![]() I don't recall if the Illuminati had any demands. They will be executed in succession at 8, 9, 10 and 11 p.m., until the battery on the anti-matter vial runs out of juice at midnight and the faithful will see more than a puff of white smoke above the Vatican. Four of them, the preferati, the favorites to be next pope, have been kidnapped. The cardinals have been summoned to elect his successor. Earlier, we learned, a rare, sealed vial of anti-matter was stolen from the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, and a note taking credit comes from the Illuminati, a secret society that has long hated the Catholic Church because of the days when it persecuted Galileo and other scientists.Ī "popular and progressive" pope has just died. Robert Langdon ( Tom Hanks) is at Harvard when he is summoned from a swimming pool by an emissary from the Vatican, and flown to Rome to face a crisis. It's based on a novel that came before "The DaVinci Code" in Dan Brown's oeuvre. ![]() This kind of film requires us to be very forgiving, and if we are, it promises to entertain. ![]() Having been told about the long war between the church and the Illuminati, and religion and science, we are grateful for the briefing, even if the cardinals already know most of the history. Since very few plot details in the film are remotely plausible, including its desperate chase across Rome, the history lesson is excusable. ![]()
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