What a waste

Rating: 3/10 (21 May 2006)

**** no spoiler **** I believe it was a good friend who first brought Dan Brown to my attention, and as I always do  I chewed up everything he wrote book by book. In spite of all the controversy that surrounded the "Code" I found Brown's style gripping and couldn't let go of the book. One can not let slip the fact that the guy seems to include every detail he feels required to enlighten the scene. What you end up is a Novel that not only grabs you by the throat and doesn't let you sleep at night, but also teaches you a few things along the way.
All this certainly showed in this movie. You could feel Goldsman was struggling with how to fit everything in "ONLY" two and a half hours, and you could somehow imaging Ron Howard sitting on the director's chair trying to make Hanks seem believable in all this mess. It's a damn shame that what they wound up with was a complete mess that will probably deter people from actually going to read the book.
I saw a few people here that voted and commented after watching this flick without reading the book. To all of you out there all I have to say is  READ THE BOOK FIRST, because this movie is REALLY bad in comparison.
The actors deliver a non-convincing performance, and the conclusion at the end (for those of you who haven't read the book) is lost in a scatter of this badly written screenplay.