While Dan Brown's book Angels and Demons relates Robert Langdon's first high-speed murder-mystery chase across important cultural and religious locations in European capitals, and is hence the prequel to the Da Vinci Code, the timeline has been reversed for the movie. Some of the more outrageous stunts that Brown pulls in the book have been scaled back, too, and Ewan McGregor's character is no longer Italian, but Irish. Other than that, this is a very faithful adaptation, which unfortunately took away the suspense for me (Cissy had forgotten who would turn out to be the bad guy and was genuinely surprised at the end).

Discovery of the day: Nikolaj Lie Kaas as the assassin.

6 points