Mini-Review: The Da Vinci Code

Saw the film last week. I had read the book a while back. Liked the book quite a bit even if the ending felt a little rushed to me. The movie? Same thing. It followed the storyline quite closely. I felt Ron Howard did a good job with the adaptation.

Some have said that Hank's performance was flat. My take on this is that he was playing a university prof. How dynamic did folks think he would be? My main beef with the film is the omission of saying what profession Sophie Neveu (Tatou) has. She was a cryptologist. She worked as an officer and decoded stuff as part as her job. In the film, re was only Langdon's ignorant Watson the whole movie. In my book, that's a wrong move. Other than that, the film was pretty good. I don't know why some critics are being so hard on it.

Funny thing - when we got out of the movie place, there was a pamflet on the window of our car from a religion group offering folks a chance to win $10,000 if we helped disprove the lies in the DaVinci Code book/movie. Then this past Saturday, I was at a wedding and when we walked out of the church, there was a sign on the community bulletin board advertizing a discussion on the DaVinci Code called Truth or pure fiction. Why are religious groups so threatened by this book. If I believe in something, why would some author's rendition of history have any bearing on what I believe in.

I give this one 7 Grails out of 10.