The Da Vinci Code....WOW!

Rating: 8/10 (4 January 2007)

I haven't read the the book yet, so I can't compare it to the book yet. But, I can say that this is a good movie that will be more effective with surround sound and in complete darkness.
Tom Hanks (Apollo 13, The Green Mile, The Terminal) and Audrey Tautou (Nowhere to Go But Up) are absolutely perfect. They really make the movie seem real. Also Ian MacKellen (X-Men trilogy) and Paul Bettany (Firewall, A Beautiful Mind, A Knight's Tale) are also brilliant. Bettany's performance is absolutely mesmerizing and hypnotic.
The beginning was kind of disturbing, when Silas (Bettany) was doing some ritual (I forgot what it was called)...it was pretty graphic. Also, the discovery of the secrets of Da Vinci's paintings were pretty amazing. Are they just coincidences? Or are they real...? The middle was also thrilling and amazing, which was the part where the secrets of the paintings were revealed. But after the middle part, the movie just got kind of boring and somewhat confusing, which is why I gave this an 8, and not a 10.
All in all, a great movie that is very thrilling and hypnotic...all up to it's thrilling surprise ending...you won't be able to take the eyes off of the screen!
Violence/Gore: 7/10, Sex/Nudity: 4/10, Profanity: 5/10, Drugs/Alcohol: 3/10
My MPAA rating: Disturbing Images, Violence, Some Nudity, Mature Themes, Language, Brief Drug References, and Sexual Content
My Canadian rating: Violence, Mature Themes, Disturbing Content