All Right, But Not a Bad Watch...

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2006)

I thought everyone was being a little too harsh on this movie...it is true that it did not live up to the expectations of mine and many; considering that it has a great cast, an interesting story to live up to, and a great director, yes...however, i still thought that overall it was fun to watch. I personally felt that in the beginning Tom Hanks may have overacted a little bit (just because what took a 100 pages in the book to accomplish happened in about 4 minutes in the movie and therefore the story wasn't properly developing), the scenes may have been a little choppy and perhaps it was just straight forward with nothing really spectacular happening as far as props and Hollywood effects go, but eventually I began to appreciate it...
I read the book and personally think that while the book is better than the movie, it still is a satisfactory story in comparison with 'Angels and Demons,' which is in fact the book that I thought they should hav made into a movie FIRST, because 'Angels and Demons' is a much better story. Aside from this, I liked how Ron Howard kept real in most instances with Langdon's character and tried to develop him in this story (ie: Landon's flashback to falling in the well, his Mickey Mouse watch, etc.) Though I felt that you needed to know Langdon's character well enough to see all this...
overall i'd have to give the movie a 6/10, but hopefully this movie will be re-made in about twenty years with some more enthusiasm then this version possessed...
btw, Audrey Tautou is really cute! and Ian McKellen probably did the best acting in the movie