***I loved the film I enjoyed it I would see it again.***

Rating: 8/10 (20 May 2006)

Well I have just come in from seeing the fi-lum and I thought it was very good. I enjoyed it! I enjoyed it so much I have now seen it three times, I will be buying the DVD.
Just to think Tom Hanks stood in my foot steps when in Scotland. No shots of Edinburgh. Still Roslyn seven miles south of Edinburgh Scotland looks great inside and out.
I like the book also. So its not Charles Dickens so the fi-lum is not Gone With the Wind. Its a good thriller like the Thirty Nine Steps man gets murdered: man goes on the run; man seeks answers, mystery solved.
Puzzles to be solved, now the holy of holies what on earth was the Maltese Falcon all about and does it matter? Its a good film too. Like the Da Vinci Code.
Nothing wrong with the fi-lum but as always the book is always better, but at 603 pages its shortened for the cinema. I'll give it seven and a half out of ten Its no more far fetched than Mission Impossible. Well more believable actually. Any changes from the novel are for the better in my opinion.
I simply can't see what the critics have a problem with, hell its just a movie people like the Thirty Nine Steps. What the critics loved was BRICK which was lousy. God now that was a waste of money. Seems to me if the critics love it; I will hate it; if they don't like it I will love it, and most of the paying cinema going public would agree with me. Rather than the snobs who don't even pay for the price of admission.
Yes I recommend the Da Vinci Code to everyone who likes a good thriller. Its faction {part fiction part fact} like any Fredrick Forsyth novel. Dan Brown only took some true facts some true history and wrote a fictional story a thriller which makes a very good film. D.Brown did not write the historical facts! Facts are facts history happened or it did not, he only took the historical facts with some myths and added a fictional story. No one attacks Christian beliefs. Who cares if Opus Dei does not have monks? Who cares if the pyramid has 666 panes of glass or 669 its fiction. The Vatican is not attacked. Robert Langdon does say the Priory of Sion was a hoax. "That's what they want you to believe". If people can't follow the unfolding story its because they have the attention span of a goldfish.
Its not in my opinion if you have faith but do you have faith in what old men wrote hundreds of years after Christs death?. This is not a theology documentary but a fictional story and a damn fine story at that. See the movie and enjoy the story its very very good. Only the MTV 30 second attention span generation would have a problem and those who can't read subtitles. French people speak french to each other and not English. _____________________________