Angels and Demons

Angels and Demons



Angels and Demons is a film directed by Ron Howard and it rests on the platform of kidnapper’s demand and the ticking bomb that can blow off the Vatican City. Besides these, there is death of Pope, and the conclave of cardinal will in no time select a new Holy Father.

Film: Angels and Demons
Cast: Tom Hanks as Langdon, Ewan McGregor as Camerlango, Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria, Stellan Skarsgard as Richter
Writer: Dan Brown
Director: Ron Howard
Run Time: 2 hours 18 minutes
Rating: 3/5




One shot shows Camerlengo; the priest played by Ewan McGregor suddenly begins lecturing the Cardinals on the church histories and that is for the benefit of the audience who at the end will be definitely grateful for the briefing.

These cardinals were about to get killed, Vatican city was about to be destroyed as there is a bomb hidden somewhere by a group of anti-church elements. It is a well-crafted thriller and you can consider the film Angels and Demons providing with all thrill and the entertainment on the celluloid, if you set aside the desperate chase all across Rome for finding the bomb and few other historical explanations.

In the film it has been portrayed that there exist a long cold war between science and religion that is the church group with illuminati.

The movie Angels and Demons is based on Dan Brown’s novel and it has been written much before the DaVinci Code. But the movie was set aside to be made after DaVinci code. In angels and Demons, it is again Tom Hanks who plays the role of a scholar and a professor Robert Langdon who has been summoned at Vatican to solve the mystery.

Initially it was known that some anti matter was stolen from Geneva, that is from CERN large Hadron Collider and it was assumed that it has been done by the anti-church group Illuminati. Illuminati have been shown as a secret group that works against the church to take revenge because of the time when scientists like Galileo was prosecuted.

Now, it is Tom Hanks who is in search of the kidnappers who have kidnapped four cardinals and about to be prosecuted if the demand of the kidnappers is not met with. But, to my knowledge there was no demands from the illuminati, it simply wants to take revenge and wanted to see more than white smoke billowing from the church towers of Vatican City.

There is no reason why the bomb was hidden with clues left in such a way that Tom Hanks had no major problem in unearthing it with taking the correct clues. Tom Hanks, the professor was accompanied by Vittoria Vetra played by Ayelet Zurer. It was Vittoria, the scientist who has created the deadly vial that is inside the sinister bomb.


The audience also came to know that Vittoria’s father was killed in the theft of this vial, the anti matter. So what was the purpose of Vittoria? Her motive was to let know that the battery will run down, she wanted to get back the secret journals of her father and above all was in a mission in the film to accompany Tom Hanks. The desperate quest of Tom Hanks is also accompanied by Camerlonga played by Ewan McGregor.

In the film you will be amazed to see the pristine chapels, churches and the tombs. Time and again the conflict between science and religion emerges and tilts from one side to the other. However, towards end the director makes a fine balance between the agnostics and the believers of God.

The film was definitely not allowed any shot inside Sistine Chapel and it can never be possible after Dan Brown’s book on DaVinci Code. So Ron Howard should be satisfied that the film has got positive reviews from Vatican media.