Yawn

Rating: 2/10 (19 May 2006)

I give this movie one point each for featuring lovely Amelie and a Smart mini car (30s). Every other single aspect of this concoction was entirely disappointing. Having read the preceding Dan Brown novel - not the DaVinci book itself - I'd been expecting the same type of hot-air page-turner quality that leaves the reader both restless and barely satisfied, yet constantly curious till it's all over. Like cheap booze, essentially. Now have that transferred to the big screen, and in this particular case it didn't work with me. At all. The movie's pages didn't turn fast enough in order to compensate for the well anticipated pseudo-babble. The way it works OK in the book, I mean, on plot and line-of-thought basis. That's not to say that settings were not changing. They were changing a lot, still failing to create pace of any substance. Plus the imagery was simply too dark for 2.5h, which almost made me fall asleep. The set of actors did not help either. Since this movie is supposed to concentrate on a puzzle of artifacts, they were meant to be cliché (and acted quite up to it, I'd say). Therefore, the audience wasn't relating to anyone of the lot, some people were laughing at a "crucial" scene near the end (no pun intended). Oh well.