Da Vinci code not so good

Rating: 3/10 (19 May 2006)

i just came back from seeing the Da Vinci code, i had read the novel and had high hopes for the film version but to my dismay i encountered a terrible portrayal of what could have been an award winning film. Throughout the entire film you felt as though you were being rushed out of the theater. Maybe its because of the fact that i enjoyed the novel so greatly that i am picking on the movie but i went with a novice to the story and they said that if i were not there explaining what was going on in the parts that Ron Howard left out that they probably would have walked out of the theater and asked for a refund. I was especially disappointed in the ending of the film, In the book Sofie, her grandmother, and her YOUNGER brother(the movie says he is older) are all reunited. In the movie, however, out of nowhere the entire priory of Sion shows up at Roslyn chapel in the matter of about thirty minutes, i found this to be no where near as fulfilling as the ending in the book. also when Silas is killed by the police he randomly says " i am a ghost" which if you haven't read the book you were left pondering what the hell he was talking about. Finally the Sofie in the book had auburn hair which is the same color as what Mary Madeline supposedly had which sort of foreshadowed the ending of the story but in the movie they gave her brown hair which wasn't bad but the auburn hair would have suited the ending even more. The one thing i did enjoy was during the movie i noticed that Sofie had a strange mole or birthmark on her clavicle in the shape of the sign that tea bing and Langdon describe as being the chalice when interpreting Da Vinci's last supper, just a cool thing that you should try to seek out if you decide to see the movie which i do not recommend.