A lot better than I thought. ENDING IS ANALYZED HERE.

Rating: Null/10 (14 January 2007)

I had a very low expectation of this movie given the blandness of many of Howard's films and was pleasantly surprised. I guess being forced into making an action oriented film because of the nature of the book made Howard actually give some drive to this. Despite a weak opening sequence in which Hanks sends the entire French police force into the streets while he deciphers the meaning of the dead body in the museum, the movie moves quite quickly and has a different ending than the book.
The ending at first seems intriguing but then you think about it and its laugh out loud re-god-damn-diculous. Hanks and the chick from Amelie run around escaping death, being pursued by the cops because she's 'the last living link to Jesus', then A HUNDRED FRIGGING PEOPLE SHOW UP AT THIS SUPER SECRET PLACE THAT WAS ENCODED IN TEN DIFFERENT IMPOSSIBLE TO BREAK CODES. Which renders the entire movie pointless. If all these people knew where the final location was, then why the hell didn't they just tell her? They all knew who she was yet forced her to go through hell to find it? Retarded. Stupid. Annoying. But a good movie.