Entertaining

Rating: 5/10 (11 September 2006)

'The Da Vinci Code' was a revolutionary book a couple and a half years ago or so. Although it looks more like a movie script than a novel, and every book written by Dan Brown has the same plot with very few changes, it was addictive and it charmed readers from all around the world. I don't think you can believe anything Dan Brown states, but it's an entertaining book... and so the movie is.
It isn't a great film, but you can enjoy it and you won't feel bored with it. The cast is really good, and I have no complaint to make about it. It's quite accurate to the book; however, I'm surprised that many things are changed. Most of them are just moved from one point of the story to another, but others are harder to understand. For example, Sophie is red-haired in the book, but her hair is black in the movie. There are only one criptex in the movie instead of two, and Langdon and Sophie don't need to visit the library in London because they find everything they need by using a cell phone. The most important omission in the movie is that Sophie doesn't apparently discover her brother is alive. People who have read the book can easily identify him in the movie, he's obviously the young guy at Rosslyn, but this important plot (which is for me as important as the Grial plot) is missing. Another change is that Robert and Sophie's relationship was deeper in the book. The final scene, however, is perfect. This is the end in the book, which I like (although many people dislike it) and it's perfectly depicted in the movie.