At the climax of the file I though "So what?"

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2006)

Having read the book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", by Baigent,Leigh & Lincoln plus many related books the idea of Jesus Christ having been married to Mary Magdalene and having decedents is not new to me. The novel "The De Vinci Code" was an excellent thriller but the film is a bit of a damp squib. And the acting was sub-standard, especially given the past films of the main stars. No doubt the film will be a big hit at the box office as the basic plot will be a great interest to people who have not heard of it before. But I though the film did not do justice to the book or to the "sang grail" theme. I wonder if the untutored viewer understood all the links between the Knights Templar, The Priory of Sion (PS), and the "Rose Line". The idea the PS safeguarded the secret from presumably the death of Mary Magdalene to the present day and set up the Knights Templar in the 12 century, who incidentally are supposed have discovered the secret whilst excavating in the Temple Mount, tends to make the whole plot more well rather even more holy. Where was the "holy grail" , that is the body of Mary Magdalene between the time of her death and the building of Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland by the St Claire family in the 15th Century? The "cryptic" (otherwise known as the keystone) in the film surely could not have been made by Leonardo De Vinci as the clue inside refers to Sir Isaac Newton who wasn't born till after De Vinci died. I will not even comment on the Opus Die. The penultimate scene takes place is Rosslyn Chapel, southwest of Edinburgh, wherein Sophie Neveu, the heroine, is informed by Robert Langdon the hero that she is in fact the current last living descendant of Jesus Christ. It was some how an anticlimax and my reaction was basically "so what", which of course makes the 2000 years plus of secrecy somewhat unnecessary. Of course many people will say that the idea affects Christianity, and especially the role of women within the church, but I cannot see how. Indeed I only bother to write this review about this film as the theme is loosely connect to a far more important "secret" (see film The Egyptian). That secret being the creation of God by Akhenaton, now the implications of that being fully revealed would change everything! So all in all I think 5 out of ten is fair.