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'Angels & Demons'
The Vatican has broken their silence on Ron Howard's upcoming thriller Angels & Demons, according its official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. In it's first pronouncement, the paper called the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, "harmless entertainment which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity."
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The film offers "more than two hours of harmless entertainment, which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity," L'Osservatore's reviewer wrote. It's "a videogame that first of all sparks curiosity and is also, maybe, a bit of fun."
"Angels & Demons" features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon of "The Da Vinci Code" fame, played by Tom Hanks. In the film, the Vatican turns to Langdon after an ancient secret brotherhood called the Illuminati kidnap four cardinals considered front-runners to be the next pope, and threaten to kill one an hour and then explode a bomb at the Vatican.
On Sunday, Howard said the Vatican had interfered with his efforts to get permits to shoot some scenes. A Vatican spokesman said the statement was designed purely to drum up publicity for the film.
Top church officials strongly objected to "The Da Vinci Code" because it was based on the idea that Jesus married and fathered children and depicted the conservative Catholic movement, Opus Dei, as a murderous cult.
Check out the trailer for the film, courtesy of NCM:
Check out the larger version, complete with Minority Report feel.
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