The movie version of the controversial book ANGELS & DEMONS avoids some of the most powerful emotional parts of the book as well as some of the anti-Christian, anti-Catholic speeches, but retains the book’s sophomoric tone of smearing religion through false information while trying to whitewash the hero’s position through some positive references to Jesus Christ, faith and the church that do not convince the hero. (HH, AbAbAb, CC, B, LL, VV, N, A, D, M) Humanist science versus Christian religion storyline supporting a false materialistic worldview that strongly supports the humanist position against the Bible and Christianity, with some very, very pro-Christian statements that, however, are unconvincing to the agnostic hero and movie includes many anti-church, anti-Christian, anti-faith barbs, smears and insinuations, plus and a resolution with positive portrait of Catholic Cardinals five obscenities and five profanities several acts of intense violence, including an eyeball on the floor of a laboratory, cardinals are literally branded with ambigrams, pope’s assistant brands himself, people shot, cardinal burned to death, attempted drowning, blood spurting from a man whose lungs have been punctured, people blown around by explosion, parachutist battered and beaten when he hits building no sex very brief upper male nudity alcohol smoking and, deception by Vatican in news reports and renegade priest. ANGELS & DEMONS avoids some of the most powerful emotional parts of the book as well as some of the anti-Christian, anti-Catholic speeches and adds some positive Christian content, but retains the book’s revisionist history and prevailing smearing of Christianity through false information. In fact, Tom Hanks seems as if he’s sleepwalking in his role. His science partner, Vittoria, arrives in Rome at the same time as Langdon to find the anti-matter before the Vatican is blown to smithereens one hour after the last cardinal is murdered.ĭespite excellent special effects, the mystery in ANGELS & DEMONS is so convoluted that the actors often look like they’re bystanders. Meanwhile, at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland, someone has murdered a scientist, removed and used his eyeball to gain access to steal a canister of dangerous anti-matter. A papal police officer flies to Harvard to get Professor Robert Langdon because four cardinals have been kidnapped, with the intention of killing each one on the hour, and the Vatican has been threatened. The movie version of ANGELS & DEMONS opens with the cardinals convening to elect a new pope since the pope has just died.
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