A Great Suspense Thriller

Rating: 10/10 (4 September 2013)

There are few movies or books that are as controversial as this one, and this one doesn't even have nudity or much swearing in it. Dan Brown did a wonderful job weaving a fictional story with historical facts to tell the story of The Da Vinci Code. Some of the historical facts are true, some of them have been interpreted in such a way in order to tell the story. The Da Vinci Code is of course a novel and now a movie.
I love this movie because it has suspense, murder, mystery and history. I love the historical twists that have been added in order to tell this story. I love how Dan Brown tries to tell the story by showing that Jesus could have been married and had children, or at least one child, and that that child survived to adulthood and had children and so on. It also tells of the story that that child's bloodline, Jesus's bloodline, survived to the present day.
The first scene I like is the scene where Silas (Paul Bettany) hunts down Jacques Sauniere (Jean-Pierre Marielle) and kills him. The reason I like this scene is because after Silas shoots Sauniere, Sauniere leaves a message that only Robert Landon (Tom Hanks) could decipher. Landon does so with the help of Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou).
My next favorite scene is when Bishop Manuel Aringarosa (Alfred Molina) is trying to get the Shadow Council to give money to pay for the information that would lead to the Holy Grail. It is surprising that Aringarosa and his fellow council members are aware of what the grail actually is, Mary Magdalene. Aringarosa vows that once he gets the location of the grail he will destroy all documents as well as the sarcophagus of Mary Magdalene.
My most favorite scene is when the heir of Jesus is revealed to the audience as Sophie herself. I like this scene because it shows her lineage and those of the group that has protected her line for over a thousand years, including the man she thought of as her grandfather, Jacques Sauniere.
I know this movie and the corresponding book has drawn the criticism of many critics because it calls into question the divinity of Jesus. I ask, though, why couldn't Jesus have had a wife and a child and still be divine?
I give this movie 10 out of 10 stars.