Now in Theaters: “Angels and Demons”

Angels and Demons hits theaters today and goes head-to-head with Star Trek in its second week at the box office.  Just from the trailer and the production stills, I can already tell this is a better movie than the first movie The DaVinci Code.  Why?  Because Tom Hanks has gotten rid of that embarrassing mid-life crisis looking mullet.  I swear, I was embarrassed for him.

Let’s get something out of the way right away, shall we?  The first movie was a little self-indulgent and I’m praying  that they learned from that mistake and corrected their approach when creating this film.  I liked the storyline but something (a lot of things) were just a little off for me.

Another thing to mention is that, as you could probably tell from the title, people who don’t like movies about religion are probably not going to want to see it (plus, I can tell from the soundtrack that it will likely be pretty creepy).

Robert Langdon (Hanks), a Harvard symbolist, is called in when physicist, Leonardo Vetra, is murdered.  Robert meets up with Vetra’s daughter, Vittoria and their quest to find the truth, leaves them searching for clues around the Vatican.  When they learn that an assassin working for the Illuminati (a secret brotherhood) has captured and killed four cardinals, Robert and Vittoria realize that they are not only looking for her father’s murdered but also a new, very destructive weapon that could kill millions.

I don’t know to what extent Angels and Demons relates to The DaVinci Code since I don’t want to ruin the movie for myself but it’s clear that there is a similar theme going on.  Check out this great little sneak peek of the film with director, Ron Howard.

images: Columbia Pictures