a total disgrace to four reputations

Rating: 4/10 (6 January 2007)

I don't ask for total; simplicity of plotting in any modern film, but if there's anyone in the world who hasn't yet read Da Vinci Code he/she'd never be able to know what's happening until well into the . With the earlier scenes played out in murky settings it isn't until we get to Teabing's château that we are given a proper look at the two leading characters, both played with total lack of conviction . Teabing's and Langdon's reasoning of what must be happening is marred by some jerky flashbacks that look like clips from ancient epics.
Apart from miscasting of Hanks and Tatou the direction of their scenes up until the ending is lackadaisical.
The book for all its faults, is a great page-turner and the plot's unfolding in 105 chapters and epilogue moves smoothly inter-cutting scenes in a way that the film attempts but only jerks
Heaven preserve us from a further collaboration between Howard, Brown, Hanks and Tatou