Cardinal sin

Angels & Demons
12A, Nationwide

Angels & Demons is based on the book by Dan ‘Da Vinci Code’ Brown and is directed by Ron Howard and stars Tom Hanks and all I can really say about it is this: if there is one movie you don’t see this year, do make it this one. Or, as you’ll never read on the poster but is true nonetheless: ‘Magnificently missable. Do yourselves a favour’. At first, it’s so preposterous and so bad it’s almost OK, kind of funny, but after 20 minutes even that wears thin and then it hits you: there are still two hours to go. How, how, how is it to be endured? Mid-way through, at the press screening, I even heard one reviewer emit a noise of the sort I had never heard before. It was part-yawn, part-anguished-howl-of-boredom, and went, ‘AEEOOOWWWW.’ Now, it wouldn’t do to name names, for fear of reprisals but, yes, it was me.