justice wasn't served.

Rating: 4/10 (21 May 2006)

i loved the book, i read it three times, each time as gripped as the last. the movie wasn't, by any means, good. it lacked everything that made the book so special. it just felt like the story was just banged out, leaving intricate details to the side, details that made the book so great.
the casting of Tom Hanks as Prof Robert Langdon, was, i thought, a mistake. a much better choice would have been Kevin Spacey. Tatou as Sophie was great, Sir Ian McKellin or course was fantastic.
there wasn't anything memorable about this film. nothing stands out. the story as we all know is a great one, but the movie let me down. maybe its because the emotions and feelings one experiences whilst reading such a book cant be portrayed on film because on film its presented to you, whereas a book leaves the pictures and perceptions up to you.
one particular theme that was omitted was the relationship Sophie had with her grandfather. this is a major theme in the book. one that is reiterated hugely throughout the story. but the love that is presented to us in the book is totally over looked in the movie, i felt that the film relied on the sensationalism of the storyline too much, which in turn completely over shadowed hugely important aspects of the novel. one such aspect is the absence of the second cryptex, the second cryptex was to represent a secret held with in a chalice (womb). the password to that cryptex was "sofia" which again pushes the theme of love between grandfather and grand daughter.
another is the ritual of female worship in the basement of Jacques Sauniere, this is a pivotal point in the book that backs up the powerful theme of the divine feminimity and it is totally rushed in the movie. the detail of it in the book really hit home the importance of the sacred female
all in all i was pretty let down by it, and so to save myself from any further disappointment I am going to disassociate the book from the movie.
go to see it, and you can judge