A.O. Scott on Angels & Demons:
This movie, without being particularly good, is nonetheless far less hysterical than “Da Vinci.†Its preposterous narrative, efficiently rendered by the blue-chip screenwriting team of Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, unfolds with the locomotive elegance of a Tintin comic or an episode of “Murder, She Wrote.†Mr. Howard’s direction combines the visual charm of mass-produced postcards with the mental stimulation of an easy Monday crossword puzzle. It could be worse.
Personally, I was bored and annoyed by The Da Vinci Code — the movie; I’ve never read the book — more than anything else, so I don’t expect to watch this prequel-turned-sequel.