It's a turkey.

Rating: 2/10 (6 June 2006)

Let me get right to the point. This movie is pretentious, poorly acted, and attempts to convey a muddled message on a complicated subject that is meant for serious scholarly consideration and not to be grist for another half-baked Hollywood potboiler. The movie attempts to use a theological controversy as the basis for a convoluted "who-done-it" story and in the process makes assertions that even for a work of fiction demands credible evidence. Now the producers of this movie have the absolute right to make a movie with a theological content, but along with that right comes the responsibility of providing hard evidence to back up the movie's fantastic and completely speculative assertions. Further, the characters in this movie are so utterly superficial, uninspiring, uninteresting and comic-bookish that it seemed that even the actors themselves knew that this movie is one big turkey. Indeed, this could be the worst movie in Tom Hanks's otherwise brilliant career. Indeed, perhaps the main character of the movie should have been Inspector Clouseau.