Much Ado about Nothing: Boring, Silly, and Predictable

Rating: 2/10 (7 June 2006)

I did not read the book, so I expected to have some suspense and excitement in the film. Instead, I found an endless repetition of Keystone Cops police car chases (of course escaping in the nick of time), boring boring lecturing on this that and the other bit of history and background (is this a movie or a lecture?), and downright silly scenes (the Bishop and Silas lying side-by-side like a scene from a grammar school play, or replaying the way they escaped from the private jet, in case we might not have thought that they'd get away). I could hardly keep from laughing at some scenes as I was reminded of the Monty Python skit of "Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition". Finally, as far as the great climax to the mystery of the movie, that Sophie was the last descendant of Mary Magdalene was the obvious conclusion about half way through the movie.
As regards the great religious controversy, since it is fiction, the film didn't bother me much except for the scene where Sophie makes fun of Jesus' walking on water, somehow implying that he didn't do it either. The film reiterates that Jesus was divine, having risen from the dead, since they don't seek His grave, which would obviously be of higher importance than Mary Magdalene's grave to believers or detractors.
To sum it up, the film was much ado about nothing (did I mention it was boring?)