Angels & Demons review - Better late then never..... ^_^'

Okay, so technically I should have written this review like, a week ago.... ^_^' I had on my mind what it was I wanted to write not to long after I saw it, but then things got kind of crazy and then.... yeah, you get the idea.

Well quite frankly, I personally don't really understand all to well what people didn't like so much about The Da Vinci Code myself. And I think in this particular case, I'm once again not finding what people aren't liking about this either. One complaint that seems to be typical of most critics in particular has a lot to do with Tom Hanks supposedly putting on some of the worst acting of his career. And while admittedly he's by and far not at his best in either movie, I'm just not seeing any signs of particularly bad acting either. I suppose it mostly comes down to whether or not you read the actual book and being able to more easily point out movie making flaws, kind of like how I was with Watchmen? Because the stories of both are actually quite good, very engaging, exciting and unpredictable stuff. But that's just because of the fact that the story comes from the novels themselves.

Only problem is with Watchmen not only was I able to recognize movie making flaws more easily, I could also see where holes in the story arose because of the director's inability to handle the story with much care. I think if anything can be said about this movie, as well as The Da Vinci Code, it would have to be that (and my mom is mostly the one who can attest to this, since she's read the books and I haven't) the adaptation of the story was almost spot on perfect. A few things done a little differently, but nothing very dramatic at all. Everything that needed to be there was there and structured and handled the way it needed to be. And as I mentioned before, it made for one very exciting and engaging story.

Granted I won't say that either movie was perfectly flawless either. Or at least I won't go around claiming either of them as the best movie of the summer or anything like that anyways. But not a bad movie by any measure either. But if Da Vinci Code was not your cup of tea, I will say this and whoever reads this can take it for what it's worth, but that Angels & Demons, at least in my view anyways, is definitely the better of the two. Of course one also has to realize that it is supposed to be technically a prequel to Da Vinci (A & D came out before Da Vinci book wise), but rather than being mostly about the controversial religious philosophy and puzzle solving stuff like it's predecessor was, A & D focuses more on being just an all around entertaining summer blockbuster. And it really is at that.

Rating: 3 stars out of 4, 7/10