A Devil of a Film, A God-Like Review

Just back from sitting through my first proper Summer Blockbuster (A film in the summer line-up that I had high hopes for/expressed any genuine interest/hope in)
Angles & Demons, a film in which Symbologist in a grown man's body Colin Hanks' Dad runs around looking at statues and finding out at which exact angle they point towards near Rome and The Vatican in hopes of uncovering the truth about the Acuteinati, an ancient society who worshipped angles less than 90 degrees.

I was a huge fan of the De Niro Code, which saw the same character go around France with Amelie watching Scorsese films to uncover why he wasn't chosen to be Jesus in The Last Temptation Of Christ, and the shocking truth of what the church did to make Scorsese go with Willem Defoe instead.

The first was a poorly received long slow-paced slow burning thriller from Richie Cunningham, and writer Daniel Tertiary Colour.
The sequel was actually the first book, and it's a different entity.

In this one the pace is amped up, it's not a chase through France from the law, Bobby Langston is working with the force to stop some bad people murder cardinals in more and more interesting ways for the audience, it's like that sequence in The Fifth Element where they open the props up with the elements, mixed with Seven, with less gore, but still shocking mainly for the age rating, hell, there's an eye on screen out of socket for about 2 seconds, enough to take it in, and it looks real-er than in Kill Bill Vol. 2.

So, there's this plot which is kinda dumb completely, but you just go along with it, there's some nicely set up murder scenes and action sequences, long dialogues that lead to the audience beating the characters to the scenes, thanks to the fast paced cameras, and the twists, thanks to criminally obvious double twists, but as it's well acted, interesting for what it is, and fast paced, it's like an episode of 24, you know, the good times, season 1 stuff, where each episode a mole was revealed or revealed as an anti-mole mole or some stupid writing out of a corner.

And I have to admit, I enjoyed the funk out of it, it was well made, and had much more authority in camera than the first, Howard has come very far, and it felt like I cared about the Catholic Church ever so slightly for once, not enough to want a happy ending, but still, and even a helicopter explosion/priest parachute sequence couldn't make me think it was dumb.

I enjoyed the original and I'm glad to see they made the sequel a superior film, a different beast, as this is a murder mystery/race against time, the first was a what-the-heck-is-going-on-and-lets-not-get-arrested-or-killed-Amelie-ok? film. I look forward to a thrid film, proveided there's a third novel of course, yes it's trash, but it's summer trash, and it's slow enough and with the lack of action it's not Star Trek bang bang gun-ho crap that I detest if trying to be serious, this is the trashy novels of cinema, and I love it.
9/10