The real sin of DVC!

Rating: 2/10 (25 May 2006)

Ron Howard is possibly the worst director working in cinema today. I rather liked the book, The Da Vinci Code, and thought the plot was pretty much fool-proof. I figured even a hack like Howard couldn't mess up this story too much. Wow! The car chase sequence in Paris? What's with an orchestral score over that scene? Are we expected to RELAX into the chase? How much tension can a director suck OUT of a sequence? The one good sequence of the film - between Sir Ian and (wannabe Sir) Tom - is driven by Sir Ian being the only person on the set who actually seems to understand the words being used. Hanks, to give him credit, does actually try and raise to the occasion. This is not the worst thing I've seen Tom do (it's no Forest Gump!). The sin of this film is not the ideas of Brown's novel (or its antecedents), but that there is just no excuse for suck hackneyed film-making. Somebody stop Howard from making another film. Please!!!!