Gross mis-justice

Rating: 4/10 (24 May 2006)

Little more than half the content of the book is portrayed in the movie. They seem to have just picked out the pieces that they liked best while also inventing others eg. her super-magic Jesus power to heal robert's claustrophobia. Teabing has become nothing more than a comic element with the audience laughing at most of his dialogue.
The worst thing has to be the scenes with Rossyln Chapel. The interior may be the church in question but the exterior sure ain't. For one it's a semi-ruin in the process of restoration (doesn't actually have a roof at present) and secondly does not sit atop a hill in a near jungle-like forest, it's about half way down the valley with views of the surrounding villages easily seen. How do I know this? I live in one of those villages, I've been to services at the chapel and it looks sfa like that. At the cinema in near-by Edinburgh where i went to see it the audience could be audibly heard to gasp when the scene appeared on screen with people even proclaiming "Where's that?". Such a fuss has been made over the use of the chapel in filming that i find it insulting that a CGI landscape has been used.
Apart from that, it's an OK film. Better if you haven't read the book I suppose. Bit of a non-brainer but easy to eat popcorn to.