Wonderful

Rating: 9/10 (23 May 2006)

I thought this was a wonderful movie.
I'm not surprised by the number of bad reviews this movie has received, given it's controversial subject matter. While this movie is a work of fiction, it contains some very accurate information from Symbiology, and even paired with the several controversial theories that have been discussed for ten years if not more, I didn't see anything which I found outrageously offensive toward religious faith.
This is, after all, a work of fiction, and religious groups like Opus Dei need not worry that viewers of the movie will assume the group in the movie and book is exactly like the group in real life. Fictionalizations are part of literature and Hollywood, and 'secret societies,' and any exclusive group should expect to be misrepresented from time to time.
Then again, I may be biased, having read the book and having been exposed to the theories and speculations introduced in the book in Philosophy classes before that.
The Davinci Code is an interesting work of fiction, and a very entertaining one at that.
Casting was very well done, and even the changes made from the book to the screenplay were well thought-out.
Obviously Teabing wasn't quite as over-weight, or red-headed as in the book, but Ian McKellen was still perfect casting. As were Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou... And most everyone else appearing in the movie.
In closing, if you don't take fiction as an exposition of fact, you will enjoy this movie. But if you're looking for an explanation of accurate theories and conjecture about the life of Christ and the foundations each different church, you may want to hit up your local Public Library and do some research. If nothing else, you'll have some interesting reading for a while.