By Selwyn Duke
This weekend I saw Angels & Demons, the controversial
film directed by Ron Howard and based on Dan Brown’s book by the same
name. The movie is a sequel to the equally controversial The Da Vinci Code, also directed by Howard and written by Brown.
The film is as fanciful as it is controversial. As it begins, we
learn that the pope has just died, and a Conclave — an assembly of
cardinals who will elect a new pope — is soon to commence in Vatican
City. Unbeknownst to the crowds and media gathered in St. Peter’s
Square, however, a great evil lurks among them. The four preferiti, the
cardinals most likely to assume the papacy, have been abducted by the
shadowy Illuminati and are to be systematically murdered, one every
hour starting at 8 p.m. Even more ominously, the conspirators have also
stolen a canister of antimatter from the CERN particle physics
laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, and have hidden it in Vatican City
along with the preferiti. And, once the mechanical canister’s battery
runs down — which is expected to occur at 12 midnight — the antimatter
will cease being held in suspension, come into contact with matter, and
detonate, creating a five-megaton blast that will destroy the holy
city. The clock is ticking.
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