Books & Movies

Rating: 6/10 (23 May 2006)

My initial impression while reflecting on The Da Vinci Code was that this was not the best material for a film. The pacing was very uneven and it was nearly impossible to build any suspense. Tom Hanks appeared to be sleepwalking through most of it, except for spurts of expertise. Ian McKellan was the most entertaining part of the film, though even his performance was ...juvenile? And then there were the Herculean leaps over holes in the plot. Whatever did become of Alfred Molina's character anyway? What I came away with was that this was like the comic book version of Dante's Divine Comedy. Some material is best experienced in a medium that lets you define and describe the story in a more personal way, like ...a book?