Originally posted at FilmCrowd.com:
Suprisingly unexciting, considering that the book it was based on isnearly 90% cliffhanger. Although it is quite faithful to the original,it has a hard time depicting the one thing that made Dan Brown’s workso compelling a read, i.e., the little historical details andconspiracy theories about the Catholic Church and the Priory of Scion.Instead, we have broad-strokes lectures from all the charactersinvolved, many of whom don’t go deep enough to be really veryconvincing.
The thing about Da Vinci Code the book is that, inall honesty, it’s terribly cliche-ridden. The one and only thing thatmade it worth talking about (and I suppose, making a movie about) isits potentially-belief-shattering subject matter. And if you take thataway, if you don’t give it as much screentime as humanly possible,well, then you’re left with a pretty predictable, average thriller. Andthat’s pretty much all this was.