Movie Review

As planned, I went and saw The DaVinci Code movie at the dollar theater last night. Well, actually, it was the $1.50 theater. Anyway, the movie was well worth the price of the ticket. I enjoyed it.

For all of the talk about how bad Tom Hanks' acting was, I thought his performance as Dr. Robert Langdon was fine. Not as good as some of his work, but it wasn't bad. The others actors were OK too, but Ian McKellen as Sir Leigh Teabing was outstanding.

I was more frustrated in the movie than I expected to be. I knew about the historical mistakes, etc. and was prepared for them, but still, watching it in the theater I couldn't stop thinking, "Some people are going to believe this!!" And what is most frustrating is that it is simply bad history. Even non-Christian scholars panned the historical claims in the book as junk.

One thing I did notice about the movie versus the book was that many of the claims were toned down in the movie and Hanks' character, Langdon, was much more skeptical of Sir Leigh Teabing's theories than he was in the book.

All-in-all, though, both the book and the movie were enjoyable works of fiction.