uninspiring adaptation

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2006)

Although this film never lost my attention it didn't really grab it either,Tom Hanks was unusually lightweight in a lead role that required far more gravitas,his co star leading lady Audrey Tautou was earnest and very pretty but again seemed more suited to light comedy, compare this to the far more impressive and weighty Name of the Rose, a similarly inspired tale of murder and mystery on religious battlegrounds and The De Vinci Code starts to look like a second rate adaptation in comparison, far too much emphasis is put on chase sequences and a voilent henchman when less would have been so much more, disappointing.