Very, very toned down

Rating: 7/10 (28 May 2006)

This movie has gotten tons of press and has gotten religious leaders to denounce it over and over again. But the fact is, this is a whole lot more toned down than the book. In the movie, it portrays Robert Langdon as being a religious person. The book didn't even come close to that. He was definitely an atheist in the book. So there are two reasons why I think that these religious people shouldn't be going so crazy about the movie. First of all, it is obvious that this is a work of fiction. How many times does that have to be reiterated? Second of all, this movie doesn't really have any huge religious implications. The religious parts of the movie are just minor things, and not central to the plot line. In fact, when Teabing is explaining how Mary Magdalene and Jesus were married,Langdon even says, "It's a theory, Leigh, just a theory." I can't imagine Dan Brown's Robert Langdon saying that. The movie's Robert Langdon is really just a creation of the director.