Angels and Demons

I found this somewhat long film to be short on characterization, and exhausting on clue-driven plot points. Robert Langdon is summoned by the Vatican to help investigate the return of the Illuminati (men of science who opposed the church's teaching in the past centuries) as the current pope has passed away, and the church convenes to select a new pope, all the while the Illuminati threatens to detonate an antimatter bomb at the stroke of midnight with plenty of Cardinal clue fodder for Langdon and Vittoria (a nice looking physicist played by Ayelet Zurer) to find the bomb in time, else thousands of people who have gathered in Vatican City due to the election of a new pope will perish in a bomb blast.

I found the pacing of the film weird given the time constraints of the film's plot, plus Langdon and Vittoria's reactions to dastardly doings by the bad guy was shockingly subdued, like it was old hat for such an academic and applied physicist. Let's just say they sure did roll with the punches with aplomb, much to my disbelief. The script is pretty poor, and we even get somewhat of a Scooby-Doo ending (reminiscent of the one in Minority Report).

I give it 2 stars, or a grade of C.