An extra star is earned by Paul Bettany and Ian McKellen (as the nutty monk and the wealthy fruitcake respectively), who somehow manage to keep the film from lurching completely to a halt. When you boil away the hype and hysteria, all that remains is a pedestrian murder mystery that isnt sufficiently challenging or scandalous to raise anyones hackles. Perhaps a better title for The Da Vinci Code might be Much Ado about Nothing. Director Ron Howard relentlessly patronises his audience with CGI flashbacks to The World Of Ancient History, and the whole thing goes on for hours and hours. Da Vinci Code, The (United States, 2006) A movie review by James Berardinelli. At one point, they get saved by a pigeon. The plotting, which seemed endearingly silly on the page, is snortingly preposterous on screen: our heroes tumble po-faced from peril to peril with insane regularity. "THE WHOLE THING GOES ON FOR HOURS AND HOURS" Its too convoluted with voiceover and a constant barrage of historical information.
Hanks looks and performs like a lump of dough in a wig. As a thriller, the film never gets your heart racing. Tautou is very, very bad, and clearly uncomfortable. It just lies there on the screen like a $100 million mattress. For all the prestige production values and A-list stars, The Da Vinci Code is practically catatonic. By that reckoning, Da Vinci ought to be an excellent film, since the prose is awful and the plot is tremendous. It is a truism that good books make bad films, and vice versa. Movie title: The Da Vinci Code: Release year: 2006: MPAA Rating: PG-13: Our rating: Summary: Rote and ironically accurate adaptation of a book for which accuracy is but a passing concern. Yes, it's The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's hungry monster of a bestseller, adapted for the silver screen complete with albino monks and cranky French detectives. Following a byzantine trail of clues, they gradually uncover a massive religious conspiracy. Stop me if you've heard this one before: when a curator at the Louvre is murdered, it's up to grumpy professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and perky cryptologist Sophie Neveau (Audrey Tautou) to solve the mystery. Based on the international bestselling book by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code begins with a murder at the Louvre Museum, and the amazing adventure that Robert.