One of the Worst Movies of the Year!

Rating: 2/10 (7 June 2006)

www.kajatm.com The best way to describe The Da Vinci Code is a movie that was made too late. Like Wyatt Earp to Tombstone and Deep Impact to Armageddon, The Da Vinci Code is just another version of National Treasure with one key difference, it being good. I was bored with the story line, bored with the acting and overall I really didn't care if they found the remains of Mary Magdalene or not. Being one of the 10 people in the United States that haven't actually read the book, I was expecting to be surprised by the storyline or to be at least entertained for the 2 hrs (closer to 3) but ended up watching my watch to find out when it was ending.
Now this is the normal part of my review where I go into further detail about the movie and what happened but I have pretty much wiped the movie from my memory so that isn't going to happen this time around. What I do want to focus on is who has kidnapped the real Tom Hanks? On a scale of 1 to awful, his performance was pretty much awful. What happened to the guy that was pretty much Oscar worthy just because his name appeared in the credits? It was like watching a cardboard cutout of Tom Hanks on screen. He showed no emotion, no charisma to the point that I thought that I was watching some Bizarro-World Tom Hanks playing the lead role. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Spielberg didn't direct this piece of garbage and Tom Hanks only puts in 110% when Spielberg is directing. This kind of performance can ruin a career and I hope that we haven't seen the best of Tom Hanks. Finally, what is with his hair in this movie he looks like one of those skater guys in high school that shaves all of there head expect the top part so it looks like you have normal hair but in reality it just looks like some creature crawled up on you head and died.
The whole story line tries to trick you into thinking that other things are going on and that the clues aren't that obvious. Unless you are about 3 years old you or you have drool coming from your mouth right now you can pretty much figure what is going to happen and who the link to Mary Magdalene is. Honestly, the more I think about this movie the more upset I am getting that I will never have those 3 hours back. I have an idea, when you make a movie try to make it entertaining; it makes it some much better for the viewer.
I would not recommend this movie to anyone. If you want to see a movie that is very similar and is well done even though the lead character is Nicolas Cage I would highly recommend seeing National Treasure. Maybe some books are better left to being books. From what I have heard the book is outstanding that was not the case with the on screen adaptation. Don't rent it, don't see it and please encourage others from making the same mistake that I did. But then again, what do I know?