Prob. OK if you didn't read the book

Rating: 4/10 (8 June 2006)

I finished the Da Vinci Code the day before I headed to theaters. Maybe this is the reason I was able to pick up on so many of the changes they made in the movie. Now I understand why movie adaptations cut certain things, and add others for more drama, suspense, or romance. However the book had all of those and the movie cut a lot of it to add scenes that didn't even come close to matching up. Sophie and Langdon's characters are dumbed down, not really knowing how to figure anything out on their own, relying on Teabing for just about everything. I knew the movie wouldn't be as good as the book, but the entire main story line of the book is changed. Sophie's grandmother and brother weren't supposed to be alive. The entire Priory show up at the end, they never say Sophie's brother is alive....... basically they took the biggest twist of all, that made for a great ending, and omitted it from the movie. I didn't think the acting was that wonderful, and barely noticed the directing. I almost wish they had gone with the R rating so they could show Sauniere's reason for splitting with Sophie and Silas could have been more evil.