I was only about to say it is NOT as bad as the book...

Rating: 6/10 (9 August 2007)

I will not go into any analysis of the content and even serious evaluation -- there has been more than enough of that, just say that: 1) a mediocre triller scheme does not benefit too much from the religious dressing -- neither movie nor novel, it just does not hold together; 2) as for me, the movies is better -- while reading THE BOOK I -- a) was fighting with the words "thick as a whale omelette" booming in the back of my head, joined by "ignoramus", "pinhead", etc. b) thought that already "Il pendolo di Foucault", one of the sources of this plagiarism, was a bit boring, but that was a novel, while Mr Brown is asking for a four letter word .. I mean crap, c)was able to recognise mirrored writing and word "APPLE" one page before the characters did figure it out, and that's saying something as I am not a native speaker (just look how dodgy is this comment). To do it some credit I can only say that this is not the worst book I have red (still may be the worst among those I have actually finished reading).
To cut it short: For me it is a feeble, but reasonable MOVIE on it's own right, it is the weedy BOOK that gives it a bad connotation.