An excellent adaptation of an enjoyable book

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2006)

Reading the "professional" reviewers opinions of The Da Vinci Code reinforces my own opinion that the stronger the negativity of the critics the better the movie actually is. It slays me that some of the so-called expert critics lambasted this movie while admitting in their reviews that they didn't even bother to read the book (suggesting a reason underlying their unsophisticated reviews and lack of insight). Pleasing the dim-witted reviewers was far down the list of aims of the director, cast, screenwriters, and the other artists who created this film. Rather they aimed for, and achieved, the impressive goals of faithfully portraying Dan Brown's novel and creating an outstanding movie that is intense and intelligent. My hope is that people who missed this film on the big screen will ignore the biased and unimaginative reviewers and see this film on DVD. It is provocative and, even if implausible, shows wonderful imagination along with a different historical perspective that shouldn't be so easily dismissed.