Angels & Demons

About 3/4 of the way through this movie I was thinking “this is so much better than ‘The Da Vinci Code’.”

That’s true. This movie is way more interesting than the “Da Vinci” dud.

But then “Angels & Demons” ran for 30 minutes longer and everything fell apart.

The story needed three kidnapped cardinals, not four. It needed five flaming / dilapidated / creepy churches. Not 10 (or however many there were).

A little restraint could have made this a tight two hours of frivolous and absurd fun. But when it kept lingering and lingering, you knew the twist was coming.