I know it's a cliché but....the book was better.

Rating: 7/10 (10 August 2006)

I read the book before I saw the movie and loved it. It's easy reading page turning pulp fiction. The fact that so many people take it seriously is amusing. The protesters I passed at the theater seriously need to spend time doing something more worth while.
OK I'm agnostic, but I think Christ was right in almost everything he quoted in the bible. If he is the son of god or not is not going to be determined by a Hollywood movie. A lot of people believe it and that's not going to change.
What I guess I liked about the book was I didn't know what it was about before I started reading it. Knowing what the "Holy grail" is before seeing the movie probably took a lot of punch out of it for me. Also knowing the ending probably did too. BUT this has to be the least effort I've ever seen out of Tom Hanks. It seemed as though he's reading the lines off a teleprompter with ZERO emotion. Bland very bland. The movie followed the book almost too much. Thus my imagination is always better than what they can throw up on the screen. So I gave it a 7 only because I was entertained, although it did had a few eye rolling moments here and there. Plus there were quite a few filler scenes that could have been cut. But I paid $2 so I'm not complaining....