disappointed

Rating: 7/10 (24 May 2006)

I would just like to express my disappointment for this movie. I am an enormous fan of this book, encouraging people to read it and enjoy it as much as I did. Last Friday night, with my tickets in hand I sat in the line for the theatre for 1 1/2 hrs so that i could get the best possible seat, only to find that my favorite book had been butchered. The ending was completely wrong (like all those documents that had been protected for hundreds of years would just be kept behind a rope that says private), and numerous important parts of the book were excluded (the first cryptex etc). Furthermore, the made everything seem to easy for it to be found, or deciphered, or broken. That was part of the essence of the book that they had to work hard to crack the codes and really think and use their brains. and the fact that teabing and langdon were fighting in the grail explanation scene (which was actually quite magnificently done) NEVER REALLY HAPPENED, it made langdon look like he was too religious to ever think that this could ever be plausible. I thought Paul Bettany did an amazing job of Silas, he really became his character, as did Audrey Toutou, however Tom hanks performance was to say the least disappointing. I did not believe him as his character.