Robert Langdon is back! I thought you'd be all excited about that. Yes, Tom hanks returns as the Professor from The Da Vinci Code in another action-packed, thrill-a-minute roller coaster adventure (I am being sarcastic, of course). This time round, he is bought in by the Vatican to help stop the death of four cardinals and the destruction of the Papal city after a threat is made by an ancient religious sect. Sounds thrilling enough? Well it isn't.
Ron Howard's sequel(?) based on Dan Brown's first book is brimming with religious and artistic techno-babble, as clues are marked out in order for the Professor to find the cardinals before they are killed. the trouble is, everything is so conveniently laid out. For example, a scene in which Hanks and scientist Ayelet Zurer look for a statue about air, and they just so happen to be standing on something similar, so it must be on the floor.
There are so many pit-falls, it's hard to actually know where to start. The direction is workmanlike and moves along at a leisurely pace, with long scenes of explanatory dialogue thrown in for good measure, usually in a pretty setting. The thrills aren't there, where we should be on the edge of our seats, and as for the ending...well, after sitting through one of the stupidest sequences known to man, we are then given another 25 minutes where the true ending lies.
Hanks, looking intelligent but frowning a lot, is fine but the material he is working with is laughable. once again, like the previous movie, the dialogue left me sniggering, and you sometimes wondered how this ever got green lighted with lines like: It's an explosive device called...Antimatter!
Drab, dull, uninvolved and just plain silly, this must rank as one of the worse movies of the year, and even though it is better than The Da Vinci Code, (only just), it surely couldn't have got worse.
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