Angels & Demons (Single-Disc Theatrical Edition)
by Ron Howard
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Actor: Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Pierfrancesco Favino, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom HanksDirector: Ron Howard
Brand: Son
Producer: Anna Culp
Producer: Brian Grazer
Producer: Dan Brown
Writer: Dan Brown
Producer: John Calley
Writer: Akiva Goldsman
Writer: David Koepp
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
Published: 2009-11-01
DVD Release Date: 2009-11-24
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Angels & Demons (Single-Disc Theatrical Edition)
Movie Review: Angels and Demons
Summary: 5 Stars
Angels and Demons - Columbia Pictures
Dan Brown is flying high these days. His novels are hot property in Hollywood, even before they are written. But, the fact is that the man can indeed produce great suspense literature - if it qualifies for that --, the one that can translate well into films, such as his incredibly popular "The Da Vinci Code." "Angels and Demons," I am happy to say, follows that tradition. It delivers great, smart entertainment, the one that you go to the movies for.
The film starts at the Vatican, just when it is announced that the Pope has just died. Simultaneously, we are transported to a laboratory known as the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland, where scientists are about to successfully launch an important experiment which will generate antimatter. Unfortunately, once the antimatter is produced, one of the scientists handling this valuable product is assassinated and the antimatter is stolen. Enter Harvard's Prof. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a renowned authority of symbols. He is informed by a Vatican cop that four priests - the apparent finalists to replace the Pope -- were kidnapped and that the Vatican's police was requesting his help, because the kidnapper(s) left a symbol of the Illuminati at the scenes of the crimes. Once in the Vatican, Langdom teams up with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), an Italian physicist who was working with the antimatter experiments at the time it was stolen. They will try to put the puzzle that ties the antimatter and the Illuminati together. By doing so, they will realize, the hard way, that this is a dangerous game, in which science collides with religion and the Vatican's internal politics..
Some fans of Dan Brown's novels have criticized the adaptations of his work to the big screen -- "Angels and Demons" not being the exception --, and they may have a point. That's the danger of reading a book and expecting too much from Hollywood. However, having not read the book, I found this film to be highly provocative and intriguing, and I truly enjoyed it. In fact, I can't wait to see the installment of Brown's next book, "The Lost Symbol." I just hope that Hanks returns as Langdon and Ron Howard as its director. The formidable cast includes Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. The DVD is loaded with extras, such as the mini documentaries "Rome was not built in a day," "Writing Angles and Demons," "Characters in search of the True Story," and more. (USA, 2009, color, 138 min plus additional material).
Reviewed by Eric Gonzalez on November 23, 2009 for [...]
Summary of Angels & Demons (Single-Disc Theatrical Edition)
No description available for this title.Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG13
Street Date: 11/24/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
If the devil is in the details, there's a lot of wicked fun in Angels & Demons, the sequel (originally a prequel) to The Da Vinci Code. Director Ron Howard delivers edge-of-your-pew thrills all over the Vatican, the City of Rome, and the deepest, dankest catacombs. Tom Hanks is dependably watchable in his reprised role as Professor Robert Langdon, summoned urgently to Rome on a matter of utmost urgency--which happens to coincide with the death of the Pope, meaning the Vatican is teeming with cardinals and Rome is teeming with the faithful. A religious offshoot group, calling themselves the Illuminati, which protested the Catholic Church's prosecution of scientists 400 years ago, has resurfaced and is making extreme, and gruesome, terrorist demands. The film zooms around the city, as Langdon follows clues embedded in art, architecture, and the very bone structure of the Vatican. The cast is terrific, including Ewan McGregor, who is memorable as a young protégé of the late pontiff, and who seems to challenge the common wisdom of the Conclave just by being 40 years younger than his fellows when he lectures for church reform. Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a gruff commander of the Swiss Guard, who may or may not have thrown in with the Illuminati. But the real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness, with lush cinematography by Salvatore Totino, who renders the real sky above the Vatican, in a cataclysmic event, with the detail and majesty of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. --A.T. Hurley
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