Product Description

Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Stellan SkarsgårdDirectors: Ron Howard

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #534 in DVD
• Brand: Blu-ray Drama
• Released on: 2009-09-14
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Subtitled in: English, Hindi
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .26 pounds
• Running time: 138 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
If the devil is in the details, there's a lot of wicked fun in Angels & Demons, the sequel (originally a prequel) to The Da Vinci Code. Director Ron Howard delivers edge-of-your-pew thrills all over the Vatican, the City of Rome, and the deepest, dankest catacombs. Tom Hanks is dependably watchable in his reprised role as Professor Robert Langdon, summoned urgently to Rome on a matter of utmost urgency--which happens to coincide with the death of the Pope, meaning the Vatican is teeming with cardinals and Rome is teeming with the faithful. A religious offshoot group, calling themselves the Illuminati, which protested the Catholic Church's prosecution of scientists 400 years ago, has resurfaced and is making extreme, and gruesome, terrorist demands.

The film zooms around the city, as Langdon follows clues embedded in art, architecture, and the very bone structure of the Vatican. The cast is terrific, including Ewan McGregor, who is memorable as a young protégé of the late pontiff, and who seems to challenge the common wisdom of the Conclave just by being 40 years younger than his fellows when he lectures for church reform. Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a gruff commander of the Swiss Guard, who may or may not have thrown in with the Illuminati. But the real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness, with lush cinematography by Salvatore Totino, who renders the real sky above the Vatican, in a cataclysmic event, with the detail and majesty of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. --A.T. Hurley, Amazon.com

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Synopsis
ANGELS AND DEMONS re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's novel THE DA VINCI CODE. Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel THE DA VINCI CODE, the movie transpires after the events of the earlier movie. Hanks stars as Professor Robert Langdon, the most respected symbologist in the United States, who uses his knowledge in order to decode a symbol on the skin of a murder victim. The clues put him on the trail of an international conspiracy involving the Catholic Church. Ewan McGregor and Ayelet Zurer also star in the Sony Pictures production.

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Customer Reviews

Very enjoyable movie
Enjoyed this much more than I expected too. More thrilling with twists and turns in the plot than the first movie. Bluray picture was superb on 1080p 50" plasma and HD audio was was equally crisp. The extended version just seemed to have more blood and gore.

Spectacular
I've just come back from the cinema where I watched the 'Digitally Enhanced' version of Angels And Demons. Wow, is my first reaction - quite literally! I was glued from the word go, probably because my interest of current affairs, and action and adventure entwined. I found it fascinating that the story was centred around not only the Catholic Church and the secret society 'Illuminati'. But also the Big Bang experiment which as you may recall (in real life), scientists started the experiment with the Hadron Collider at the end of last year, until things started to go wrong and they had to postpone it. This film again brings to the forefront the age old question of Religion V Science.

Without giving too much away, this is the synopis of the film as shown on the IDBM website. 'When Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the secret organization's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. When Langdon learns that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, he jets to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that mark the Vatican's only hope for survival'.

The acting was superb. I was especially impressed by Ewan McGregor as Camerlengo Patrick McKenna.

I enjoyed this film even more than the Da Vinci Code. I thought there was a lot more to it, and it was a lot more realistic. There was also more action and adventure, and a lot more suspense! The twist towards the end was brilliant. I think this film definitely did what it set out to do - get people talking!

A very enjoyable thriller.
I really enjoyed this film. Stunning visuals (which bluray shows off perfectly!), great music, the Director did a wonderful job in making a visually beautiful film, and the story was gripping and exciting. (lots missing from the book.... but the book would be 4 hours long if they made it exactly!).

A great addition to anyone's film collection!!!