One of the best adaptations of a book I've ever seen.

Rating: 9/10 (21 January 2007)

The only reason I did not give this a ten out of ten was because I reserve that for "Citizen Kane." This wan excellent film. As to the controversy surrounding the film, wake up people. It is fiction, nothing more. Dan Brown never claimed that it was anything more and the people who attack the film tend to do so for religious reasons.
I am not a Tom Hanks fan, never have been, but having read the book and seeing his performance I could no more see anyone else in the part than I could part the Red Sea. Ron Howard assembled a fine cast with stars like Sir Ian McKellan, Jean Reno and Paul Bettany, not to mention Alfred Molina, all of whom gave finely crafted performances. I was not prepared to find a film that was as good as this one was after hearing a number of people run it down. I can only say they were wrong, wrong, wrong!