The movie: Nothing like The Da Vinci Code's religious mythbender about the bloodline of Jesus upending the very foundation of Christian belief. This one is a pure thriller about a plot (with a devious "surprise" twist at the end) to blow up the Vatican, albeit with some science-fiction anti-matter mumbo-jumbo. Comical dialog and action, but it is so well executed by Ron Howard that the 2 hours and 20 minutes breeze by. Quite fun.
The good news: Robert Langdon, professor of symbology, gets to check out a "missing" book by Galileo, long hidden from the public, from the Vatican archives and take back to Harvard to study. Makes it all worthwhile — for him at least.
The bad news: The Catholic Church survives.
 | Directed by Ron Howard Written by David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman (Novel by Dan Brown) |
That is bad news.
ReplyDeleteright? i thought the next one in the series was going to be "the papus strikes back" where the catholics begin construction on a sort of...well, "death star"...never mind.
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ReplyDeleteWhen, at the end, we find the resolution is that the Catholic Church (with Professor Langdon's help) has defeated an internal right-wing faction that used the "Illuminati plot" (it turns out there is no Illuminati) as a ruse to take over from the current leaders who are leading the Church into a liberal era by installing their leader, pope pro tempore Ewan McGregor (we learn he is the evil one at the end), we see why American Catholic bishops called the movie "poppycock" (i.e. the Church will never change for the better, not if they have anything to do about it.)
One wonders why the Catholic Church isn't being prosecuted under RICO (The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) given, for one recent example, the Irish Catholic School scandal the Irish Catholic School scandal.