Angels & Demons Critic Reviews

This movie, without being particularly good, is nonetheless far less hysterical than "Da Vinci."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

Angels doesn't know when to quit: Just when you think it's over, it continues.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

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

Angels & 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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review