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A museum curator is killed in the Louvre, and the French authorities - in the stern form of a police captain (Jean Reno) - bring in Langdon (Tom Hanks), an American symbologist, to look at symbols the corpse painted on himself (with blood) before he died. Instead of lurching back to life every other scene, "The Da Vinci Code" should have built from one episode to the next. Of course, in each case some spoonful of action comes along to help the medicine go down, but the dialogue shouldn't have been like medicine, by turns didactic, abstruse and melodramatic.
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There are entire sequences in "The Da Vinci Code" that should have been riveting but instead are so weighted down in talk that they seem slow - not thoughtful, not rich with detail, not generously full of texture, but slow in a way that undercuts the flow. It's safe to say that, with a book this well known, any straying from the source material risks audience rejection, and yet dialogue that works on a printed page doesn't necessarily work onscreen. For a routine entry, that wouldn't be bad, but for a 153-minute blockbuster, directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman ("A Beautiful Mind"), there's no pretending it lives up to expectations.Īctually, it may in part have been audience expectations that dragged this one down.
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Though it's tempting to deal in extremes when talking about the year's most anticipated picture, the truth is that "The Da Vinci Code" is a pretty-good-but-who-cares effort, a moderately interesting diversion that will hold audiences in the moment but leave them unmoved and unchanged. There are reversals of expectation, miraculous escapes from certain doom - all the things that make thrillers thrilling. Just looked at as a piece of story construction, the movie's plot is a thing of beauty, with some immediate danger always pressing in on the characters, and some gigantic riddle always in the process of revealing itself. "The Da Vinci Code," the film version of Dan Brown's enormous best-seller, should have been the thinking person's thrill ride.