One should have settled with reading the book

Rating: 4/10 (29 June 2006)

Overall it is a pretty good picture, pretty good photo and acting and so on, but it really misses something.
Since finishing the book e few days before I saw the movie I thought it would be a great movie since the entire book is built up pretty much like a movie with it's plot, speed etc. But no..
Big parts of the plot depends on the code-breaking and the mind-puzzles around the brotherhood and DaVinci's artwork, but a lot of it is skipped in the movie -not seldom good for the viewer since the big picture is depending on the small, but smart, details.
Sure, you need to skip a great deal when you convert a book to a film, but here I feel that it goes to far. One needs to get to know the characters better in order to fully understand their roles and meaning, but you don't get any time for that.
And the ending doesn't by far get to you as in the book. Sorry, just a 4.