Exposing The Da Vinci Code DVD

Advantages: Great movie
Disadvantages: Comparing

...Ok i'll start off by telling you what the DaVinci Code is... At the begining of the movie the very well respected American symobolgy proffeser Robert Langdon (Hanks) is asked to come to Louvre (in France) to work out the mysteries behind the murder of a historian that he knew. A short while after being there he finds out that the FBI lead by Fache (Reno) beleives him to be the number 1 suspect for the murder. The dead guy was more than a historian he was also a grandfather to a young woman named Sophie who helps Langdon with the case and is by his side all the way through the movie.Langdon is hit with puzzles, codes, crypts traters and many other things but he still makes it out of France and back to England to discover the secrets behind the codes going all the way back to Leanardo Da Vinci. OK secondly what i like about the movie... Read review

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Advantages: good acting, impressive effects, interesting concept
Disadvantages: poor scripting, it is just not that good

...be the product of an awful script. For that, I blame the writer of the screenplay cross-bred with the writer of the novel. A badly written novel with what appears to be only its worst bits translated onto the screen. ***** DVD ****** The DVD comes with a whole disc of special features; mostly inimaginative interviews with all and sundry that were ever involved in the making of the film. Wholly uninteresting. The only special feature that is vaguely interesting is "The Codes of the Da Vinci Code", but then again, it contains nothing that hasn't been done, re-done and rereleased 40,000 times on network TV in the last 3 years. If you have the double-disc set, don't watch the special features. It's a couple of hours of your life you will never get back. The interview with the author is particularly dull and pseudo-intellectual. I really have... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Not a great film

...If I am being honest, after reading the book, I really do not know why i even bothered to buy the DVD. The acting is not the greatest bearing in mind the actors involved with the film, Tom Hanks has so much more to give than he offers in this film. The story is only very losely based on the book - in that they have missed large chunks out and so you jump from one scene to the next with no real explanation. It's a shame that the film does not show more the old churches of Rome as the book discribes, or go into more detail again the secret archives of the Vatican, which would have been of much interest. An easy film to watch as you really do not need to concentrate that much, I would however recommend that the you read the book rather than watch the film.... Read review

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