The standard "not as good as the book" does NOT apply here.

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2006)

When I read the book "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, it was the last piece in the puzzle of my opinion in that the Christianity is a fraud. Sure, the book is a "fiction-book", but anyways I am sure that lots of the "information" it contains are actually facts, on one level or another - in some relations or another. Some of them are even proved.
Back to the movie.
I really had huge expectations to the movie, and it did not disappoint me at all. I have taken notice to some of the "commentees" here at IMDb who claim lack of chemistry between Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, and I could not disagree more. Sure, that is an individual question, but for me was like sparks on the screen! I am a type of person that if I read a book and really loved it, it still has to be visualized for it to go all the way to "up there". And that is probably why i loved this movie so much. To get (almost)everything from the book on to a screen at the cinema made my day! Especially at the end, when Langdon kneels over the so-to-be grave of Mary Magdalena, and we can see the actual grave beneath him was astonishing, and something I can never get out of any book, ever. It sent shivers down my spine! Also the settings and characters was like I had imagined them to be from the book.
This is probably the best movie I have ever seen, but if it had not been for the book and my passion for it, I am sure I would not liked it half as much.