Corrected entry: The Camerlengo takes the antimatter up in a helicopter to save others from the explosion. However, if the blast is large enough to destroy Vatican City, it could have stretched vertically far enough to reach the ground. It would also certainly destroy any aircraft in the blast radius. It is unlikely that a religious man would choose to move the canister, and therefore "playing God" by choosing who lives and dies.
Tailkinker
20th Jun 2009
Angels & Demons (2009)
20th Jun 2009
Angels & Demons (2009)
Corrected entry: The first Cardinal is supposed to be executed at 8 p.m. However, the setting is light, and does not look at all like evening.
Correction: It can easily still be fully light at 8pm at the right time of the year.
3rd Jun 2009
Angels & Demons (2009)
Corrected entry: If the illuminati were not truly still active, then the Camerlengo would have had to solve the same puzzle as Langdon. Not Likely. And an extreme cover to get the nuances correct if it were a cover story. If the illuminati were still active, the Camerlengo would have to be a member. Why at the end of the film was no one therefore concerned to go after them as well?
Correction: This is an opinion, which is not generally a solid grounding for a mistake. The Camerlengo has full access to the Vatican archives which would give him all the information he would need to work out the Path of Illumination. According to the book, he finds the brands in a classified section of the archive, plus a great deal of other information, which could simply have included the locations of the Altars. Even if not, he has everything he needs and a lot more time than Langdon had to research it.
30th May 2009
Angels & Demons (2009)
Corrected entry: The "bomb" comprises anti-matter suspended in an electromagnetic field; while anti-particles have charge and can be suspended like this, anti-matter doesn't and can't. Even in the event of it being called anti-matter as a character mistake, the amount of energy required to keep such a large amount suspended would far exceed the energy that could be produced by a battery, therefore the whole concept of a "bomb" that could be carried around is false.
Correction: Use of a fictional technology in a fictional film is not a movie mistake.
29th May 2009
Angels & Demons (2009)
Corrected entry: It would take 2 billion years to make just 1 gram of anti-matter in a best-case scenario. According to CERN, if they annihilated all the anti-matter they have ever created, there would only be enough energy to light a light bulb for a few minutes, so an anti-matter bomb is fanciful to say the least.
Correction: Fanciful, yes, but being fanciful is not a mistake. This is a fictional universe, not the real one. In the version of our world portrayed in the film, they have the capability to make anti-matter in the quantities required.
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Correction: What, the same "religious man" who killed the Pope, arranged the deaths of a scientist and four senior cardinals, then finally killed the assassin that he brought in to do the other executions? At what point in the film did you get the impression that he's deeply concerned about the sanctity of human life? The Camerlengo's done his research, he knows what the bomb's capable of and he's intelligent enough to ensure that a great enough altitude is reached for those on the ground to survive. If a few people do end up dying in the blast, on the ground or in an aircraft, he'd regard it as a small price to pay to restore the Catholic Church to his vision of what it should be, given what he's done already.
Tailkinker ★