Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months you’ll know about all the hoo-hah being created about the Da Vinci Code movie.
I went to go see it on Saturday and kind of enjoyed it, having read the book I was intrigued to see how Ron Howard would transfer it to the big screen.
Although, it’s on for far too long. Or maybe that’s my own personal reaction as i knew what events were going to happen from the book, and then having them drawn out for agggges.
Ron Howard isn’t very good at action films, and the ‘action’-y bits were a bit laughable. But the presentation of dialogue and theories was quite cool, they really went to town on the special effects (particuarly ones where Tom Hanks is explaining stuff).
I was a bit miffed when certain elements were left out, but then realised if they had gone for a complete book-to-film approach with every detail adhered to, it wouldn’t be very entertaining as 60 million people already know what’s going to happen.
There’s so many bad reviews of this film, and I can completely understand why, so many different people have read it and have their own interpretation of it, whereas this is just kind of Ron Howards.
It wasn’t bad at all, in my opinion, but i wouldn’t recommend seeing it if you haven’t read the book as the ending didnt make sense at all really (in the book the ending is mostly Langdon’s internal dialogue which helps explain, but is not present in the film).
The film has some scarey bits, not litreally scarey, but they did make the person in front of me jump many times. Much to my amusement.
But yeah, it’s alright, it’s not completely worthy of the massive media storm surrounding it.
