Poor treatment of a potentially fascinating subject

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2006)

I'm writing this without having read any other comment, just after finally watching the movie, which I had excitedly anticipated.
I found it to be just a regular thriller, and not a very good one at that.
The script, in my opinion, was the main reason the movie was so "busy", with so many unconvincing events happening.
The photography and shots were pretty great, but that is just about it.
The albino 'killer-angel" was played way over the top. Tom Hanks remained an unknown throughout the film, with the same expression on his face for the whole duration. Audrey Tautou and Tm hanks had zero connection, and zedro chemistry, which seemed absurd, given what they went through and why. that alone trivialized the whole film.
There was time allocated for secondary scenes in the movie, disproportionately to their importance-ex. the self-flagellation of the albino monk.
The concept of "Deus ex machina" is way over-used, and the whole thing gave me the impression that it was a summary of a very long book, not knowing what to keep and what to abandon in the script.
It was a conseptually mediocre movie,which disappointed me, to say the least.