Review: ANGELS & DEMONS — Matt wonders if Ron Howard knows that a thriller is supposed to contain thrills

Written by Matt Goldberg

I never held out much hope for “Angels & Demons” because I never saw anything to make me hopeful. It was a spin-off created by the success of “The Da Vinci Code” and because there was another Robert Langdon book available, it made financial sense. But the book, “Angels & Demons” is awful and reads like a first-draft of “The Da Vinci Code” by having the same dull protagonist accompanied by stock characters, a plot based on pseudo-art and religious history, and a treasure hunt based on clues derived from quasi-to-non factual histories of various artworks, buildings, people, etc. The antagonist is a self-loathing toolbag of some greater big bad who appears to be noble but is actually a self-righteous ass-hat whose masterplan requires people acting in just the right way at just the right time or …

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Review: ANGELS & DEMONS — Matt wonders if Ron Howard knows that a thriller is supposed to contain thrills