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The Da Vinci Code
Ooo ... it's here! Can you feel the excitement? Well no, me neither. The Da Vinci Code is one of those phenomena that I can't quite understand, and I suspect I'm in the majority for a change. The movie is pretty much as you would expect it to be, given its source material.
There's no easy summing up to be done here. Some of you will love The Da Vinci Code, some of you will hate it - you'll just have to read all of the above to make up your mind. Oh yes, I'm aware that you usually skip straight to the summing up, you sneaky readers. Well, to make sure you read all of it, I've hidden ten clues in this review to a location in Europe where you'll find a chest filled with twenty thousand pounds. Or that might be bollocks - you decide. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - not a lot for the action freaks. To enjoy this film you should: enjoy the acting and let the plot do its thing in the background.
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Jimbo has sort of said all that needs saying, however I just want to add that the most controversial film of the year turns out to be about as exciting as watching paint dry!
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Authors around the world must be seething when a fairly unremarkable author such as Dan Brown sells books in such obscene
numbers. The Da Vinci Code has no right to be one of the best selling books of all time - it's not nearly that good.
The movie both gains and suffers hugely from the burden of carrying these expectations. Many fans who were inspired by
the book's plot may well be similarly inspired by the movie. Conversely, people new to the story may well enjoy the movie
on a 
Credit where credit's due though, the actual construction of the movie - the cinematic mechanics and the performances -
are all high level and without the little inconsistencies and inaccuracies that we've come to expect in a movie like this.
I must admit that before researching this review, I hadn't associated the director Ron Howard with so many memorable hits -
he directed Splash, Cocoon, Willow, Parenthood, Backdraft, Apollo 13, Edtv, A Beautiful Mind and last year's undeserving
flop 
So a game of two halves then. If you read the book and liked the plot, then you may enjoy seeing it on the big screen or
you may be disappointed at the parts necessarily omitted so the audience can get home before the next ice age sets in.
If you haven't read the book, you'll need to be interested enough to follow the fast-moving plot, but not interested enough
to pick holes in it. The puzzle-solving is trite and boring - I like to do puzzles myself, but these are of the stupid
interpret-it-how-you-like kind. I won't give any away, but if one clue was, "look into our soul", they'll solve it by
saying, "maybe it doesn't mean 'our soul' - we're supposed to interpret it phonetically! Bend over!" Well, they might
have done if they'd played it for laughs. If they had, maybe I wouldn't have been terminally bored well before the two hour
point and maybe I'd have cared how it ended. As it was, I only cared when it ended.
