Nice

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2006)

A murder happens in the Louvre, Paris. The police is called to the scene and quickly after that a Professor in ancient symbols is called to the scene as well. What follows is the hunt for the killer and the chase after a lot of mystery, straight into Christian history.
I guess most of us know the story by now. It's been hyped to high heavens from the moment it was known that a film would be made from the book. So I won't go into the story any deeper here.
That said... I haven't read the book yet. I did thoroughly enjoy the film - it shows many analogies to films like National Treasure in that it follows a trail of frail clues through history. It's also a fairly well designed slow thriller, that sadly is just a little too predictable towards a couple of the final "secreties". No bad though, it still managed to kept me bound to it for its full length, and since that length is 149 minutes that is pretty good.
Scenery is cool. All around. Settings are done wild, and the acting of Paul Bettany jumps out. His character is played out insanely well.
In the end, I can say I thoroughly enjoyed this film. With some luck I'll get the book tomorrow, and then I'll see if that is better, like most reviewers who did read the book seem to be agreeing about.
8 out of 10 dark secrets.