Saw the DaVinci Code last night with Johnny Martini, my thoughts below
I’d been hearing about the book for ages. People have told me that it’s a fiction book about non fiction conspiracies. Others have said it’s an attack against the church and will destroy the faith of people …yadda yadda.
If what I saw on the screen is supposed to be convincing..I’m sorry it doesn’t convince me of anything except that Ron Howard should stick to comedy, some drama but not to enter the mystery/thriller field.
I usually like church conspiracy movies. I can seperate the fact and fiction and laugh and be drawn in. I am, after all, the guy that loved the “Prince of Darkness” that supposed Jesus was an alien I mean come on!
No this movie was boring, drab, full of a billion plot holes and subplots and was about an hour too long. I kid you not, it went on FOREVER!
For those that don’t know, the movie is about this guy named Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology, that is pulled in by the French police to help decipher some symbols and phrases at a murder site of a dead colleague. From there the movie tries desperately to make sense, having a beautiful french cryptologist come in and whisk Hanks away as they go on a mad dash across Europe looking for the “Holy Grail”.
There are very few nice moments. One being when Ian McKellen finally enters the movie. Though his giant explanation of the “conspiracy” is looonnngg winded and is just there to try and help a hopelessly lost audience remember what the movie is about. But I was able to figure out who the bad guys were just by knowing who’s played bad guys in Marvel Superhero Movies.
*SPOILER*
I looked to Johnny and said “Dude that’s magneto and that’s Doc Ock! Not good!”
*DONE SPOILER*
Ron Howard usually does it up right, this however just seemed out of his genre. A midget car chase scene, a sublot of the main characters phobia that means nothing, and mindless puzzles that lead to other mindless puzzles.
I have heard that people that read the book like the movie alot and say that it follows the book to a tee. If that’s the case then I have no clue what the hooplah surrounding the book was. I’m sure that it fleshed out alot of the loose ends and holes that this movie caused me to think of. In a world where we are watching 24, Prison Break and a thousand other seamless shows and films, it’s hard to believe when characters do something mindlessly stupid that seems to happen at every turn in this flick.
So kinda entertaining, but I’d suggest you see National Treasure instead, or the Last Crusade. Save this one for video.
