What happens when you approach to the deepest secrets of the Catholic Religion?

Rating: 7/10 (5 March 2007)

This is a movie of 7 stars based on a 10 stars book.
This great novel has been constructed all with real historic characters, real places and real pieces of art, but the events are fictitious. What makes you feel a movie in which your religion basis are questioned?, well, for me as catholic, it made me open my eyes, and finally love more the faith and ethical values of it. The historical data of the life of Jesuschrist can have been manipulated by men in past years, but the feeling of having a more human Christ as a basis of our religion is beautiful.
The movie is the story of Robert Langdon, an expert in symbols (Tom Hanks) and Sophie Neveu, a cryptologist (Audrey Tatou) in an investigation about the murder of the Louvre's museum curator; these events start a quest trough codes, symbols, clues that are meant to resolve one of the most uncovered and deep secrets of the catholicism. The polemic facts shown here to the religion and specially to the Opus Dei have been matter of large discussions, research and opinions after the book was published.
This movie is far from the quality of the book, and some parts of the book are changed, it could have been a better movie, maybe if a different director had took the challenge. But taking these polemic subjects to the screen is memorable, for a time when you have to open your mind, and hold to the really important things of life.
Tom Hanks has a very bad acting, Audrey Tatou does bad too and Jean Reno is pretty normal, Ron Howard directing is terrible!
I recommend that if you haven't read the book, then don't watch this movie, because it can spoil it. But after that, watch the movie, so you can place visually in the art pieces, places, churches and all the things that you constructed in your mind while reading.
7 star for this movie, great locations, filming and composition of the characters, but lack of heart and passion to go deepest in the subject, and for not achieving the level of an incredible book.