
Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from Director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds, with strange symbols carved into his body and left around the spot where he died. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Sophie Neveu ... (Full plot summary below)
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Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from Director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds, with strange symbols carved into his body and left around the spot where he died. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), a gifted cryptographer who is also the victim's granddaughter. Needing help, Sophie calls on Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a leading symbologist from the United States. As Sophie and Robert dig deeper into the case, they discover the victim's involvement in the Priory of Sion, a secret society whose members have been privy to forbidden knowledge dating back to the birth of Christianity. In their search, Sophie and Robert happen upon evidence that could lead to the final resting place of the Holy Grail, while members of the priory and an underground Catholic society known as Opus Dei give chase, determined to prevent them from sharing their greatest secrets with the world.
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| Film ThreatMichael FerraroEven more frustrating than the trite dialogue exchanges, is the robotic performances delivering them. This is Tom Hanks' worst performance is years (maybe even his worst ever). Ron Howard's slothful direction is giant misstep from his previous effort ("Cinderella Man"), relying on techniques and hopefully he won’t repeat it again. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealMay not be without faults, including some unlikely action montages and occasional overacting, but boredom is not one of them. This thing is about as dull as street luge. |
| Eclipse MagazineMichelle AlexandriaThere are moments when this film, like Tom Hanks' hair, laid there like a limp noodle. Is this film, at times, pretentious, overlong, and boring? God yes. But it's also intriguing, suspenseful, and engrossing. I was sucked in. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinThe Da Vinci Code is exactly the sort of pot-boiling movie the readable but preposterous (and poorly written ) novel deserves. |
| New York PostLou LumenickRon Howard's splendid The Da Vinci Code is the Holy Grail of summer blockbusters: a crackling, fast-moving thriller that's every bit as brainy and irresistible as Dan Brown's controversial bestseller. |
| Movie Magazine InternationalMoira SullivanClipped at the wings in Howard's adaptation is a rich pagaent of esoteric knowledge and French history. Beneath every calling card is a better, truer story... the information is out there in the public domain for modern tropes, however twisted. |
| Kaplan vs. KaplanJeanne KaplanThere, I've said it --- I liked "The Da Vinci Code". |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovSome of my best friends have read and enjoyed The DaVinci Code, and I will do my best not to hold that against them. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxNot even Ian McKellan can bring it to life... and when Ian McKellan throws in the towel, you know the difficulties are too large to fix. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderWhere it really goes wrong is in taking itself so darned seriously. |