Still, it's an odd kind of a slog that manages to keep you partially engaged, even at its most esoteric or absurd, despite an endlessly excitable choir and Hans Zimmer's pitiless score.

WSJ: Plot's Knots Bedevil 'Angels & Demons'

McLaughlin's coarsegrained script and David Buckley's pitiless score.

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