Product Description

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

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #508 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

Stills from Angels & Demons (click for larger image)

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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Featurettes:
  - Angels & Demons: The full story
  - Rome was not built in day
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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.

Better than Da Vinci Code
This sequel/prequel to the Da Vinci Code is alot better than the first one. There is alot more action and it's very exciting.

Amazing!
Watched this on Bluray yesterday evening and it was utterly superb. Picture and sound quality (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1) is top notch, a really enjoyable and gripping movie as well, highly recommended!