Not That Bad.........Forget the critics

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2006)

This movie was honestly not that bad. OTWN is either not intelligent or needs to see some more movies before he writes another review. Number One the the movie was cast perfectly except for Tom Hanks, but thats okay because he doesn't hurt the movie, he certainly doesn't help it, but with the other characters he really doesn't need to. Yes the character of Robert Langdon is important but there are far more interesting characters in the book and they were cast to perfection. OTWN talks of the plot as if it were bad, maybe he should try reading the book or reading anything for that matter other than a critics point of view. The plot is great. Where this movie slacks is with simple corniness. Yes it's a Ron Howard film. Yes its bound to have some corniness. I think many of us expected this for those of us who didn't we should try other Ron Howard films (ie. Ransom). So with that being said Howard doesn't steer very far off of the plot of the book, some stuff was discarded but this was definitely expected. Even now everyone I've talked to seems to have enjoyed this film. I understand its easy to criticize a movie when Peter Travers bashed it in Rolling Stone and you think that you're in the majority. But please don't compare this to National Treasure, this was far more interesting than trying to steal the Declaration and then hike to the core of the earth. Disregard the critics this one time and check this film out if you like Dan Brown's novel or you simply like science fiction stories