Inutile workers

Several stories have encountered the success enjoyed by Dan Brown’s the Da Vinci Code.  With an interesting foundation and a presentation of a mystery – which isn’t that novel to start with – in an exhilarating new light, booklovers have been immersed with the fictional work.  The film, starring Tom Hanks in the starring role of Robert Langdon, equally met great victory considering the status of the book it was rooted on.

But majority of Dan Brown’s readers are of the opinion that Angels & Demons, the book that arrived before the Da Vinci Code which also presented Robert Langdon as the lead character, is a distant better work compared to the more illustrious sequel.

Whereas the Da Vinci Code discussed an ages-old mystery guarded by the Catholic Church, that is, Mary Magdalene being the wife of Jesus Christ and the Holy Grail being a testimonial to the holy lineage of God’s sole begotten son, Angels & Demons deals with something more secular – how the Vatican maneuvers.

Angels & Demons, in reality, is one of just a handful of literary works that gives us a glimpse at the choice of a new Pope.

This is what the volume is all concerning to, amidst the condition of a plan to hold the Vatican hostage with threats of letting loose an anti-matter tool that can instantly eliminate a quarter of the globe.  It’s a battle versus time, with Robert Langdon leading the pack by craking problems and decoding cryptograms in an attempt to unearth the location of the anti-matter bomb.

It’s an exciting novel, surely.  And all signs point to the fact that it’s going to be a thrilling flick.  Early on, censors are already announcing that Angels & Demons is more tailor-made for the movie contrasted to its heir, the Da Vinci Code. The latter, nonetheless, is talkier, its conflict runs are more static, and its core point is the intellectual unraveling of its obscurities.  Angels & Demons, then again, is a chase story – one which will convert well as an action mystery movie.

Apart from Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer stars in the movie, playing the part of Vittoria Vetra, a CERN scientist and a scholar and loving match for Robert Langdon.  Ewan Macgregor portrays the role of Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca, who is a vital persona in the story.