http://www.cinemaverdict.com/2009/05/17/review-angels-demons/ Spreading film criticism all over the web Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.cinemaverdict.com/2009/05/17/review-angels-demons/comment-page-1/#comment-858 Michael Stailey Sun, 31 May 2009 09:44:12 +0000 http://www.cinemaverdict.com/?p=805#comment-858 Not having seen DA VINCI CODE, I was warned about how disastrous it was and the potential mine field ANGELS & DEMONS might be. Like Clark, I was surprised at Ron Howard's ability to maintain a breakneck pace, despite the voluminous exposition dumped upon us by screenwriters David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman -- the former showed real promise, before hooking up with Steven Spielberg; and the latter has been torturing us for quite some time . Credit the real thrust of the picture to composer Hans Zimmer who envelops us in a thick tapestry of impending religious doomsday. Sure, there was a great deal of hokum involved, but since everybody involved played along, nothing within this Dan Brown inspired universe seemed too out of place. The thing that I found curious is that ANGELS & DEMONS the novel was a prequel to THE DA VINCI CODE, something they chose not to adhere to in the film version. No matter. If you can forgive the cheese, it's worth taking the ride. Not having seen DA VINCI CODE, I was warned about how disastrous it was and the potential mine field ANGELS & DEMONS might be. Like Clark, I was surprised at Ron Howard’s ability to maintain a breakneck pace, despite the voluminous exposition dumped upon us by screenwriters David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman — the former showed real promise, before hooking up with Steven Spielberg; and the latter has been torturing us for quite some time . Credit the real thrust of the picture to composer Hans Zimmer who envelops us in a thick tapestry of impending religious doomsday. Sure, there was a great deal of hokum involved, but since everybody involved played along, nothing within this Dan Brown inspired universe seemed too out of place. The thing that I found curious is that ANGELS & DEMONS the novel was a prequel to THE DA VINCI CODE, something they chose not to adhere to in the film version. No matter. If you can forgive the cheese, it’s worth taking the ride.

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