Too long for too little

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 2006)

In the few days before seeing the Da Vinci Code, I had heard nothing but bad things about it. Critics found it a bore, a jumbled mess, and too slow for a film such as this. Going in I expected the critics to be wrong, like they usually are to my judgment. Well, they were a little right.
Halfway through the movie i began saying, wow, when will this end? Ironically enough i was basically praying for it to end, it just moved so slow. I'm sure Ron Howard had a reason for this, but I don't know what it was. the film could have easily been 30-45 minutes shorter and it would have only helped. However, even with its slow pace there's really nothing it could use to cut.
Along with the length i noticed all the supposedly big twists were either easy to predict or not as big as they wanted. One of them i was even sure they had figured out, because they'd said it earlier in the movie, i was certain. Then they revealed it at the end, and i was surprised only because they were just BARELY revealing it.
It wasn't necessarily a bad movie. Being a catholic, i wasn't offended (though i was shaking my head almost laughing at some parts). And the acting was top notch, just what you'd expect in a film by Ron Howard. If you can finish the movie without giving up on it because it seemed so slow, it was still a good movie. nothing great, but oh well.