DVC - Cool and cryptic or complete crap?

Rating: 7/10 (18 May 2006)

Me and the missus are just back from the pictures in Adelaide, first night of the Da Vinci Code.
I enjoyed it as had read the book but think if you haven't seen the book it would be too fast-paced to follow that easily. The codes and riddles that puzzled you for pages and pages in the book were solved in seconds on film and that was disappointing.
Also I didn't like the actors in this so much. Sir Lee Teabing (Gandalf) the English aristocrat was superb; the albino monk was good too. But the French girl was too young and Tom Hanks instead of being the heroic and highly academic Robert Langdon was just a bumbling buffoon on screen.
Real shame as the story is fantastic and just spoiled a bit on screen by the pace.
Verdict: Enjoyed it but still a mediocre 7/10