Loved the book hated the movie

Rating: 1/10 (25 August 2013)

I won't bother addressing the nonsense about religion. For me, the book, itself was very entertaining. Unfortunately, the movie failed on every level. In the hands of Ron Howard, an exciting story became a dull Hardy Boys mystery, and even the cinematography was poorly thought out by Salvatore Totino. One might have been able to overlook those problems had it not been for the dreadful casting by casting directors Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins. Audrey Tautou, in the role of Sophie, almost single-handedly ruined the movie with her unintelligible English and Tom Hanks was terribly miscast, in my opinion, in the role of Robert Langdon. The lesser characters were reasonably well cast, Ian McKellen especially. Sadly, they weren't the ones responsible for carrying the movie.