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Director Ron Howard is not as reverential to author Dan Brown's ecclesiastic potboiler as he was adapting The Da Vinci Code, and the result is a fast-paced thriller wherein symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) must race against time to prevent the destruction of the Vatican by a group claiming to be the church's ancient enemy, the Illuminati. If only Langdon weren't such a boring hero... '''
Adapted from the revolutionary memoirs of Ernesto (Che) Guevera, Steven Soderbergh's ambitious, two-part, four-hour-plus biographical drama eschews the grandiose Hollywood/David Lean treatment and approaches its controversial Marxist protagonist (a restrained but committed performance by Benicio del Toro) on resolutely intimate terms. ''''Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the instantly healing, adamantium-reinforced superhero gets his own full-blown 150-year-spanning backstory. It makes for a perfectly adequate superhero comic-book movie, all explosions, chases, gunfights, sword fights and blood feuds. But the coolest thing about Wolverine in the X-Men movies was his mystery, and that's what Marvel set out to delete here. ''' (Reviewed by Roger Moore.)See the full content of this document
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Globe, Grant Park, Polo Park, St. Vital. 14ADirector Ron Howard is not as reverential to author Dan Brown's ecclesiastic potboiler as he was adapting The Da Vinci Code, a...See the full content of this document
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