A great film!

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2006)

Before watching the Da Vinci Code I was really skeptical. I had read all these awful critiques and I believed that the film had to be taken with a grain of salt. Who can forget Scott's review for the NY Times? "A Code that takes longer to watch than read". After watching it I have to say that it was a great film and I shouldn't have been that concerned. Ron Howard did a great job, Ian McKellen was absolutely fantastic and the rest of the cast was really good as well (I quite liked Bettany and Molina as Silas and Aringarosa). Yes, there were changes in the plot and yes, little and not-so-little details were omitted. The thing is that instead of ruining the film, these changes gave it a freshness, an originality that was much needed by the people that have read the book more times than they can remember during the last couple of years, like me. The characters stayed true to the books; as did the things that mattered, so I didn't really mind the little changes. Overall, I give it a 9 out of ten.