Angels & Demons
June 2, 2009
I can’t speak for the book, not having read it. However, I saw the movie this weekend and I think that I agree with the consensus that it is a better story than it’s companion sequel/prequel The Da Vinci Code. Now the prior move was entertaining to a certian extent, but it suffered gravely from a plot that failed to make a lick of sense. Angels & Demons, by very stark contrast, is very tightly plotted.
It might be as wildly implausible as the prior film, but it isn’t nonsensical. In fact, it does a nice feat of legerdemain by giving us the typical age-old conspiracy by the Illuminati, spending most of the movie investing in having us buy the absurd premise, and then having a shocking reveal at the end which is 100% Hollywood and yet actually makes the entire previous movie more believable. “More believable” being a relative term— We’re in pre-reboot Bond film territory here.
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The idea that we can make that much anti-matter in such a short period of time still seems rather implausible to me, but if you take the science out of it, I really did enjoy the rest of the movie.
I really enjoyed the movie, but then I’m always a cheap date. My point of implausibility was that a certain character (no spoilers) was so masochistic. Darn, it’s hard not to give away the plot.