Could have been much better.

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2006)

After reading the book "The Da Vinci Code", which author Dan Brown made into a fantastic suspense thriller, I expected the same thing from the likes of master director Ron Howard. Alas, I was disappointed. Not that this is a bad movie, but unlike the book, this version seems disjointed, and not that Tom Hanks or the other actors did a bad job, but they've seen better days. It seemed to me that the script was rushed, which isn't surprising considering they had to condense a long book down into 2 hours - but because of that, the movie suffers, with more explanations necessary. That said, one interesting method Howard employed was to see Langdon's as he "sees" (aka highlights) the numbers and letters (a method Howard used with Russell Crowe's character in "A Beautiful Mind"). However, another method Howard employed, that of flashback, was too in your face, as if the audience needed to see what was being explained. Oh well, a 7 out of 10.