Via Boston Herald:
What did you expect? Crappy book = Crappy film adaptation. The boycotts didn't exactly help out either!
“The Da Vinci Code” or “Opus Dei vs. Opie” is not so much blasphemy as big, plodding bore. Dan Brown’s novel, a fabulously fun, page-turning, publishing phenomenon, has had the Vatican’s knickers in a twist since 2003, and “The Da Vinci Code” ’s second coming as a movie is further cause for chagrin among the faithful. The faithful fans of the book, that is.
Part scavenger hunt, conspiracy theory, riddle, art history lesson, theological mystery and chase movie, the film, featuring the redoubtable Tom Hanks as the Indiana Jones-like Harvard “symbologist,” promised to be a blast on the big screen.
Starting with a ritualized murder in the Louvre, the film pits Hanks’ longhaired, suavely dressed scholar Robert Langdon together with beautiful, young Paris police officer Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) against the forces of evil. Their quest is to unravel the mysteries of the Holy Grail and recover it.
For the book’s lovers, it’s all here: the 2,000-year-old conspiracy of silence concerning Jesus’ true nature, a murder plot involving the psychopathic Silas (Paul Bettany), the Three Stooges of albino-assassin-monks, clues to the mystery concealed within Leonardo Da Vinci masterpieces, secret societies and a conclusion that blows the lid off two millennia of religious tradition.
What went wrong? To quote Don Rumsfeld, “Stuff.”...
What did you expect? Crappy book = Crappy film adaptation. The boycotts didn't exactly help out either!
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