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My major problem with the film (SPOILERS)

posted 15 years ago by AndyMandyCandyRandySandyGlenn
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I'm absolutely poisitive that fellow posters will prove me wrong but I watched the film for the second time today and I'm actually struggling to see what effect the Robert Langdon character has on the plot of the movie. It seems to me that the plans of the villain go off pretty much without a hitch until the very end and its only because another character has discovered the secret and literally hands Langdon the information before dying that the villain is discovered at all.

Yes, he runs all over the city decoding clues and finding the path of illumination but ultimately all he actually does is save the life of one Cardinal, who will admittedly go on to become Pope, but in doing so does puts a hell of a lot of Italian police in mortal danger. He saves one priest, he causes the violent death of about 12 cops.

He's done her. He's done Mrs Lop-sided.

[–] shonoffilm 13 years ago

My take on this was that he allowed the least corrupted Cardinal to become Pope. Had he done nothing Ewan's character would have most likely become Pope or been close to it. So yeah, he didn't save many people but he did have a major impact.

[–] danavenell 11 years ago

If he wasn't there, the cop who discovered the plot could have told someone else (logically he should've told everyone as soon as figured it out and not confronted Ewen alone. Presumably McGregeors mental plan involved him somehow snatching the discovered bomb and making it to a convenient helicopted and faking that he saved the city - ni Hanks there and he would have still tried to do it. The female character didn't help either. Her and Hanks just meant loads more inncine people died as they chased around the clues.