Ho-hum!!!!

Rating: 5/10 (21 May 2006)

Like most of the free world, I read the book and carefully followed all the plot twists but at the end of the day, admitted the book was a good read but that the underlying pot was pure fiction and did nothing to shake my faith. I wish I could say the same for the movie.
This was not a great movie but I felt somewhat entertained for a couple of hours. The story arc was so chopped up to the point that I doubt I could have found it coherent unless I had read the book. On the other hand, I think Tom Hanks played the Langon character with the same level of understatement and rumpled non-aplomb I would expect from a boring university professor of symbology (if there is such a thing). He has definitely lost his boyish character.
Methinks this should have been named after Shakespeare's "Much Ado...."