never judge a book by its movie

Rating: 6/10 (20 May 2006)

I just got home from seeing the DaVinci Code. It was good but.......yes a caveat. I'm not sure why Ron Howard added material to the end but it would have been a much better and stronger movie if he had just let people use their imaginations. Up until the last 20-25 minutes the movie was going along swimmingly and, I thought, pretty well done. It had taken most of the important scenes from the book and translated them fairly well to screen. But then he re-wrote the ending. What was that for? Sophie ended up more of a pretty face than the intelligent cryptographer she was in the book but still the character was good. I thought Tom Hanks did a pretty fair job but it was Paul Bettany that made me jump in one scene. He did a really scary villain in Firewall and his Silas in this movie was just as scary. All in all this was not the best movie I've seen this year but it was OK.