Well worth the price of admission

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2006)

First let me say that I have read the book. Unlike many of the literature critics out there, I liked it too. Do I care what some critic that just wants to be cool says about the movie, I suppose I do because I went into the movie with low expectations. Instead, I was surprised at how true to the book it was, and how well crafted the movie was, especially the cinematography. I've read that there is no chemistry between Hanks and Audry Toutou, Is there supposed to be? In the movie, the relationship is not presented as a love interest, just two people thrown together in a brief adventure. If I have a complaint, it's that the Silas character was miscast. The accent was a little hokey and for some reason, he just didn't seem real, more like a cartoon villain. This must have been a pretty hard movie to script. The writers have over 40 million people that have read the book and despite what the movie critics and even the literary critics say, the Da Vinci Code is a great ride- again. Score another bulls-eye for Mr. Howard.