The Da Vinci Code (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 219 Fresh: 54 Rotten:165 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus:
What makes Dan Brown's novel a best seller is evidently not present in this dull and bloated movie adaptation of The Da Vinci Code.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 2 hrs 29 mins
Theatrical Release: May 19, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $217,536,138
Synopsis: Dan Brown's best-selling book THE DA VINCI CODE gets adapted for the big screen thanks to director Ron Howard (CINDERELLA MAN), who helms this big budget production. Veteran actor Tom Hanks stars as professor Robert Langdon, whose Parisian lecture tour on feminine symbolism gets disrupted... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jean Reno
Director: Ron Howard
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman
Producer: John Calley, Brian Grazer
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman
Producer: John Calley, Brian Grazer
Composer: Hans Zimmer
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So intent on being faithful, The DaVinci Code forgets to be entertaining.
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02/28/08
Any movie with a skulking albino assassin begs for campy, self-aware treatment, but Howard and scripter Akiva Goldsman serve it all up straight-faced.
07/29/07
Who knows whether Dan Brown was motivated by a distaste for Catholicism or merely by money? Regardless, it seems dishonest for him to foist his debunked heresies on the gullible, unsuspecting public as if they're the God's honest truth.
05/20/07
A great film to look at and Salvatore Totino's cinematography is pitch-perfect.
04/19/07
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01/20/07
Whatever your beliefs, "The Da Vinci Code" is a film to be seen and, more importantly, discussed.
12/13/06
They make fun of you for watching their movies, and still they get paid!
11/11/06
If you want an entertaining yarn about the Knights Templar, historical secrets, and cryptic codes hidden in famous documents and artifacts, go rent National Treasure.
09/22/06
Does what a good film adaptation should do: Illustrate the best parts of its source material and still manage to make a highly enjoyable film for the uninitiated.
08/14/06
The movie version is so faithful to Dan Brown's hit book it should come with a dust jacket ...
07/27/06
If you want a taut adventure story, read the book. If you want a simiplistic tale with average performances and irritating alterations to the source material, watch the movie.
07/25/06
It would have taken a more imaginative approach and vision not within the reach of Howard and Goldsman to make the material come alive as a movie.
07/17/06
The Da Vinci Code is just another summer movie for people who like pulp in their cinematic orange juice.
07/08/06
Completing the trail of cryptic clues simply becomes an end in and of itself -- think Sudoku: The Movie -- with little in the way of whimsy, star chemistry or excitement to enliven the dour plod.
06/24/06
Even as a visual aid, The Da Vinci Code is a deep-dyed disappointment. Paris by night never looked murkier.
06/22/06
Top Critic
It still had the necessary element of Encyclopedia Brown cerebellus-ex-machina, but it was visually interesting and didn't slow down the action with book-digging%u2026they made the film well, they just took the path of least resistance, and for that I can
06/13/06
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