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A few years back, the Vatican, the seat of power for the Roman Catholic Church, had waxed apoplectic over The Da Vinci Code - both the Dan Brown book and Ron Howard's 2006 movie version. According to the director, the Holy See blocked his attempts to shoot scenes of Angels...
Beach scenes in a religious thriller? Not quite. World-renowned symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) is taking a 5 a.m. water workout in the Harvard swimming pool when a papal emissary shows up to inform him that someone has kidnapped four prominent Cardinals, all in line to be the next Pope...
But it was also the 27th top worldwide grosser in film history, so here comes Angels: same star, director, producer (Brian Grazer) and scripter (abetted this time by David Koepp). Also the same approach: it's a movie, so we'd better feign movement. The back-history in which Langdon...
They're all very watchable, which helps compensate for the necessary cipher at the center. Not that Hanks is bad; there's just no person for him to play. Given that it's the only role the actor has returned to in his live-action film work (he's repeated...
So you're not exactly going to be stranded on the island à la Tom Hanks in Castaway? Oh no, my girlfriend is looking forward to it! She's coming out for the full six months and friends and family can drop in as they see fit. My aim is...