You've been had!

Rating: 4/10 (2 June 2006)

What a load of tripe has been written about the book and now this film. Dan Brown has successfully pulled a fast one and he should be congratulated for that. Ha ha ha! OK, now what did I think of this movie? It was passable but deeply flawed. So, we're supposed to believe that the character Neveu is both 'in on the secret' but completely ignorant of it at the same time? Eh, what? Whose story is this? The code breaker (Langdon)ought to be the minor character but he is made the centre of this piece. As a code breaker he too is a mass of contradictions...he recognises the symbolic meanings of all kinds of things before he spots the significance of his own part in the unfolding story (duh, a bit slow there methinks). Clearly a number of the characters (Silas included) have a set of noxious beliefs that cause them to do dreadful things in the name of their 'duty' to them. Beliefs have to be expressed in words...and words can be manipulated...and facts can be manipulated...and coincidental facts can be conflated...and rhymes can be made...and stories are told...and did you know who Leonardo of Pisa was?