Da Vinci Code

Rating: 7/10 (19 May 2006)

The movie, while good, did not capture the gripping, fast paced action I experienced in reading the book. After reading the first few pages of the book I just had to finish reading it. The movie moved along smartly, but not at the Indiana Jones pace that I was expecting. Tom Hanks didn't fully convince me that he was Robert Langdon although he didn't appear as Forest Gump either. While, in my opinion, the book was outstanding the film was merely good. I would recommend the film to people who have read the book, but not to those who haven't. The film does not do justice to the book. The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction and should be read or viewed as such. It is entertainment pure and simple. The book and its forty million readers are tributes to Dan Brown's story telling expertise. The movie left out the anticipatory angst to which the always pressured main characters were subjected in the book.