The Da Vinci Code - an okay piece of fiction

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2006)

With all the fuss made about the book's so called revelations and now the film pro porting to bang around fiction as if it's the truth, its a wonder that TDVC was ever made at all.
Firstly, the Catholic Church need not worry their heads about this one. Like the book, its a slightly hamfisted action movie with a bit more talking than action and the script is tedious. Tom Hanks doesn't quite convince as Robert Langdon, a role that in my opinion could have gone to Hugh Jackman with little trouble and Audrey Tautou is okay as Sophie Nouveau trying to make some sense of the situation she finds herself in. The other characters are quite flat. Only Ian McKellen comes out with any credibility and he is only playing the nice Englishman turned nasty he played in Gods and Monsters. Paul Bettany is little more than a scary looking monk who ends up being pitied rather more than booed for having to do the dirty work of his 'saviour'. Other people in this film, like Jean Reno are sleepacting or simply in it to pay the mortgage.
A not terribly good book made into a barely interesting film.