The Da Vinci Code on DVD (2006)

A customer from Brighton , 20/05/2006

Get beyond the hype, sit back and enjoy a good story, a few scares and some good twists.

There isn't a dull moment. My only negative would be that the book makes the lead characters a bit more personable - Hanks is a bit too plastic and the chemistry between him and Tautou is non existent.

Is it a good movie? Yes!

  28 out of 37 people found this review helpful

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Mbub from Westbury, Wilts , 12/06/2007

This film is about Robert Langdon, a man brought in to help with a murder in a Paris Gallery. With his help can the mystery surrounding Jesus Christ be solved at long last? Without the book, of the same name, this movie would have been very creditable, the problem is that the book was so successful the film came and went as a lame duck. Nothing new was added to it and although I did find it interesting, even having already read the book, it really is nothing more than an average film. Only watch this if you haven't already read the book, otherwise it will be a let down.

  25 out of 25 people found this review helpful

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PaulaWestwood from Ashton-Under-Lyne [Highly rated reviewer] , 25/05/2006

Two of us had read the book, one hadn't, and we all rated the film very highly.

As a representation of the book the film is quite accurate, though obviously it does not have the full detail that is possible in book form.

Away from that, as a standalone film it is very good, entertaining, and to some degree educational.

This is a film that is well worthy of watching, you should definately ignore the negative reports, and go and see this one for yourself.

  26 out of 37 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Marlow, England , 28/06/2006

Disclaimer: I would like to state that that I am not a religious zealot (quite the opposite in fact), and nor have I read the book. Right, now we've got that covered, I am free to slate this appalling piece of cinema with impartial abandon. Now I am a fan of independent cinema as a general rule (yes, yes, cinematic/literary snob alert), but that doesn't mean to say that I don't appreciate the finer points of a good Hollywood blockbuster. Unfortunately the only good things to be said for this film come in the shape of Sir Ian McKellen and Paul Bettany. Nothing new there then. As for the usually magnetic Audrey Tautou... Why, why has she done this to herself? Perhaps her performance was intended to be a parody of some kind? She and Hanks are banal, disappointingly uninspiring for actors of their calibre and have so little chemistry that they seem to be looking through rather than at each other. Ordinarily I am all in favour of anything that gets up the Pope's nose, but if it's a good religious conspiracy theory you're after, I thoroughly recommend going elsewhere. In fact just go elsewhere full stop - bad acting, bad script, bad direction, bad cinematography... Did anyone else notice that every shot of London (just in case we forgot where they were, presumably) contained at least one Routemaster, black cab and/or red telephone box?

Having been quite lengthy on the subject, however, I think I can sum up this film with a single adjective: ludicrous.

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A customer from Guernsey , 25/07/2007

Like many others who have watched the film most would have read the book first. On some occasions it is far more difficult to reflect the storyline and background from literature to the screen. Unfortunately this was one such case. If I had not read the book prior to watching the film, I would have been totally confused !

Sorry, just didn't work for me !

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A customer from near Roslin Glen! , 07/05/2007

Ok, so I didn't like the book... but I did think the film would be good fun - a big chase around great locations.

What a turkey :-( This was simply badly made, and threw away most of the opportunities for thrills and spills.

  5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

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