A Great Book Ruined-A Great Movie-NOT

Rating: 3/10 (5 June 2006)

There is credit here for Mr. Howard's lack of artistic talent in directing what could have been a GREAT movie. Instead, and in my opinion, the movie lacked depth, character building, was miss-cast, left out major components of the book and overall lacked artistic integerity! The reputation of Mr. Howard is clearly tainted by this spoiled attempt to make a 'passable' film rather than a great motion picture. The central characters of Sophie and Langdon totally lacked strong aggressive direction and the writing lost the true feel that the book gave you. The BOOK was a page turner, the movie was a so-so action drama that just did not do the job! I should have waited for the DVD!