Da Vinci Code

I saw the Da Vinci Code over the weekend and here are my thoughts on what I saw. I was a bit apprehensive about how good this movie was due to the huge amount of bad reviews but I did notice that the critics were saying some good things about this movie then turning around and giving it a score that seemed incongruent with their review. IMHO, this movie was pretty much meh. It was better than what critics scored and much better than MI3 which I saw a week earlier but it isn't a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. I had read the novel a few years back so I knew what the general plot was before seeing the movie and I have to admit, the movie was pretty faithful to the novel with only minor changes which I would assume was made for time constraints and pacing reasons. Even so, the movie seemed to drag on a bit. The cast was pretty good, especially Audrey Tautou (yum) as Sophie Neveu and Paul Bettany as Silas. Ian McKellen was brilliant as Teabing and Tom Hanks was pretty solid as Robert Langdon. I don't want to go to deeply in to the plot but for those who haven't read the book or seen the movie (all 3 of you), it begins with the murder of Jacques Sauniere, the curator of the Louvre, who dies with strange markings and cryptic codes near and on his body. Langdon, a Harvard Symbologist is implicated in his death. Sophie Neveu, a cryptographer with the french police (and also Sauniere's estranged grand-daughter), helps Langdon escape/evade custody. Together, Langdon and Neveu must decrypt the strange symbols and codes that Sauniere left behind to discover a damning secret that the church has kept hidden for hundreds of years while being pursued by the french police, and a deadly albino monk working to protect the church. I don't want to get in to the controversy surrounding this movie but it looks like this is the blockbuster of the year with the 2nd largest weekend box-office takings (Worldwide) ever and the the largest weekend international takings of all time. [IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y238/drakhon/dc.jpg[/IMG] Cheers!