Another Ron Howard Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2006)

Saw Da Vinci code 18/5 . . . loved every minute. Cannot believe the detractors who claim there was laughing and leaving involved. I believe these apparent efforts to sabotage Da Vinci's release will guarantee its success at the box office. Ron Howard's usual genius made great flashback scenes, the best handling of essential information I've seen. As for a comment about dialog presented as in soaps with maximum repetition, there wasn't a word wasted in this script. Just to see all those places I'd only read about was fantastic. One problem was a blue-eyed 'albino'. Couldn't understand this. Perhaps the whole loses a fraction of a point for this, but the rest was excellent. At first I wondered how Tom Hanks would manage to 'be' Langdon, but in true Hanks style, he was.