Spectacular film craft.

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2006)

This spectacular film might turn out to be Ron Howard's magnum opus. Certainly it's his best piece of work to date and stands head and shoulders over anything he has thus far done, a body of work that is by and large quite good.
A mixed genre murder mystery, political intrigue thriller and drama woven into Catholic Church religionist mythography The daVinci Code is a physically beautiful film, graphically eye-popping with an excellent music score, superbly filmed throughout England, Scotland and Paris there's enough eye-filling scenery here to alone cover the price of the ticket. The nicely woven script engages from the very first scene and remains gripping to the stunning, final half hour reveals that are tiered like a wedding cake. There are, of course, some contrivances knit into the continuity but one can easily forget them and simply enjoy the film. Kudos for the entire cast, bad guys, good guys and pure nut-job guys all in all this great film receives my highest recommendation.
Wonderful! Well done Opie!