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[blunder1983]

Wow, what a poor movie. I guess if you hadnt read the book then you'd enjoy it but Dan Browns writing is so filmesque anyway it was like watching a movie i'd seen already, only the story and actors had gotten lots worse.

Sophie Neveu is cute though.

Oh and i'm not in the least bit religious so its not me being all unobjective

[C.M.]

"Da Vinci blows".....that's the best analysis on any topic I have read in a good long while.

[indytrucks]

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060517/REVIEWS/60419009

[Alias]

Only 21% positive reviews over at www.rottentomatoes.com

But I do not understand. All movie critics are a bunch of anti-Christian liberals.......how can they be dissing this movie?

[Rteacher]

Run-of-the-mill professional critics tend to be harshly critical unless they're paid off in some way. Because the book was highly successful, the film's promoters probably dispensed with payoffs...

I'm inclined to give more weight to (Pulitzer Prize winner) Roger Ebert's mildly favorable review - noted by "Indytrucks"... Here's a brief excerpt:

Yes, the plot is absurd, but then most movie plots are absurd. That's what we pay to see. What Ron Howard brings to the material is tone and style, and an aura of mystery that is undeniable. He begins right at the top; Columbia Pictures logo falls into shadow as Hans Zimmer's music sounds simultaneously liturgical and ominous. The murder scene in the Louvre is creepy in a ritualistic way, and it's clever the way Langdon is able to look at letters, numbers and symbols and mentally rearrange them to yield their secrets. He's like the Flora Cross character in "Bee Season," who used kabbalistic magic to visualize spelling words floating before her in the air.

The movie works; it's involving, intriguing and constantly seems on the edge of startling revelations. After it's over and we're back on the street, we wonder why this crucial secret needed to be protected by the equivalent of a brain-twister puzzle crossed with a scavenger hunt...
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060517/REVIEWS/60419009

[mithridates]

It just needed to be an hour longer. It was way too rushed and would have been better titled as the "Tom Hanks Crazy Puzzly Scavenger Hunt, Plus Action."
If they could fit a lot of extra scenes in on the DVD version to slow things down a bit it would be better. And there was way too much of them reciting verses while action was happening which made it difficult to concentrate on what they were talking about, and even worse for the Koreans in the theatre.
I didn't regret seeing it but I would only give it a 6. I'd watch it again if there was an extra hour of content added on.

[TECO]

Just finished watching it.

HORRIBLE flick!

The worst movie I've ever seen as an adult.

I didn't feel entertianed at all.

I fell asleep in the theatre and my girlfriend said I was snoring.

[huck]

So technically, you haven't officially watched it as an adult...

[hermes.trismegistus]

[flakfizer]

[Bulsajo]

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/davincicode




I would have expected a movie starring Tom Hanks directed by Ron Howard to get much higher than 'average' reviews. What have they collaborated on before? Apollo13 and Splash- immense commercial and critical successes.

[Hollywoodaction]

[Natalia]

I think I'm the only person in the world who hasn't read the book. Maybe I should see the film first, then go and read what I was missing out on.

I must say, Tom Hanks isn't really appealing to me.

[Hollywoodaction]

[Natalia]

I am actually thinking of dropping into What the Book and buying it tomorrow.

But will I enjoy the movie more if I watch it without knowing anything about how the story is 'supposed' to be?