The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

...people will have heard of The Da Vinci Code, whether that be the original Dan Brown novel or this, the Hollywood movie based on the novel. I got this movie on official DVD along with some others from a relative last year and although I had passed it on to my parents to watch last year sometime, I hadn't watched it myself and it sat in my DVD tower for some time, until I finally decided I just had to watch it recently lol. I was put off watching it ...
...last night. I hadn't read the novel, so I wasn't entirely sure what to expect, other than that the story had alot to do with Christianity and the Bible I believed. I wasn't sure how entertaining it might be but that turned out not to be such an issue. If you want to find out more, read on... - Main Credits (non-actors, which are mentioned further on in the review) - Source:- IMDB (see:- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/fullcredits) Director ...

IzzyS 21.09.2008 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

...Langdon is called in when the curator of the Louvre is found dead in the museum, covered in mysterious sigils. But Langdon soon finds himself framed for the murder and on the run with French cryptologist Sophie Neveu. They are quickly embroiled in a conspiracy far larger than they could ever have imagined; one that could threaten the tenets of Christian belief. But powerful people are determined that the secret remains just that and they are willing ...
...with "The Da Vinci Code". The film takes itself too seriously throughout, which is odd considering the source material is nothing more than an airport/beach novel struck lucky. Had the movie a little more razzle-dazzle or a sense of its own worth as disposable entertainment, it would have fared far better. Unfortunately it is rendered an exceptionally tedious, overlong potboiler by stolid direction. Howard is utterly beholden to the very letter of ...

afy9mab 03.10.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

Sorry for the naff title but I had to get this in because of the Director Ron Howard (who starred in Happy Days for those younger members of Ciao who have never heard of him). After reading Dan Brown's book (which I have reviewed separately) which was the inspiration for this film, I just had to get my grubby little paws on the DVD. I was that eager to watch it that, the day the DVD was released, I was at the NAAFI the minute it opened and stood ...
...from the stockroom (they were just in and hadn't quite got round to putting the DVD's on the shelves!). Not that I was desperate to see Tom Hanks in action as Robert Langdon - oh no! I wanted to see how true to the book this film was going to be, as the majority of "book to film" adaptations I have seen have had quite a lot of "artistic licence" used to make the film more marketable. I paid 24.99 Euros for this 2-disc set which equates to around ...

bonsi6337 18.03.2007 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

The Da Vinci Code; 2006; Directed by Ron Howard; Rated 12 Anyone who has heard me speak of The Da Vinci Code will know my opinion on it; an opinion I stand by having seen the movie. This is a fabulous story, brimming with intrigue, scandal and almost managing to pass itself off as fact. The big disappointment is that it was not written very well at all. Now, no disrespect to Dan Brown, he has made an awful lot of money off these books and got his ...
...Anyway, my major gripe with the books was that they read like movies; The Da Vinci Code inparticular. He obviously wrote this with the sole purpose of selling it as a film in later years and from reading the book, you are left thinking, by god this will be a FANTASTIC film. It had real potential.... Had... Sadly though, the Da Vinci Code movie, simply fails to deliver. It misses the "Awesome" mark so widely that it doesn't even graze the target ...

cocoklo 28.12.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

The Da Vinci Code seems to have been the biggest phenomenon in the world for the last couple of years. Dan Brown's book appeared out of nowhere and seemed to become an overnight success. Then there was the movie, released earlier this year on Cinema audiences to an enormous amount of hype. It seemed to be targeted at everyone, people who couldn't be bothered to read the book and a chance for those that had to see how it translated to the big screen. ...
...quite keen to see how the Da Vinci Code transferred to the movie format. When the curator of the Louvre gallery in Paris is murdered the police are keen to question Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) about the discovery of the body. While Bezu Fasche (Jean Reno) is interrogating him, Langdon discovers he is infact the one and only suspect and Fasche is trying to get a confession from him. Assisted by a French police cryptographer, Langdon manages to get ...

Andy.mack 05.11.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

The DaVinci Code. Dan Brown's multimillion best selling story about Jesus and The Holy Grail has finally been tailored for the big screen and now recently on DVD for the small screen, following in the tradition of many other adaptations such as The Godfather, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter etc. Will The DaVinci Code be as good a movie as it was a book or will it just attempt to be a money making picture with no regard for quality or the book's ...
...murder investigation when the curator of The Louvre, Jacques Sauniere is found dead with his body contorted in an extremely curious position. After trying to discover the reason for his murder, Langdon is warned by a beautiful, intelligent cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) that the chief investigator Bezu Fache (Jean Reno) suspects him and warns that his life is also in danger. After stumbling upon a series of seemingly innocuous clues left ...

blackman007 23.10.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

The Da Vinci Code (2006) The film, made in is based on the book of the same title by Dan Brown and charts a 24 hour period in the life of Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor who specialises in symbology. When the curator of the Louvre in Paris is murdered, Langdon is called in to help investigate, little suspecting why he has been asked to help. Along with the granddaughter of Jacques Sauntiere, the dead curator, he begins an exhilarating quest ...
...the hills. The action takes place over 24 hours, as the two main characters battle it out together to try and uncover the mystery before dark, hidden enemies banish it forever. The film stars Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, Audrey Tantou as Sophie Neveu, and features other great actors like Ian McKellen, and Jean Reno. The film is directed by Ron Howard. ******************** Me and The Book and The Film. I read the Da Vinci Code long after the ...

