I just saw it tonight and I give it a 6 1/2 out of 10. It was a little too long by 15-20 minutes. Pacing of the movie was average. Tom Hanks acting was not really up to par compared to his other roles IMHO. after the movie, I heard some other movie goers liking the movie a lot since they did NOT read the book. Who knows, I might have given it a higher score if I had NOT read the book. Still worth seeing it on the big screen regardless.

 

Word. I turn on my TV and virtually every channel has something to do with the Da Vinci Code; I mean seriously, thing that gets me is how do they find these "experts?" Academia is going down the crap shoot. Besides, don't they know that Chuck Norris stared at the Da Vinci Code until it cracked?

 

My son and I liked it. It wasn't great but it was good. I had read the book but my 17 year-old son hadn't. He goes to a Catholic high school (he's not any religion) and I think he wanted to see how it to compared to all the religion he has learned in school, since he has to take religion as one of his classes every semester. Oh, my 19 year-old daughter saw it too, and said it was OK. She wasn't excited about it and said she doesn't care about religion so it didn't mean much to her.

I told my older Christian sister that we had seen it and she was almost angry that we had, and she said she wouldn't give her money to see a blasphemous movie. She wouldn't see Brokeback Mountain either.

 

read the book...loved the first million pages....couldn't put it down.....last 20 pages killed it.

i'll see the movie for the visuals....i know it'll be lame.

 

After reading the book I thought it was pretty close. The movie was a little long, but had to be to get all the twists and turns in there. My pastor saw the movie and shot it down as one of the most boring films of all times. Had the same problem watching the last Harry Potter film, because I didn't read the book. You get lost if you don't read the book.

 

I have not read the book, and I thought the movie was pretty good. I did see some of the History Channel's show about the book, so I was at least somewhat familiar with some of the secret organizations mentioned in the movie. Maybe that made it easier to follow, maybe not. But for whatever reason, I didn't have any trouble following the movie.

And hey, anything that forces people to think about their religion is good as far as I'm concerned.

 

The book was great. The movie sucked precisely because I read the book. I'm not sure why they picked a bunch of things to leave out. Seemed to me they could have upped the pace and included more (um, like the codex-in-a-codex and Sophie's brother). The director/editor makes a huge effort to add fire to the "controversy" by dwelling more on religious issues than the book ever did. And they did it at expense to the original plot!

When I was hearing the build-up to the movie I was annoyed by so many people who didn't read the book but made out its central theme as religious and anti-Catholic. IMO, the book was much more about the corporeal mystery (puzzles and danger) being solved than the religious backdrop (aside from, yes, slamming Opus Dei which nobody really cares about).

 

While I have my religious beliefs and am baptized Catholic, I was not threatened by the movie. Its fiction, big deal. The premise sounded kind of interesting.

My review? This movie is awful. So much preposterous stuff happens so many times in this movie it just becomes dumb and boring. Like the police never looking into the backseat of a car or suddenly solving anagram clues in ten seconds. Lame. At least the french chick was way hot.

I would compare this movie to the Nicolas Cage movie "National Treasure". Both have a treasure hunt plot filmed with lots far fetched loosely based historical clues. National Treasure does not make the mistake of taking itself seriously, and while I don't think that was a great movie, it was at least slightly entertaining.

I enjoyed DaVinci for an hour and then it became unbearable. It just is a movie trying to tell the viewer over and over how clever it is, until you want it to shut up and go away. I went with six people, five hated it, and one (my fiance and a big fan of the book) "kind of liked it".

One lady behind us started crying and clapping at the end. Get a grip, lady.

 

I think the movie followed the book the best it could for a movie..

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books are always better