Veni Vidi Da Vinci

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2006)

Having read the book (has anyone not?); it was difficult to experience suspense when you know the story but the movie covered the book very well and expressing the ideas and theories were the main focus of the movie - see MI3 if you want to see mindless action. Audrey Tautou was a charmer - more of her please. The controversy over the movie is hard to fathom. I think the Catholic church gets some bad press but then with secret organizations like Opus Dei what do they expect. The idea of Jesus being married and having a child is much easier to accept than that of the resurrection. Most of us never challenge the basis of our beliefs as nearly all of us are born into them via our parents and if it does nothing else the book and movie will arouse a questioning and maybe lead to either an affirmation or rejection of what we've been brought up to believe in without ever giving it a second thought.