The Da Vinci Code: Point-of-View of Someone Who Didn't Read The Book

Rating: Null/10 (22 May 2006)

Well, all the hype sure is enough to make you see what the fuss is about: the Vatican threatening it, calling it "anti-christian", people in India starving themselves in protests, countries banning it, and probably everyone's favorite: Tom Hanks' do.
If you ask me, all the hype wasn't about a Satanist film; it was about a good movie. I haven't read the book, so most was new to me, and I thought it was great. I mainly went to see it to see my favorite actor in the leading role, and I got much more than that.
Robert Langdon(Tom Hanks), a leading Harvard scholar, is suspected of murder, and Sophie Neveu(Audrey Tatou), tries to help him clear his name. But the process is actually much darker, a creepy albino monk named Silas(Paul Bettany) who painfully wraps and beats his body with chains as a sacrifice to Jesus Christ, is killing people after getting commands from a dark voice called, 'The Teacher.' In their adventures, Langdon and Tatou meet up with Sir Leigh Teabing(Ian McKellen) and the plot thickens as they discuss the fact that Jesus Christ may have been married, and had a child whose bloodline runs through today, with the Church covering it up. They go through adventures to escape Captain Fache(Jean Reno) in pursuit of accused killers Langdon and Neveu. They become increasingly close to finding the secret on who Christ's descendant is, and where his "wife" Mary Magdelene is buried.
I didn't go to question my faith, I went to see a good Tom Hanks movie; and that's what I got. I think it's a good movie to see during the weekends. I don't consider myself "evil" for seeing it, because it didn't waver my faith, I view it as entirely fiction. So to see a movie with action and albinos (not a normal combination), go see 'The Da Vinci Code.'