Exactly what I expected

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2006)

There was only a few spots in the movie that did not coincide with how it happened in the book. The few spots have nothing to do with the formation of the plot, but that is beside the point. The first one at the very beginning of the movie. Langdon is at a book signing when the police tell him about Sauniere. Almost every Dan Brown book starts out with a phone call in the middle of the night. Not a big deal and nothing to do with the plot, but it really bugged me. The second one was that they used some kid's cell phone to connect to the library when they really did go to a library and used a big database to search words like grail, blood, etc. Again, not important but wrong.
The thing that I missed the most in the movie was the information. The best parts of the book for me is when they are sitting around exchanging information. There is a scene in the book when they are at Teabing's house that consists just of them sitting around staring at each other and trying to think of different possibilities of a code for the cryptex. I missed moments like that. I also would have liked more explanation of Silas's background. I understood the flashbacks because I had read the book, but I'm not quite sure that someone who didn't read the book was going to fully understand Silas's past. They also left out things like the camera in Sauniere's office that the "Teacher" and Remy had been watching him on for months, maybe years.
Tom Hanks was terrible as Langdon. I missed the flashbacks to Langdon teaching the symbols of the sacred feminine to his class. I missed Langdon's personality. I missed the way he was able to crack a joke even though he was in an extremely dangerous situation. I also think that Sophie needed to be played as a brave and smart girl and I think the actress played her a lot dumber than she actually was. Every line she said was a question. In the book Sophie was a brilliant and cunning young woman. There was also a lot of romantic chemistry between Langdon and Sophie that I think could have been played up more. Silas was perfect. Teabing was more than amazing. Collet and Fache weren't the best, but I enjoyed them.
Overall it was an OK movie but the book is ten times better. I do suggest that you all go see it though.