeemed by Tom Hanks, says. The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It follows 'symbologist' Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the.
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Philip French
The movie has its sacramental wafer and swallows it, thus delivering a controversial story that offends no one, writes Philip FrenchXan Brooks
A big, bombastic and ludicrous follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, says Xan BrooksXan Brooks
The film follow-up to The Da Vinci Code is unwieldy, elephantine and frequently foolish, but disrespectful of the Catholic church it is not, writes Xan Brooks
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Rob Mackie
There's an enormous amount of exposition to be waded through as Hanks must Âexplain everything to the Vatican Âfaithful and sidekick Ayelet Zurer, finds Rob Mackie
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- Audio(37min 33sec),The team untangles the unholy mess of Catholicism and physics in the new film starring Tom Hanks. Could antimatter really be used to blow up the Vatican?
- At least Angels & Demons, with its Vatican plot, makes a dent in Hollywood's parochialism. Usually, the rest of the world gets short shrift, says Anne Billson
- Angels and Demons movie has a 'modest quality' redeemed by Tom Hanks, says L'Osservatore Romano
- In Angels & Demons, one-eighth of a gram of antimatter is stolen from Cern in Switzerland by terrorists intent on using it to blow up the Vatican. Could such a plan actually work? David Cox investigates
- Gallery (11 pictures),5 May 2009: Rome played host last night to the world premiere of the latest Dan Brown movie, Angels & Demons. All the stars were there and some other people too. Captions by Paul MacInnes
- Cameramen posing as tourists shot more than 250,000 photographs and hours of video, used by producers of Da Vinci Code prequel to get around ban on filming in Rome's churches
- Catherine Shoard: The Da Vinci Code director sunk a lot of time and cash into defying the Vatican's filming ban. He could have just set the film in a more obscure but vastly more cinematic location, like the Berwick-upon-Tweed caravan park
- Studio plans film of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol even before Angels and Demons adaptation is released
- Catholics around the world could be urged to shun the Da Vinci Code prequel, which was banned from filming in the Holy See last summer
- Having campaigned against the original Dan Brown adaptation, The Catholic League will repeat their efforts for its prequel, Angels and Demons
- It's the sequel to The Da Vinci Code film, though it's really a prequel. And if that doesn't put your brain in a spin, don't worry, there's plenty more where that came from
- Video(3min 00sec),Da Vinci Code symbologist Robert Langdon returns to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican
- Catholic church bans the use of Rome's churches for the filming of follow-up