"Angels & Demons" Review

Hi All,

Just went to see Angels & Demons with a friend this week.  This movie is the second one by the author of The DaVinci Code.  It starred Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon of Harvard who is called to the Vatican to uncover some clues to a mystery when four cardinals are kidnapped.  This all happens during the interim when one Pope has died and they are in enclave selecting the next Pope.  At the same time, some scientists have developed a quantity of anti-matter which has been stolen and is possibly going to be used to blow up the Vatican and much of Rome.

So the show makes for a pretty good ride.  The movie was not bad; it was much better than the boring DaVinci Code.  It was the usual Dan Brown fare with a series of esoteric clues being followed, and a number of gruesome deaths.

But my main concern in going to the show was to see if it would be filled with the same amount of heretical lies, conspiracy theories, and unprovable ridiculous hypotheses like the DaVinci Code.  I went to the movie with Ed Komoszewski, author of "Reinventing Jesus" and "Putting Jesus in His Place".  "Reinventing Jesus" helps to answer some of the questions raised by The DaVinci Code, and the Jesus Seminar.  It is a very Biblical and theological defense of the real Jesus.    So we attended the movie, and I have to say that unlike the DaVinci Code, this movie was not filled with the lies, heresy and inventive history of the previous movie.  There is one point in the movie where he takes one dig at the church through the mouth of an assassin who says that he is always hired by people "in the name of God, or in the name of Allah" to kill somebody.  He warns Robert Langdon to watch out for men of God, because they are dangerous.  But other than that, this movie did not make the same sort of attacks upon the deity of Jesus which DaVinci Code did.

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All for now,
In Christ,
Dr. Bill