Excellent film, critics are out of their minds for disliking this.

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2006)

I read the book and saw the movie. The book is beyond words and the movie portrayed it very well. I have seen it three times since its release on Friday and love every second of it. I have never had two and a half hours go by so quickly! I'm glad that it's doing well at the box office, and would be doing much better if it weren't for the church interfering. I have nothing against the church, but honestly it's a FICTIONAL movie and they should understand that. There is no need for the protests and all of this nonsense. It never says, "based on a true story," anywhere, does it? Therefore it makes it fictional. Aside from that I believe that Tom Hanks was a perfect choice for the character of Langdon. Ron Howard is one of my favorite directors and I'm glad he worked on this. Every aspect of this film was truly perfect, I see no flaws whatsoever. Of course as usual the book was better, but this is probably the first film I've seen that was this loyal to the original novel. I would recommend this for rather intelligent and open minded people. If the Christians want to protest let them, but don't let it influence your opinion of the film.