Looking forward to the remake!

Rating: 5/10 (21 May 2006)

Although this movie got its quality moments, it totally lacks the punch that the book gave us. It's far from as fast-paced as the book and it ends up in a rather slow moving chatterbox thriller. Some of the plot has been watered down and what's left is played out by uninspired actors. Tom Hanks has been one of my absolute favorite actors, but in The Da Vinci Code he hugely disappoints. He's in some kind of auto gear in this movie. He doesn't give all and there's few and far between the the typical "Hanks moments" in this movie. But I won't blame him for the embarrassing role, as little in this movie's chemistry seems to be right. However, kudos to Ian McKellen for his role as the eccentric Leigh Teabing. McKellen plays his role so well, he doesn't seem to be even remotely affected by the, at times, poor scripting. Appropos the script. I won't give away any details, but there's some plain awkward moments in this film. Like a scene (that's - thank God - not in the book) on a London bus featuring a random guy on the bus and his mobile phone helping Robert and Sophie finding the "knight a pope interred". And let me put it this way; the movie's ending is ruined.
This movie is hardly Oscar-material and I highly doubt I would recommend it to anyone. Instead, I'm hoping for a remake in 20-30 years time because the book really deserves a better movie than this!