Sounds strange... and wrong...

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2006)

Let's start saying I'm a catholic, but I read the book and found it well written and very enjoyable, that means no religious prejudice is forcing this comment into an hypercritic direction.
It is a quite obvious comment that "the movie is less valuable then the book", but in this specific situation it is the only thing you can say when getting out from theater. You get an unpleasant impression that nearly everything is wrong or, at least, is non at the book level, starting from the cast (consider Tom Hanks is normally good and I personally like him, but he is wrong choice for Langdon and he also gives an under his level performance) and going on with some dialogues (you will find quotes from the book that are not really needed and then some needed quote that is missing).
In the end, I must say it is not a completely bad movie and a couple of my friends found it pretty good, but it gets bad if you think what kind of raw materials and worldwide expectations they had in hand to forge it. I give them all a 6 just because I'm sure the book was great (as a novel, not as an historical text) but I also have to admit that it was not simple for sure to be translated on the big screen, especially if your audience, having read the book, is already aware of all the main revelations in the plot.