What a bunch of hogwash!

Rating: 1/10 (14 October 2007)

I can't believe all the rave reviews on this website for this movie. I read the book first (which I thought was a typical potboiler wrapped up in religious mumbo jumbo), and still had difficulty following this far-fetched nonsense. As a film, it's too disjointed, too darkly lit, and way too long. After all the hoopla surrounding the book, this film seems to have thrown a wet blanket over the whole thing  we (thankfully) hear nothing about it anymore. Tom Hanks had a similar effect on a big bestseller when his film of "Bonfire of the Vanities" also landed with a thud. I think the main problem here is the script. It's just not cohesive or convincing in any way. Even the shots of the Louvre and St. Sulpice were wasted. Overall, not my idea of entertainment.