ANGELS & DEMONS Film Review - 28/6/09

This film should really be called "Ron Howard Stole My Mind" because as I was watching it I had that classic feeling of already having seen it before? Every scene seemed really, really familiar? This is very strange as I read the book many years ago so there wasn't any overspill from having recently read it. I had not seen any Trailers or clips from the film at all and the only reason I saw it was as a follow-up to "The DaVinci Code" dross that was previously out. Maybe the fact that the dreary making-a-film-by-numbers scenario was in effect? The getting together of a bunch of ugly & thuggish actors to continually parade across the scenes at vital points in the thought that 'Hey, that could be the villain!' moment - Yawn!!! This film felt like it was made years back and they had just released a new print of it - It's hard to explain but it felt all out of place? I really enjoyed Dan Brown's books but feel the two film adaptions so far leave a lot to be desired?