The Da Vinci Code Review

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2006)

Upon seeing the Da Vinci Code, I entered having read and enjoyed Dan Brown's successful novel. Whilst I knew the story line of the film, I was still expecting a good film to entertain me nevertheless. After watching the film I do not think it was as good as I expected. I think if you had not read the book it may have been more gripping, but for me I was never gripped as I was when reading the book.
I think the film on its own was still a good film that had good individual acting performances, in particular Paul Battany who played the character Silas. The two main chatracters played by Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou were also individually good however they lacked the chemistry together to make the audience get sucked into their characters' lives. I also think the film should have been made as it represents what all good films should be made for: making an audience think and leave the cinema pondering thoughts posed by the film. I think this film does this and on that front is thus successful, I left the cinema thinking and disscussing more the ideas put forward in the play.
On the whole I think the film was good but I expected it to be a little better. But that is expected for such a hyped film, where the audience enter thinking this will get 10/10 marks, but I give it 7/10.