I walked out

Rating: 1/10 (7 June 2006)

As a film-goer, I was unimpressed by the movie itself, I found it rather plodding and unrealistic; for instance, no security whatsoever in a museum housing priceless Da Vinci paintings. But as a Christian, I was insulted and disgusted at the prospect that Jesus Crrist would bed Mary Magdalen. The very idea that Jesus Christ would have slept with Magdalen is outrageous and offencive. Not just to Christians, but to educated rational people who would expect more from an otherwise good filmmaker like Ron Howard. What's next, a movie where Gandhi was a Nazi spy, or where Abraham Lincoln was a slave trader, or where Princess Di was a prostitute? Do movie makers have the dramatic licence to depict Princess Di performing oral sex on Paparazzi?
Going out of one's way to make something controversial, i.e., Jesus bedding Mary Magdalen, is not good story telling. Anyone can be crude or offencive or disgusting. There is a line between entertainment and disgust, and the Di Vinci code stepped over it.