Angels & Demons Critic Reviews

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

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

The new movie is an opulent-bordering-on-hysterical mass of chitchat and chase scenes.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

Of 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.Read the full review

The movie can be enjoyed for the hell-raising hooey it is.Read the full review

Preposterous.Read the full review

In 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.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