Boring book, boring movie

Rating: 1/10 (27 October 2006)

The Da Vinci Crap is one of the worst books ever written and Dan Brown is a lousy writer. Besides from creating a conspiracy theory that is so far fetched that its laughable, the actual story itself, is so simple it could have been written by a 12 year old kid. The characters are vaguely described and boring and I for one don't care what happens to them.
As for the movie, they have done everything wrong.First of all Tom Hanks, my god, the man couldn't be a worse Robert Langdon even if he tried. In the book he is described as a tall, handsome, middle aged goodlooking man. Tom Hanks is too old, he looks like a dork and he is ugly. David Duchovny from The X-files would have been perfect as Langdon. He is goodlooking, a better actor and not a pain in the ass like Hanks. But he is not a star like Hanks and I bet Howard never even considered anyone else besides his old friend Hanks for that part. Then they cast Audrey Tautou as Sophie. Sure she is pretty but probably the worst acting I have ever seen. And there is no chemistry between her and Hanks what so ever. Paul Bettany is excellent however as Silas, the only interesting character in the book/movie and Ian McKellen and Jean Reno are also good.
Then, Ron Howard, for reasons unknown decided to change things from the book and add new scenes. Like the scene on the plane where Sophie confronts Silas. what is the point of that scene?? And the way Silas dies, probably Howard thought it should be more dramatized. And then there is the ending which sucks!!! The real ending at least worked in the book. But I guess Howasrd must have thought to himself: I've already cast the wrong actor for the lead, so Im gonna ruin the ending as well.
They should have made a movie out of Angels and Demons instead. It has a better story, more action and more interesting characters. Still bad because Dan Brown is the author, but much better than The Da vinci Crap.