phoenixgreen 08.11.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

...stranded on an iceberg near the sinking of the Titanic not to have heard of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, a book that questions the basis of Christianity and whether the holy grail is indeed an existing blood line or not. The book itself has shifted a zillion copies despite actually not really being that well written. Here, the text finds itself into film adaption, and a faithful one it is. Tom Hanks, the only actor known to Ron Howard, takes on ...
...dragged into the mystery after the Head of the famous Louvre Gallery is found murdered on its grounds with various clues pointing towards Da Vinci's famous paintings being an interpretation of the holy bloodlink. Sophie, the granddaughter of the murder victim, is on hand to lend her own expertise to Robert as he finds himself on the run in a cat and mouse chase with the French Police, a self harming monk who will stop at nothing to maintain the secrets ...

bilbob20 29.11.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

As noted in the heading this is a review of the film, seen recently on Sky. I have not read the book, but gathered from the media that the story was nonsense. Of course I had also noticed the pre-release 'hype', which is often a bad sign, but now I have seen it I think the film is quite good The Plot '''''''''' You might need to live on the moon not to have heard about the book. Just in case, the story is set in the present but revolves around ...
...mysterious artefact in Jerusalem during the crusades, the Grail. They are supposed to have used it to threaten the basis for the authority of the Christian Church, as originally defined and organised by the Roman Emperor Constantine for purely political purposes. But the Catholic establishment got them first. A handful survived and supposedly guarded their treasure down the ages by maintaining a secret and hereditary cult. Unfortunately their activities ...

tranx 27.07.2007 (22.08.2007) · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

Last year the da vinci code became one of the most saught after novels of our time. A fiction story which topped the best sellers charts for months and caused much delibaration and argument around Christianity which ultimately ended up in the high courts. With all of this attention drawn to the excellent novel it was only a metter of time before the film would be made. Assembling a starring cast of Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno ...
...nothing could go wrong. The story it based around a secret society which has kept the location of the Holy Grail secret for thousands of years. This society is made up of the greatest of minds in the world at that point and over the years has included all of the scientific greats. When the grandmaster of the society is murdered he leaves a message for his daughter to contact Robert Langdon (Hanks). Langdon is an expert in ancient history and symbolism ...

pdoyle007 04.12.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

...that Tom Hanks was never the 1st choice for the lead role in this film. Not even 2nd, 3rd, 4th 5th or 6th choice I would have said. And reading the trivia for the film I was gratified to discover my feelings were correct. I totally didn't recognise Audrey Tatou but she was excellent in her role & out performed Hanks in every scene they were both in. Jean Reno was excellent as the Opus Dei police inspector but he was a bit clichéd in certain sections ...
...totally threw a spanner into the smooth running plot of the film. The locations and sets of the film all look wonderfully, some of the characters are a tad annoying, Silas the albino monk especially so. I noticed a couple of huge mistakes. The British Police vehicles, namely the grey BMW's with orange stripes. No Uk police forces use BMW's and all police car markings are yellow, not orange. Also in the sequence where Silas has shot the armed police, ...

atytyut2434 17.07.2008 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

The Da Vinci Code is based on Dan Browns novel (of the same name). Whether you've read the book or not will probably determine what you think of the film. Just like a lot of Book to film adaptations it isn't as good as the book. However, when I first saw the film, I hadn't read the book and I found it to be a pretty good film. Well I must have to have gone out and bought the book. But then watching the film again I realized just how great the book ...
...simply cannot be transferred into the film, however the plot does stay very much intact. I personally think the reason this film may have received some harsh reviews is due to their over expectations of the film. When I first saw the film I thought it was very interesting as well as being fairly fast paced and enjoyable. Tom hanks plays the character Robert Langdon very well just too do the rest of the outstanding cast. But now to more detail about ...

MattMan101 10.12.2007 (11.12.2007) · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

If you have read the book, this should of been the one film which you could not wait to see. If you have not read the book you may of noticed the hype. In my opinion the film in no way lives upto the book but for a fast paced murder thriller it is certainly worth a watch or two. There are only a couple of plot deviations and changes from the book, which for Hollywood is quite good going. To enjoy this movie you do not have to have much knowledge ...
...explanations throughout the movies. Just a little knowledge of the story of Jesus will suffice. With a good cast led by Tom Hanks and ably supported by Ian Mckellen, Paul Bettany and Jean Reno, this is the story about religion, murder, symbolism and a quest to find the greatest secret of all time. The movie starts with the murder of a curator in the world famous Louvre museum in Paris. With clues and symbolism left at the murder scene, the police ...

belgarion04 20.12.2006 (21.12.2006) · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

The Da Vinci Code was a film that I watched at the cinema when it came out, without having read the book. I don't really have enough spare time to read books, I'm not one who can do it on public transport and I tend to prefer films as they manage to squeeze a lot more in a small space of time, therefore the film - adaptation or not, was going to be the only version I came across. I found the Da Vinci Code to be an awesome film, until the last few ...
...and cheesy, it seems that the film had to push it that little bit further beyond belief having told fairly in depth and plausible findings in the earlier parts of the film. Either way, it had that eerie church feel (I always find churches to be scary dark places, the blood splattered Jesus' don't exactly welcome you!) as if you didn't know what was round the next corner, the actors did superb jobs with the adaptable Tom Hanks taking the main role ...

dangaroo 14.01.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

We Brought the DVD a few weeks after it was realeased. After all the hype, it was a bit of a let down. However, having read the book before hand, it was slightly impressive and I could just about work out what was happening. The action was good and their was a lot of symbolysm used in the film to make it more effective - though i must explain that i didn't notice it until i watched the special features on the bonus disk. The story line, as i mentioned ...
...strongly recommend reading the book before watching the film if you want to get full enjoyment out of this product. I watched it with my mum and my nan, all of us enjoyed it immensley, this suggests that it is a fabulous film for all ages. Upon ending we were able to hold an intresting discussion about the issues. For those of you who have manged to blot out all the greif this book had been given i shall outline why. This story basically centers ...

smudgehamster 17.05.2007 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)