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Hanks a Billion Brown!

Advantages: Good fun romp
Disadvantages: Hanks?

...the DaVinci Code and now Angels & Demons, the Collider featuring heavily in the latter movie, hence the intro, this the second of the Robert Langdon trilogy, even though in the book sequence this came before the DaVinci Code. Browns narrative is all about that search for the ultimate particle and how the Catholic Church has always tried to defend their increasingly absurd version of events on 'creation' against science as the gap closes between scientific ...
...= = 'Writing Angels & Demons' Director Ron Howard tries to convince us he loved making this movie but its by-the-numbers stuff for him and clearly a studio job film, one they 'ask' their top guys to do to secure future funding for the studio. This is the permanently Baseball capped directors first ever sequel in his forty-one-year directing career (In 2010 he would have made movies in five different decades believe it or not) and he was paid very ...

thedevilinme 16.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Angels And Demons (DVD)

Not quite a demon of a film, but not bad.

Advantages: Enjoyable, plot draws you in
Disadvantages: Female lead character not very strong

Angels and Demons is another film based on the best selling books written by Dan Brown. I have to confess that I am one of the few people who never read The Da Vinci Code although I did watch the film. I therefore sat down to watch Angels and Demons not knowing what the storyline was about. The film begins with the death of the Pope and as the Vatican get ready to elect a new pope four of the most likely successors are kidnapped. They are believed ...
...old religious group and are threatening to murder them one by one. Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) is sent for because of his successful detective work in the Da Vinci code and works alongside Vittoria Vettra who is a scientist who has created an explosive antimatter which has been stolen by the Illuminati and will be used as a bomb with devastating consequences. Together Langdon and Vettra chase around Rome trying to solve the clues and uncover ...

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Review of Angels And Demons (DVD)

More Of An In Between Thing Going On

Advantages: Skilfully directed, great special-effects and acting... entertaining.
Disadvantages: The storyline is a bit too tame and predictable.

Director: Ron Howard Screenplay: David Koepp & Akiva Goldsman Genre: Mystery – Drama – Thriller Country: USA Certification: 12+ Language: English/Italian/French… etc. MAIN CAST: Tom Hanks [Robert Langdon] Ewan McGregor [Camerlengo Patrick McKenna] Ayelet Zurer [Vittoria Vetra] Stellan Skarsgård [Commander Richter] Pierfrancesco Favino [Inspector Olivetti] Nikolaj Lie Kaas [Assassin] Armin Mueller-Stahl [Cardinal Strauss] Having managed to ...
...in a ‘supposedly’ fool-proof container, Leonardo Vetra, the physicist in charge, is murdered and the container is stolen… which forces his daughter Vittoria, also a physicist working on the project, to attempt to find the assassin/thief before he uses the anti-matter (which was created in order to give the world free energy) as a weapon of mass destruction. Meanwhile, the assassin/thief has managed to kidnap four cardinals, each of which could potentially ...

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Review of Angels And Demons (DVD)

Action-packed with some witty dialogue but still flawed somehow

Advantages: Quite thrilling when it gathers pace, seemed an authentic depiction of London, some humour
Disadvantages: Something about Downey Jnrs depiction of Holmes didnt work somehow, not for all ages/the squeamish

...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson start out by catching a serial killer who dabbles in the the supernatural, an evil man called Lord Blackwood who is sentenced to death, indeed Watson confirms he's dead after he's hung. Things take a distinctly sinister turn, however, when they discover than Blackwood has apparently risen from the dead and Holmes recalls what he told him before he was hung, which indicated that more ...
...actor (Robert Downey Jnr.) played Sherlock Holmes, while an English actor (Jude Law), played his right hand man, Dr. Watson. Now of course I knew that before I went to see the movie, infact I quite like Robert Downey Jnr. as an actor and I have enjoyed some of his other movies and the fact that he plays the main character was one of the main reasons I wanted to see it in the cinema but there was something about him playing this role that I just didn't ...

IzzyS 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sherlock Holmes

What goes around comes around..

Advantages: Enigmatic
Disadvantages: Perhaps too long

...I wouldn’t say this was in that impact category but certainly a quality piece of film. The drama begins with the return of thirty-something award winning war photographer Paul Harris (Mathew McFadden) to the small rural town of Steimer where he grew up, his first visit for 17 years. The night bag over the shoulder arrival is for dad’s funeral, mum long returned to the Earth, Paul’s relationship with big brother Andrew (Colin May) still not good after ...
...As per normal in these movies Paul has awakened ghosts from his and others past on his return, none more so than a long lost relationship with Penny (Miranda Otto), the reason, we discover later, he skipped town. Deciding to stick around and sort out the family estate, his brother begrudging Paul’s promised third of the Will & Testament, the rest going to an unnamed charity, things take an unexpected turn in his closed world with the arrival of a ...

thedevilinme 22.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of In My Father's Den (DVD)