what more to ask for

Rating: 7/10 (22 August 2006)

This movie for which the Greek Orthodox Church expressed its' formal disapproval and urged people not to see it, thus magnifying their natural curiosity and making more popular, is a movie I very much liked despite that the opinion of the critics internationally and in Greece was in general negative. I had read the book without which I think is rather impossible to understand the movie. The mental problems of the book have been obviously simplified for the needs of the movie but in general I found it considerably close to the story line of the book. The best actor was Ian MacKellen who was the perfect choice for Teabing. The movie was bringing forth the ideology of the book concerning the hotly debated religious issue whose writer claims that is based on true facts. The movie and the book have generated a huge amount of secondary literature which explores every conceivable aspect of the problem on which no reason exists for to dissertate here. I think that a movie is watched as a recreative experience and not as a medium of expressing views on metaphysical problems which after the French Revolution have become matters for the individual conscience in the Western world at least. As a form of sophisticated entertainment I found the movie very satisfying, shooted in fine locations, involving fine works of art, beautifully built churches, action and surprise, clever dialogue, adventure, timeless and insoluble questions, the city of light= Paris, fine actors- what more do the public and critics want? More explicit sex?