the greatest secret of our time

Rating: 8/10 (19 May 2006)

The book was great. It's even one of my favourites. My hopes where quite high when I went to see it. I mean I liked the movie very much, but there was still something missing. I expected a little more of it. Ron Howard is a great director. So I knew that it can't be a total disaster movie. The movie started off really quickly and evolved pretty fast. I doubted if Tom Hanks could handle the role of Robert Langdon. I thought they were so much different, but when I saw the movie I knew I was wrong. Hanks did a great job and looked more handsome than he's ever looked. One of his best roles lies within Langdon. Audrey Tautou was brilliant. I've never seen her in a bad movie. I think that her person helped to put out the best of Sophie Neveu. And I think that Leigh Teabing's character (played by magnificent Ian McKellen) was really the first one who brought in some relaxiation. In the meaning of jokes. First the movie seemed to be a bit of tense, no real laughs, but Teabing and he's three questions seemed to be the ones that people really laughed about. Good Brithish humour never dies apparently. And I also must mention that Paul Bettany really was Silas. Although I would've made him maybe ever more pale. I don't even need to mention how good Jean Reno was. However I would've liked to see more of the Remy character. He was not given so much role here. Somewhere in the middle of the movie I started to mix the book and the movie. And things got a bit different, but I didn't let myself disturbed from it. I understand that it's a difficult job to transform such a complexed and informative book into a movie and certainly you can't put everything in it and you usually have to change something. The one thing that bothered me a bit was the ending part. If the beginning was fast, then the end was a bit too slow and it got a bit boring even. And again,everything wasn't quite like in the book. And they didn't do IT:( And what I really have to say is that they visually did a wonderful job with the secret of "The Last Supper". Technology is a good thing! I certainly hope that there will be more close to the book scenes in the DVD near future. It's not necessary to read a book before watching the movie, but if you have read it, the more exciting things you know. And don't let yourselves disturbed for goodness sake - it's just a fiction! A brilliant fiction!