Technically perfect, but not very suspenseful.

Rating: 6/10 (11 June 2006)

Ron Howard, is a master film maker. Tom Hanks, Jean Reno, Ian McKlennen, Jurgen Prochnow, Audre Tautou, couldn't have a better, more respected professional cast. The story is great. The editing is some of the best (possibly it's only Oscar nod, it isn't getting any nominations for wardrobe). But, I found myself looking at my watch four times throughout the movie, and the man next to us kept yawning. Was it over hyped? Did we expect too much? Or was it just not suspenseful, which oddly enough draws me again to the conclusion of "no comic element, no suspense." Hitchcock made the opening of wine bottles in "Notorious" suspenseful. This movie failed to draw any feelings of "a-hah" or "whoa", even with the blood and death and flogging and knights of Temple and priority of scion and orgies and car wrecks, etc. Just no ummph.
The conclusion from my wife and I is: It would have been a better movie if Jay and Silent Bob would have done it. "Like, whoa, dude! This DaVinci guy knew a lot of stuff, huh? And that Mary Magdalene babe was there all the time. WOW!"