I Am From The Surete. It's A Sort Of French F.B.I.

[poliphilo]

The Da Vinci Code is a Hitchcock chase movie in which the McGuffin takes the starring role.

I think I've understood why people love it so. This New Age conspiracy stuff is addictive. What a pity none of it is true.

But take away the excitement of the ideas, and its a dull ride.

There's no chemistry between Hanks and Tatou. Instead they conduct a seminar on the run.

Almost anyone would have been better in this role than Hanks. What a pity Cary Grant was unavailable.

The energy picks up when Ian McKellen is on screen and subsides when he leaves.

Comments

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

I couldn't read the book--it was just too dreadfully written. I was hoping the movie would take away the horror of bad writing and expose an interesting story, entertainingly dramatized, but that didn't happen. It's simply a lame story, badly told, and I think if people weren't so hungry, all unconscious, for a little Goddess and sex and the body in their religion, it wouldn't have been so successful.

But in a way, it was worth seeing just to hear Ian McKellen deliver a line like, "Penises sprouting up everywhere!" or whatever it was. *g*

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The film was badly written too. There was no attempt to establish character or create relationships and the dialogue was almost entirely concerned with the swapping of information.

Perhaps if they'd been prepared to offend Dan Brown's fan base and take a hatchet to the book they could have made something decent out of it.