Summer Movies : Angel & Demon

There is slight Difference between the book and the movie. Like the Usual, the book is actually more detail in introducing the character such as character development, and how the "anti-matter" theory comes about. It also further explain the theory on symbol which most of us might not be familiar.

Cast & Characters

Robert Langdon, - He is the Symbolist Expert here, call in to help solve the mystery behind the disappearance of the pope successor. Not much details on how he make his way to Rome, the whole story revolve around him and Vittoria racing around Rome trying to uncover clues left by the assassin to find the 4 pope successor.

Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca,

In the book, He murdered the pope, who is later revealed to have been his biological father. His codename for dealing with the assassin, "Janus", was taken from the two-faced Roman god of beginnings and ends, and for whom the month of January was named
But there wasn't much details about him in the movies, except that he kinda wanted to lead the church to another level, more of like a warrior kinda of idea in leading the church which I think most of the successor would not approved. Evidence of poison found in the pope seems to suggest he plan it all along.....The ending will tell all....

Leonardo Vetra (not mention in the movie at all), I think he is one of the professor that dies during the time when the assassin come to grab the "antimatter" ...consider he is the adoptive father of Viittoria Vetra, make me wonder how come he wasn't given any screen time at all?

Vittoria Vetra, came into the picture with the knowledge of the so called "God" particle. race around with Robert Langdon, to help find it and charge it up to be return back to the lab. She have lot of knowledge of physics and keep a journal on it as well which become a target of the bad guy....

Their Chemistry is not too bad, expecially the scene where they went to the archive section and have to tear-up a page of a very precisous book.

Cardinal Saverio Mortati - The one on the left, Who almost become the pope himself. Luckily Langdon manage to save one of the successor pope...But he seem to be the smart guy here..knowing that he don really trust Camerlengo

Another bad guy who co-operated with Camerlengo, but ended up outsmarted by him and landed himself out of action...but he still leave behind some evidence to enable the real culprit to be caught....

Hassassin - the assassin hired to kill off the sucessor pope. This must be one of the stupidest character in the movie, think the director change the way he dies, in the movies he was killed when he ignited his Car's Engineer (How stupid, any experience assassin would have know that this is a risk), in the book, I think he fell to his death....Would have like the book ending better, it more realistic.

Story

Center around Rome, The story start kicking into high gear once they realise that the bomb can actually destory the entire rome City and Robert Langdon & Vittoria Vetra Started racing round the city trying to find the following as the so called Secret society " Illuminati" would always use this so call method to place their captives.....(something which my friend call it lame as it make them so predictable and be easly caught.....and I thought so....too....but it probably the writiing of the book as well...lol)

The 4 Clues were ...

• Earth — Habakkuk and the Angel in Chigi Chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo
• Air — West Ponente at Saint Peter's Square
• Fire — The Ecstasy of St Teresa sculpture at the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
• Water — The famous Fountain of Four Rivers at Piazza Navona

Though I have been to Rome, can't remember all this place...and this movie do spark an interest in visiting this magnificent place again......

They only manage to save the last successor pope, also due to the stupidity of the Assassin to even execute the order when both Robert Langdon & Vittoria Vetra are already at the scence and police are around. This I think is why the pope can be rescue, the lluminati are too predictable,

The final scene talks about the revelation of how Camerlengo did everything so that he could be name the next pope. But he eventually die by killing himself with fire. Something I didn't understand have I not read the book....(Cos he is filled with guilt for killing his dad and all those evil stuff he did just to have the throne...)

I must say, I enjoy Dan Brown's book "The Davinci code" and the movie as their seems to be more details put into the movies which is really lacking here in Angel and Demon, probably due to the fact that this is the first prequel to the Davinci Code. 2.5/5 is what i think this movie is worth....Entertaining but short of details and you will be confused with all those symbol they talk about in the movies...

But Still, it doing quite ok, though not as good as DaVinci Code. This is how the 2009 Top Movies Stands

1. Star Trek - $222Million (Seen - Great)

2. Monster & Alien - $195Million (Seen - Crappy - Review coming up real soon)

3. X-men Wolverine - $180Million (Seen - Summer Popcorn)

4. Fast & Furious - $155Million (Seen - Great)

5. Paul Blart - Mall Cop - $147Million (Nope - DVD Release)

6. Taken - $145Million (Nope - DVD Release)

7. Up - $130Million (Nope - Not Release yet -- ETA Sep09)

8. Night at The Museum 2 - $130Million (Seen - OK, the Original is better)

9. Angel & Demon - $115Million (Seen - OK, Davinci Code is better)

10. Teminator Salvation - $105Million (Seen - Better than expected, Review coming up)