tom hanks was a wrong choice

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2006)

It could have been a masterpiece! Ron Howard is one of my favorite directors. But he was disappointing this time. Turning a book like Da Vinci Code into a movie is not an easy task, but people like Ron Howard are not supposed to fail! There is too much information and a movie cannot be too long. There is also a certain pace people expect from thrillers.
But adapting a book doesn't mean you have to start and end the way the book does!! I would have given audience a quick 5 minute curtain raiser on the subject without killing the suspense, before plunging into the main story-line...this also could have helped Hans Zimmer who just couldn't liven it up in the first half an hour (not sure if Horner would have succeeded either, the way Howard chose to shoot it)...the movie never really picks up..McKellen rescues the movie now and then. Tom Hanks looks half dead! if it can be of any consolation to 'the church', the movie is not going to be remembered as a masterpiece.