Friday, 19 May 2006

The Da Vinci Code
Mood:  incredulous
Now Playing: Read the book? No. See the movie? Nope!
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So I saw The Da Vinci Code and found I agreed with the massive amount of critics that hate it, the Da Vinci Code is a dud. Even if I had read the book, I'm not sure I would have understood or liked the storys main "plot line". There is a lot of talk, which isn't bad if you are interested in what they were talking about, but in many of the talking scenes I wondered when the movie would be over. I know I could have walked out but I didn't because a) I was with other people and b) as boring as it was I had to see how it ended. I thought it was going to end at least two times before it actually did.

The best part of the movie, no not "the end", was Ian McKellan who made what could have been a cardboard character more interesting. I wish I could say the same for the normally great Tom Hanks. His acting gave me the impression that he was waiting for something else better to come along and in the meantime he did this movie. Audrey Tantou didn't impress me either.

So my final verdict, skip this movie at the theater and wait for it to come to video, and you have a free coupon to use at the video store.

Rating: C-. The rating would be lower if Ian McKellan wasn't as good.

Posted by citizennancy at 9:02 PM EDT | Post Comment | Permalink
Updated: Saturday, 20 May 2006 6:31 PM EDT

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