A great film from Ron Howard

Rating: 8/10 (9 August 2006)

Howard's The Da Vinci Code is a great thriller, written, directed and acted very well, that is if you are an open-minded movie-goer. Tom Hanks is perfect in the lead role and i liked Audrey Tautou a lot in the female lead. The supporting cast is filled with great performances, the most significant one coming from Paul Bettany but also Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina were very good and Jean Reno was also very good as a french officer. The story is a bit controversial, a murder occurs inside the louvre and clues left behind lead to a religious mystery protected by a secret society, meanwhile the Church is trying to kill everybody who knows of this mystery in order to prevent the non-Christian thought from spreading, the thought of the possibility of Jesus having been human and had kids, a family line, etc... The film is done pretty well by Howard, written very well by Goldsman (Cinderella Man, A Beautiful Mind), i also liked the cinemtagraphy from Salvatore Totino (Cinderella Man, Changing Lanes, Any Given Sunday) and the score from legendary Hans Zimmer. All in all i think those who hated this film, compared it to the book too much (no film is better than the book, perhaps only A Clockwork Orange, even Godfather book is better than the film). This is a must-see for anybody who isn't offended.---IMDb rating: 6.5, my rating: 9/10