A good movie for a CableTV afternoon?

Rating: 4/10 (18 November 2006)

Based on Dan Brown's (plagiated?) best seller and intended to be a blockbuster, this movie is just another Hollywood pulp fiction. It's a film that, despite having good actors, setting and covering an interesting topic, is a commercial flop. Abusing of successive twits (and of the spectator's gullibility and patience), this longish movie contains scenes that are quite hard to believe, and would be credible only if it were an animated cartoon (e.g. the guard who's blackmailed by Hanks and Tatou in the Louvre). Tom Hanks, the protagonist, perhaps interprets one of the worst roles of his career, and there is little connection between him and Audrey Tatou as a couple. She, incidentally, has a mediocre performance too. In short, The Da Vinci Code, a high budget film with good actors, is long winded, banal and mediocre. A good movie for a CableTV afternoon?