I suppose I set my expectations too high.

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2006)

I only finished reading The Da Vinci Code in April, and was really pumped for the movie. The trailers were thrilling, and Tom Hanks and Ian McKellen sounded perfect as Langdon and Teabing. Unfortunately, I never liked the choice of actress for Sophie Neveu, because she wasn't even remotely how I pictured her. I suppose I was sort of determined not to like Audrey Tautou during the movie, but she did a good job despite my judgment that she wouldn't.
I guess I just thought the movie would be better. A lot of important details in the book were changed, like the fact that Jacques Saunière was not Sophie's grandfather at all, but only assigned to protect her. A large amount of excellent bits from the novel were cut out, including the intense code breaking of the first cryptex on the plane, which hinted at Sophie's bloodline.
Of course, there is only so much you can take from the novel to put into the movie. Almost 500 pages of reading are hard to fit into a two and a half hour film. Will I buy it when it comes out on DVD? Most likely. It was enjoyable, and I always tend to be analytical of books turned to movies when I see them first (which is why I hated the third Harry Potter movie for some time).