DaVinci Code

Pros: Entertaining story that makes history interesting. Good cast.
Cons: Few slow spots.

The Da Vinci Code, a controversial book by Dan Brown, has been a best seller around the world for several years. I had heard some things about the book before I finally got it a few years ago. I enjoyed the book when ...

Pros: very intriguing story, Tom Hanks, an involved plot that kept my interest
Cons: none to my eyes

Spawned from the wildly successful novel, The Da Vinci Code finally made it to the big-screen in part thanks to Director Ron Howard. With the amount of success that the book achieved, it brought along much controversy with the subject-matter that it ...

Pros: Strong acting, directing and screenwriting
Cons: A little slow in parts

I want to preface this review my stating that I am a Christian. I only mention this because there has been a hue and cry that this movie and Dan Brown's novel were insults to the Christian community, the Catholic church and the Opus Dei society. I ...

Pros: An intriguing mystery
Cons: None that I can think of

When I first heard Da Vinci Code was going to be made into a movie I knew it would a film I would have to see...Both hubby and I had read the book and found it truly fascinating … I was caught up in all the hoopla going on about the movie, ...

Pros: great eye candy
Cons: talky, long

Remember Kevin Smith's Dogma, that irreverent comedy that takes Catholicism seriously - and then turns it inside out? I guarantee you will again, at least several times while watching this film. Ironically, it may have you chuckling at all the wrong ...

Pros: Acting, faithful to book
Cons: You just can't put as much in a movie as a book

Years ago, I read a book I loved, The Bonfire of the Vanities. It was interesting and it had great characters. I loved the central character, an investment banker named Sherman McCoy. Then the MOVIE version came, and cast, of all people, Tom ...

Pros: Ian McKellen and a handful of intriguing ideas...
Cons: ...that translate to a whole lot of nothing.

Of the reviews of The Da Vinci Code that have streamed in since its release last year, there seems to be a template, adhered to on a relatively frequent basis, for success and credibilty. It is, first and foremost, necessary to make clear two ...

Pros: Beautiful setting, intriguing story, some good casting choices
Cons: Miscast Tom Hanks, lacks a sense of urgency, too much backstory

I have been sooo pumped about the release about The Da Vinci Code. No, I haven’t read the book, but the movie had a really fabulous trailer and the plot intrigued me. While I will admit I was relatively entertained during the film, quite a few ...

Pros: Tightly written script, great historical data; thought-provoking story-line.
Cons: Lack of character development; Hanks and Audrey Tautou lacked chemistry.

As I stated in my review of the Dan Brown’s now legendary book The DaVinci Code, I am not a religious man; truth be told I am an agnostic, a man of logic, reason, and a tad too many questions about the whole God thing for most religious folk ...

Pros: An interesting movie if you filter out the delusions in most of its themes.
Cons: You wish Tom had spent his energy on a sequel to Forrest Gump instead.

It's tough to do what Ron Howard and Tom Hanks set out to do, and make it work. In trying to bring "The Da Vinci Code" to the screen, they faced at least three big challenges. First of all, the Dan Brown book is full of all kinds of exciting and ...

Pros: Good interpretation of the book, most acting, settings
Cons: Pace, some acting, burden to match a stellar book

It is amazing how easily people are divided into two opposing camps -- typically by means of ideology or religion. As expected, America shows one more time how polarized it is. Even Europe gets emotional in light of the opening movie at Cannes. Let's not ...

Pros: final scene, Tautau, Bettany, Hanks better than expected, fairly true to basic story
Cons: visually dark, dumbed down, much of the background material cut, lots of dialogue in French

I really enjoyed Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Mathematical puzzles, cyphers, multi-layered meanings, and history were combined well into an exciting story that engages the brain. I wasn't sure, however that it would translate well into a movie. ...

Pros: An intensely thought-provoking action-mystery, with an underlay of controversial religious history!
Cons: It's possibly a bit longer and slower than necessary for some viewers.

The cinema adaptation of the blockbuster Dan Brown novel of the same name is a blockbuster movie! Approached by screenplay writer Akiva Goldman and director Ron Howard with a respect bordering on reverence, they have done justice to the novel in ...

Pros: I like the star of the story...Jesus, I mean
Cons: Jokey treatment of religious/historical subject matter

I admit to having been as suckered-in as anyone by the novel The DaVinci Code. But the story's more implausible plot twists get full cliché treatment from director Ron Howard. As most people on the planet know by now, the story concerns Robert ...

Pros: Ian McKellan
Cons: Acting, Directing, flow, editing, plot, dialogue--just about everything.

This so-called controversial movie hated by critics does not really live up to the story or the names behind it. I expected a lot more from a Ron Howard film featuring Tom Hanks. Not to say that it isn't a bit of a historical thrill ride, but it loses ...