The storyline is contradictory, just like the book

Rating: 3/10 (25 May 2006)

I confess that I was hoping for a bit of alteration from the story in this film, as is the case with many films, but unfortunately there was little deviation. My problem with the storyline is not a religious argument, so much as the fact that the entire point that Dan Brown's story is trying to push is very contradictory. First of all, the Da Vinci Code follows the notion that Christ was not divine, he was merely human - his divinity was a contrivance of the Catholic Church. Secondly, the holy grail is not a cup, it is the bloodline of Christ and Mary Magdalene. Fine, let's run with this theory for a moment. If Christ was not divine, then should we (humanity) care who he was? If we don't care who he was, then why should we care who Mary Magdalene was or their descendants? Again, I'm not prompting a religious debate over which theory is right, I am saying that Dan Brown's argument does not make sense. While Brown is trying to argue that truth in religion lies in the "divine feminine" as was often believed in ancient pagan (and I do mean as in non-Christian, and not in the satanic sense of the word) religions. Even if this is the case, the divine feminine was based around the miracle of fertility, conception, and reproduction - not around one woman, which brings us back to the question of what was the big deal about Mary Magdalene and her children if she was married to just another mortal man by the name of Jesus? The point is, Dan Brown wrote a book that contains a conspiracy theory that makes very little sense if reason is applied to it. To make this into a movie would merely put faces on the characters of this weak argument - which is precisely what it did. The conclusion is that this is a mediocre film about a mediocre book.