Just got back from watching the DaVinci Code, the first movie Ive seen in the theather in Oakland! The theater was packed, very warm, one stu lady brought a baby and there were a bunch of stugirls giggling in the audience.
Anyways, on to the review.
If you have read the book, the movie will make perfect sense to you as it is almost exactly like the book. However, a number of details are left out of the movie, and the movie tends to move quickly through the storyline and this could lead to confusion to those stus who have not yet read the book.
The movie starts with Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) a professor of stuology showing how images mean different things, such as the swastika is a Navajo peace symbol that was used on AZ highway signs prior to the Nazis fking it up. Meanwhile a stuboy albino who wears a barbed wire thong is turning the curator of the Louvee Art Museum in Paris into a corpse. Robert Langdon is called to the museum and then lots of shit happens and he begins being chased by that French guy who is in every movie that takes place in France ( Ronin, etc....) Langdon and the KO Sophie who he bones at the end of the book but not in the movie go through all this shit of going to a bank with this key and they solve about a million puzzles then they end up at Gandolfs house and he tells them stories of little hobbits and elves that once ruled the world and who are decendents of jebes himself. They proceed to fly on to england where lots of crap happens that goes by too quickly in the movie to understand but if you have read the book it makes perfect sense. Anyways lots of ppl betray others and sophie finds out she is really jebes' decendant and they all live happily ever after. Its the first movie in France staring Tom Hanks where he isnt turned into a corpse at the end in slow motion. He gave a turtleheaded performance in this movie and might get an award for fatest neck in a lead role.
Anyways, I enjoyed seeing the book come to life. I can understand how stus who havent read the book would find the movie confusing and somewhat stu as many details in the book are left out in the movie. such as the dude in the church at the end is really sophie's brother, but the movie never tells you this. I would rate the movie a 3.14159/4 as it was quite entertaining and I knew exactly what was going on eventhough the rednecks and bros around me probably didnt get it. Its not an over the top thrilling action movie, but it flows pretty well.
Warning:
If you believe every word in the bible or are devotly Catholic you should not see this movie as you will think its real, get really pissed that someone is insulting you, then leave a big flatch in the theater as you storm out.