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75This kind of film requires us to be very forgiving, and if we are, it promises to entertain. Angels & Demons succeeds.
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Plucking the same violent, occult strings as "Da Vinci" while avoiding its leadenness, Angels keeps the action coming for the best part of 139 minutes.
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70As transparent as this device is, Angels has elemental satisfactions in its blend of movie genre that could appeal to wide segments of the audience.
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70The movie includes some tony philosophizing about the conflict between science and faith, but it's mostly a beat-the-clock chase through Rome (nicely evoked in Salvatore Totino's lush cinematography).
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67The new movie is an opulent-bordering-on-hysterical mass of chitchat and chase scenes.
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67An OK action film, but only the humorless will find it heretical – or educational.
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63The movie can be enjoyed for the hell-raising hooey it is.
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63It's got enough going on to sustain five blockbuster thrillers. That is its blessing and its curse.
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63A far sight nimbler than its plodding predecessor, where the Holy Grail turns out to be a Holy Girl. The sequel is a little like CSI: Vatican City.
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63There are so many facts presented that many of them feel forced and trivial. We were also a little disappointed with the twist ending.
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60Despite the overlong running time, the action moves smoothly and swiftly.
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Angels & Demons is still no more than another treat for whacked-out male conspiracy theorists.
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60Less turgid and aggravating than its predecessor, this cleverly produced melodrama remains hamstrung by novelist's Dan Brown's laborious connect-the-dots plotting and the filmmakers' prosaic literal-mindedness in the face of ripe historical antagonisms, mystery and intrigue.
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50Technically a prequel to "Da Vinci" but could also pass for a two-hour episode of "24," rarely stands still long enough for anyone to deliver a monologue.
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Preposterous.
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50Whatever Howard's reasons for keeping things so stale, it was a bad choice, but lucky for viewers, some stories are just too crazy for even the dullest storytelling to completely ruin the fun.
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50Angels doesn't know when to quit: Just when you think it's over, it continues.
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50Watching what Howard has done with the book - covering up the lewdness, blunting the snobbery, and spackling the amazing plot holes - is dismaying. This adaptation has the stink of superiority about it.
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50Though complete redemption of Brown's fiction may not be possible, Howard's new film at least represents an upgrade from a mortal to a venal movie sin.
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50Unlike Nicolas Cage in "National Treasure," Hanks lacks the game for it. The surface seriousness of these Dan Brown movies obstructs his affability and easy, attentive way with romance.
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50One of the more cheerfully dumb thrillers I've seen in a good long while.
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50Perhaps this is what fans want from a movie like this: to sit back as if in a Jacuzzi and get a quick impression of history and Rome and such. If so, Howard, Brown and company likely have another monster hit on their hands.
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Ultimately everything wilts under the weight of the complicated story lines of its many saints and sinners.
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50This movie, without being particularly good, is nonetheless far less hysterical than "Da Vinci."
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50At half the length, and with half of Hanks' sneering pretension, this would make a pretty terrific action film.
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40Presumably in response to criticism that "The Da Vinci Code" was static and talky, director Ron Howard has made Angels & Demons frantic -- and, well, talky.
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40More entertaining than "The Da Vinci Code," but still tosh.
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40The only thrill here comes from the adrenaline kick of the chase. Alas, it's an empty, Pavlovian kick at best.
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40Might have been classy, entertaining junk -- if only it were entertaining.
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40A shapely, stylish, white-knuckle horror-thriller that hits its marks with blood and thunder. It stinks to heaven, too, but it isn't lame. The streets of Rome haven't run this red since the Inquisition.
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40In its last 20 minutes, Angels does attain the status of good bad movie, with a transcendently absurd climax that's great fun to rehash later over burgers.
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40Angels & Demons is a serious slog. Still, it's an odd kind of a slog that manages to keep you partially engaged, even at its most esoteric or absurd.
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What the movie is supposed to accomplish -- laying out a fairly complex mystery in a way that creates suspense -- is precisely what it doesn't do.
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38Astonishingly, Angels & Demons IS the same sort of lumbering mediocrity.
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38Of course, the problem with Angels & Demons is that to get to the final 40 minutes, it's necessary to endure the first 90, and that would be defined as cruel and unusual punishment.
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30Brown and now Ron Howard have added an incendiary element to trash--open hostility toward the Catholic Church.
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