The DaVinci Code
It's interesting to me that The DaVinci Code is getting as bad reviews as it is. It's certainly not, on it's face, a bad movie. The production values are high. The acting is reasonable. The plot is interesting and twisty enough. So I'm kinda shocked that it's getting panned since, really, while it is a bad movie, it's basically solid entertainment. I thought it was ok, but not great. And a lot of the movie was spoiled for me because of the sense of production dynamics you build up after seeing as many movies as I have. For example, you don't cast Ian McKellan as a buddy character like Sala in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. That ruined one twist. And secondly, unless it's a Bond film important new characters aren't introduced in the third act. So once we learned we were looking for a person and not a thing it wasn't a big jump to figure out who that person would be.
One thing I did find annoying was the double ending. I could take multiple endings in the Lord of the Rings series because he had to save up his endings from the previous two movies. But this was just a single movie. So a single ending would be nice, thank you.
Overall, a good rental movie. In particular because the DVD will be chock full of goodies and games and what not. If you want a really good time in the theatre today, check out Over The Hedge.
Posted by jherr at May 22, 2006 08:09 AM