Ron Howard and Tom Hank’s team up for a second tale in the world of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon and the results exceed that of the Da Vinci Code, and is a solid picture on its own right in the end.
The CERN particle acceleration research center is in the business of colliding atoms in hope of discovering the scientific answers to the creation of the universe but has a side project that is interested in the collection of a highly volatile substance called anti-matter. Incapable of coming into contact with another any piece of matter the substance can cause, in the universe of the film, substantial devastation from the said incident of contact. When one of these canisters of harvested anti-matter is stolen and a scientist murdered, the project’s second in command, Vittoria Vettra, is called to Vatican City along with Robert Langdon to help investigate in a plot against the Vatican during the Conclave selecting the new Pope after the recent death of the previous. The four Preferiti cardinals have been kidnapped and the vile of antimatter is somewhere hidden in the Vatican and with the threat of the Preferiti to be murdered on the hour leading up to the destruction of Vatican City by the anti-matter at midnight [Read more...]