Poor recreation of an amazing book

Rating: 3/10 (26 May 2006)

This movie was truly a disappointment to me. It was very very long, and hardly stayed truthful to the book. It felt slow the entire way through, and was an overall boring night for me. The one thing that really ruined it is the plot twists written into the book were not incorporated very strongly. The book made them very suspenseful interesting, while the movie merely placed them in just to follow the book. It would present the "red herring" and before you can think about it cast it aside. The acting was decent, but I felt Tom Hanks was a poor choice for Langdon. The actress who played Sophie actually did do a pretty good job though. The one thing that I feel was done very well was some of the sets, were exactly as I imagined them while reading the book. I almost felt as though I had seen the scene before which was an astonishing feeling. Overall, it definitely could have been better and in my opinion is not worth the money to see. For those of you who loved the book I suggest not ruining it for yourself, but if you must then rent it when it comes out on DVD