Angels and Demons

This movie is based on the book of the same title. I've read the book especially for the movie and I hate the book. Read here to know why.

I would like to retype that this movie is based on the book of the same title. Being based on the book means that the movie can be tailored to appeal to those going to the cinema and watching the movie without the added advantage of having read the book. Having read the book (which i turned out to hate), i really appreciate that the movie is only based on the book but does'nt totally depend on it in a kind of oh-i-cant-live-without-you-way. I hereby declare that Angels and Demons (the movie) is so good and i like it waaaaayyyyy better that Da Vinci Code, although I hate Angels and Demons (the book).

The storyline is the same for both book and the movie. The pope died, the college of cardinals need to pick a new pope but the four prefereti (preferred cardinals) was kidnapped. Robert Langdon was called in because a group called illuminati (which was founded way back when) is believed to be behind this.

As always, for the synopsis, google it up or better yet just go and watch it. The movie running time is just a little bit over 2-hours, and it is a very fast paced, running-around-solving-riddles kinda movie, that I bet no one can be bored by watching this.

However, there are major differences between the movie and the book. I just like to highlight a few here, so that those has watched the movie but not read the book know about it. It doesnt change the plot much, but if these were in the movie, i think the movie will have a stronger (but complicated) storyline. Here goes;

1. Vittoria Vetra worked with her father Leonardo Vetra on the antimatter project but in the movie she was working with a partner (forgot his name already, hoho)


2. Robert Langdon seems to have more policemen at his disposal in the movie. In the book, mostly it's him and Vittoria solving the riddles before the policemen get into the picture.


3. Maximilian Kohler (the director of CERN, where the antimatter facility is located) doesn't exist in the movie but plays an important role in the book. Kohler was the person who summoned Langdon into the case, he was the person who realized that the camerlengo was the bad guy.


4. All four prefereti was murdered in the book and the leader of the conclave was chosen to be the next Pope. In the movie, Cardinal Baggia, one of the prefereti, survived from drowning and was chosen as the new Pope.


5. In the book Vittoria Vetra's father, Leonardo Vetra was murdered and branded with the ambigram Illuminati. In the movie, her working partner was murdered and he was not branded.


6. In the book, Langdon followed the Camerlengo into the helicopter to let the antimatter explode high in the sky. In the movie, the camerlengo did this alone.

Apart from some name differences from the book, these are the major differences that I've noticed and still remembered. If I watched the movie again maybe I'll find some more. But I'm glad that the movie is a little bit different from the book, because I think this is the first movie-based-on-a-book that I like.

p/s: yeah, i'm obsessed with reading & books. Thank you.