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The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

 

Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 2006 / Director: Ron Howard / Actors: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou ... more
The Da Vinci Code (DVD) ... ... / DVD released 15 January, 2007 at Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL / Critics and controversy aside, The Da Vinci Code is a verifiable blockbuster. Combine the film's huge worldwide box-office take with over 100 million copies of Dan Brown's book sold, and The Da Vinci Code has clearly made the leap from pop-culture hit to a certifiable franchise (games and action figures are sure to follow). The leap for any story making the move from book to big screen, however, is always more perilous. In the case of The Da Vinci Code, the story is concocted of such a preposterous formula of elements that you wouldn't envy Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter who was handed a potentially unfilmable book and asked to make a filmable script out of it. Goldsman's solution was to have the screenplay follow the book as closely as possible, with a few needed changes, including a better ending. The result is a film that actually makes slightly better entertainment than the book. So if you're like most of the world, by now you've read the book and know that it starts out as a murder mystery. While lecturing in Paris, noted Harvard Professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by French police help decipher a bizarre series of clues left at the scene of the murder of the chief curator, Jacques Sauniere. Enter Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), gifted cryptologist and Sauniere's granddaughter. Neveu and Langdon are forced to team up to solve the mystery, and from there the story is propelled across Europe as it balloons into a modern-day mini-quest for the Holy Grail, complete with alternative theories about the life of Christ, ancient secret societies headed by historical figures like Leonardo Da Vinci, secret codes, conniving bishops, daring escapes, car chases, and, of course, a murderous albino monk controlled by a secret master who calls himself "The Teacher." Taken solely as a mystery thriller, the movie almost works--despite some gaping holes--mostly just because it keeps moving forward at the breakneck pace set in the book. Brown's greatest trick might have been to have the entire story take place in a day so that the action is forced to keep going, despite some necessary pauses for exposition. Hanks and Tautou are just fine together but not exactly a memorable screen pair; meanwhile, Sir Ian McKellen's scenery-chewing as pivotal character Sir Leigh Teabing is just what the film needs to keep it from taking itself too seriously. In the end, this hit movie is just like a good roller-coaster ride: try not to think too much about it--just sit back and enjoy the trip. --Daniel Vancini, Amazon.com

Newest Review: ... on the run in a cat and mouse chase with the French Police, a self harming monk who will stop at nothing to maintain the ... more

 ... secrets of the grail for his leaders, and an elderly eccentric who might not be all that he seems. But the most surpisingly revelation, or perhaps not, is the identity of the holy blood line and just what the founders of a secret and deadly alliance will do to stop the identity of the holy grail being revealed. The book threw up questions that are lost in the translation here. The film plods along with clunky dialogue and too many confusing plot threads that aren't easily explained with dialogue and cant neccessarily ...more

bilbob20
Premium Review The Da Vinci Code (DVD): The Holy Grail Of Films? (683 words)
by bilbob20 - written on 09.11.07 (Very useful, 50 readings)
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You'd have to have been stranded on an iceberg near the sinking of the Titanic not to have heard of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, a book that questions the basis of Christianity and whether the holy grail is indeed an existing blood line or not. The book itself has shifted a zillion copies despite actually not really being that well written. Here, the text finds itself into film adaption, and a faithful one it is. Tom Hanks, the only actor known to Ron Howard, takes on leading duties as Robert Langdon, the professor who is unwittingly dragged into the mystery after the Head of the famous Louvre Gallery is found murdered. Surrounding him are various clues ...

Andy.mack
Crowned Review [Film] Seek The Truth, Seek The Codes (862 words)
by Andy.mack - written on 07.11.06 (Very useful, 146 readings)
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The Da Vinci Code seems to have been the biggest phenomenon in the world for the last couple of years. Dan Brown's book appeared out of nowhere and seemed to become an overnight success. Then there was the movie, released earlier this year on Cinema audiences to an enormous amount of hype. It seemed to be targeted at everyone, people who couldn't be bothered to read the book and a chance for those that had to see how it translated to the big screen. While I thought that Angels and Demons was the better book I was quite keen to see how the Da Vinci Code transferred to the movie format. When the curator of the Louvre gallery in Paris is murdered the police are ...

plipplop
Crowned Review The Da Vinci Code (DVD): All The Clues Were There (1172 words)
by plipplop - written on 20.06.06 (Very useful, 143 readings)
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There has been a murder in the Louvre. A man’s body is found naked, with terrible wounds, his body prostrate within a pentagram marked out on the floor. When it transpires that a message has been left for cryptologist Dr Robert Langdon, the police escort him to the scene where, to his shock he is secretly informed by a young officer that he is the prime suspect. Narrowly making his escape from the police, Langdon and his new accomplice, Agent Sophie Neveu, set about unravelling the mystery of the man’s death and gradually uncover the truth behind a secret that threatens the very origins of Christianity. But not surprisingly, there are those who want the secret to remain ...

 
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