It was poor movie. The main flaw with "Angels & Demons" is that it ask us to take it seriously. It has no suspense. It unspools as a ridiculous theological scavenger hunt in which poor Tom Hanks rushes from church to church across Rome - shouting out "clues" as he runs along. But let's be fair. "Angels & Demons" is better than "The Da Vinci Code" movie in two counts. Tom Hanks has a better haircut - that '70s mane is gone... and there is a genuine surprise ending.
PG-13 with violence only. It's about 2 hours and 20 minutes.
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I agree. Like "The Davinci Code," it was just more digs against the Catholic Church, spreads more lies and rediculour conspiracy theories about the Pope and the clergy, and was a sucky movie to boot. Porrly written, poorly acted, and hokey as hokey can be. As a Catolic I am again very insulted, and sorry I wated my money.
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Re: Angels & Demons (review)
Good thing that I didn't go see that movie because it's not worth to waste money for nuthin'!
I will save it when it comes straight to Netflix or rent it at the video store.
I will save it when it comes straight to Netflix or rent it at the video store.
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Re: Angels & Demons (review)
Loved the book, hated the movie!!! 
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I never read the book, Hipielivn, but that's almost allways the case. The movie is almost never as good or the same as the book it's based on. I had a simular experience with the film "Mommy Dearest." The book was a thousand times better then the movie, but the movie was not bad.
My problem with "Angels and Demons" was not only the fact that it was a really badly done film, but it was also highly insulting to Catholics, and it's a pack of lies. It was just as bad as "The Davinci Code" for spreading lies about something that I hold very sacred. I was very offended, and I would have demanded my money back, except that some of the people who work at that theatre were friends of mine.
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My problem with "Angels and Demons" was not only the fact that it was a really badly done film, but it was also highly insulting to Catholics, and it's a pack of lies. It was just as bad as "The Davinci Code" for spreading lies about something that I hold very sacred. I was very offended, and I would have demanded my money back, except that some of the people who work at that theatre were friends of mine.
Mike
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Re: Angels & Demons (review)
i'm a former catholic seminarian and i don't find it the least bit insulting 
it's fiction and in the end the church's cooler heads prevailed, winning out over the zealots on the left and the right 
it's fiction and in the end the church's cooler heads prevailed, winning out over the zealots on the left and the right