Angels & Demons Critic Reviews
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This kind of film requires us to be very forgiving, and if we are, it promises to entertain. Angels & Demons succeeds.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
The new movie is an opulent-bordering-on-hysterical mass of chitchat and chase scenes.Read the full review
The movie can be enjoyed for the hell-raising hooey it is.Read the full review
Less 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.Read the full review
This movie, without being particularly good, is nonetheless far less hysterical than "Da Vinci."Read the full review
Angels doesn't know when to quit: Just when you think it's over, it continues.Read the full review
Preposterous.Read the full review
Ultimately everything wilts under the weight of the complicated story lines of its many saints and sinners.Read the full review
Watching 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.Read the full review
