Dan Icd Voice

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2006)

I never read the book,but came to the film via the BBC "Chronicle" programmes 35 years ago and "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" Which Dan Brown did acknowledge by even giving one of his characters Sir Leigh Teabing an anagram for one of the authors of The Holy Blood!! I thoroughly enjoyed the film.What the critics got wrong is that the story is the most important element,the characters take second place.Why does there have to be a romance ? It may be interesting for people who see the film to read the "Holy Blood" and find out who the real Sauniere was,and how an impoverished priest from Rennes Le Château a small village in the foothills of the Pyrenees became a mega wealthy philanthropist for his local community for what he discovered in his church. The Da Vinci Code,great entertainment and mind provoking.