No. Just ... no.
Look, I'm sure someone out there enjoys Dan Brown's weird little angle of regurgitated cultural history with a bit of conspiracy thread tying through. But really, these are very silly stories. Admittedly, the last film, "Angels and Demons", kinda had a bit of fun with it (including killing off a few cardinals in grand guignol ways and having a climax that involved anti-matter) but this is back to something largely dull. Ron Howard attempts to liven things up a bit by giving the hero demonic visions but ... it's Ron Howard doing demonic visions, it doesn't exactly startle anybody. There is no pretense that Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones are at all age-appropriate for a romance plot, which helps slightly, and Iffran Khan shows up as a shadowy fixer with a nicely sarcastic lot of dialogue, but all in all, this is a fairly dull retread in which people run around very pretty European locations to spout exposition to each other but rarely to actually do anything interesting.
Skip it.
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