Angels & Demons (Single-Disc Theatrical Edition)

starring: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino directed by: Ron Howard List Price: $28.96 Amazon.com's Price: $16.99 You Save: $11.97 (41%) as of 03/15/2010 05:41 EDT Used Price: $4.00 Collectible Price: $29.95 Third Party New Price: $8.48 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT EAN: 0043396243705 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions:120 Label: Sony Pictures Languages:EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledFrenchDubbed Manufacturer: Sony Pictures MPN: 24370 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: November 24, 2009 Running Time: 138 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2009 Related Items: The Da Vinci Code (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Single-Disc Edition) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Widescreen Edition) see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: HARVARD SYMBOLOGIST ROBERT LANGDON WORKS TO SOLVE A MURDER AND PREVENT A TERRORIST ACT AGAINST THE VATICAN. Amazon.com: If the devil is in the details, there's a lot of wicked fun in Angels & Demons, the sequel (originally a prequel) to The Da Vinci Code. Director Ron Howard delivers edge-of-your-pew thrills all over the Vatican, the City of Rome, and the deepest, dankest catacombs. Tom Hanks is dependably watchable in his reprised role as Professor Robert Langdon, summoned urgently to Rome on a matter of utmost urgency--which happens to coincide with the death of the Pope, meaning the Vatican is teeming with cardinals and Rome is teeming with the faithful. A religious offshoot group, calling themselves the Illuminati, which protested the Catholic Church's prosecution of scientists 400 years ago, has resurfaced and is making extreme, and gruesome, terrorist demands. The film zooms around the city, as Langdon follows clues embedded in art, architecture, and the very bone structure of the Vatican. The cast is terrific, including Ewan McGregor, who is memorable as a young protégé of the late pontiff, and who seems to challenge the common wisdom of the Conclave just by being 40 years younger than his fellows when he lectures for church reform. Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a gruff commander of the Swiss Guard, who may or may not have thrown in with the Illuminati. But the real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness, with lush cinematography by Salvatore Totino, who renders the real sky above the Vatican, in a cataclysmic event, with the detail and majesty of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. --A.T. Hurley Stills from Angels & Demons (click for larger image) Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A Stinky Try at Cinehistory As soon as this film begins, when I see the ritual of the Breaking of the Pope's Ring (which the Church abandoned generations ago)...when I see the ring has the deceased pope's name as "PIUS XVI"...well, I was snickering and it tore off from there and never quit. The last Pius was Pius XII, so I see Dan Brown exhibited his usual stupidity in his 1st stinky novel, which this is the film version of! Did he conveniently forget there should be Piuses XIII-XV first? Was he worried because the deceased pope in "Shoes of the Fisherman" was Pius XIII? Is he some weirdo who somehow acknowledges the 'heretical' pope we have today who styles himself Pope Pius XIII? These are but a few tiny iceberg tips in what is, admittedly, a rousing action film. Rather clever, the whole anti-matter-Illuminati-in-the-Church business. Also, simultaneously stupid. As was much of this picturesque film--though I thought the rooms of the Swiss Guard looked rather nice and genuine. We noticed Hanks looking browbeaten and raggedy in this film. I did, however, like him changing into priest's clothes which happened (miraculously) to be hanging right next to him right when he required them. Anti-Catholic? Hell, people, this film is anti-cinema, anti-good-taste!! Amazon sells great copies of "Shoes of the Fisherman"--I suggest you get it instead. If you suffered through the film version of Brown's 2nd novel (Dan Brown Teaches You All About Mary Magdalene, wasn't that it? :0), you deserve so much better. Rating: - Angels and Demons This is an awesome movie !!! As good if not better than The Da Vinci Code. Highly recommend. A movie that will be watched over and over. Rating: - Lackluster sequel to THE DA VINCI CODE. Not that the first film was a classic or anything, but it was still mildly interesting. This film begins well, but then devolves into a ridiculous pseudo-mystery and becomes tedious as it goes on. This is Ron Howard and Tom Hanks in need of a hefty paycheck, and nothing more. Hanks' Langdon is a bore, devoid of any detectable human emotion. This franchise needs to end. Rating: - Good prequel Tom Hanks still has it in the character. Hope he'll do another as Robert Langdon...maybe in the new book from Dan Brown "Lost Symbol" Rating: - fast moving i had heard mixed reviews, but i had already owned davinci code so i bought it just as a 'companion'. i really enjoyed the fast moving 'find the clues' mystery. you already 'know' who the bad guy(s) are when the movie begins,then realiably it changes,as you knew it would,and then another great twist. this is a great, stay at home on a rainy or windy day (or any day) adventure movie. see more

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