The Da Vinci Code [Blu-ray] [Region B] [2006]

Based on the bestselling and intriguing novel by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code stays wisely close to the book and portrays Brown's flair for combining fact, fiction and action into a very entertaining experience. Tom Hanks, as brilliant as in his previous films, heads the cast as Robert Langdon: a symbologist who studies the hidden meanings behind symbols and legends. He is accompanied by a very gifted supporting cast that include Audrey Tatou, Iank Mckellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany and Alfred Molina.Ron Howard directs this film with an eye for action, emotion and landscape and his sweeping shots and simplistic elegance make this film all the more engaging. Akiva Goldsman pens Dan Brown's novel into film and a good job he's done too, including all the relevant details and retaining the historic fact that made the novel so interesting and suprising. The twists are, if you are ignorant to the novel, suprising and the action is suitably stages and is never over done so that it undermines the elegance of the history behind the story. Hans Zimmer delivers a sweeping, epic soundtrack and his score goes a long way in making this film all the more brilliant.Overall, The Da Vinci Code is one of the most entertaining films ever made: it is intriguing, engrossing, brilliantly acted and directed and provides historic detail that is so interesting it will make you want to hunt for the holy grail yourself.Ignore the critics who are slating this film's historical innacuracy, and just sit back and enjoy this awesome film. Besides whose to say this film is not accurate, is there proof that the grail wasn't in fact a person and that the priory of sion exist? You decide, the book and film certainly made me into a believer.The extras are admittedly a little light so i would recommend buying the extended to disc edition that not only gives you half an hour extra of film but hours of interesting bonus features.

The best robert langdon movie by a long way. Worth repeat viewing. I wonder if that was Tom Hanks' real hair?

After a suspicious murder at the Louvre, Symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) and detective Sophie Neveu (Tautou) are on the run whilst they attempt to uncover the mystery of the Holy Grail.Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code broke barriers with audiences all over the world for its unashamed approach to religion and the concept of what the Holy Grail truly is amongst the ongoing battle between Opus Dei, The Church and the Priory of Sion. Brown certainly has sparked hefty debates but a film adaptation was always inevitable and when released, it caused as much as a storm as when the book was released.The storm that came with this in 2006 was an ashamed feeling of disapprove for the way director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman approached this astonishing story. This was banned in numerous countries for its strong opinions and depictions of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene but the uproar came for the film itself. Badly made, unfaithful to source material and atrociously acted and directed, Da Vinci fell into the category of the world's worst blockbusters. Personally, amongst all the negativity, I rather enjoyed watching two fine actors looking to solve a delicate mystery.There is no doubt that whatever your beliefs, the book is well scripted with a sharp and intriguing motive to keep you hooked right till the shocking finale. Even the long winded debates were interesting as we learnt of different groups in Christianity and the film took all the heavy ideologies onboard in an attempt to portray the book as was written.At two and a half hours, this film somehow leaves out a vast majority of debated conceptual significance but the importance is all relative come the end. For someone who enjoyed the book, I find the simple explanation as to why this movie "failed" is that it leaves out this hefty amount of debate.Tom Hanks was criticized for his blunt performance and sadly, the hype was right. There was no spring as there was in Big, no drama like in Cast Away. From the book, it seemed Langdon was a more spirited soul that exuded adventure but there is something lacking here. Tautou is buoyant and necessarily silent in all the right places gives a good pairing along the way with Hanks; one of the final scenes exceptionally sentimental.Ron Howard, who was also slated, delivers an unsurprising style of mystery. His continuous use of close shots for unsurprised expressions do nothing to help the feel of the film, which means the reliance is all on the plot, which is enjoyable and still exciting.Yes, it isn't the book but as with the Harry Potter series for example, we all came to our own conclusions and drew up our own imagination so it was never going to be perfect. Da Vinci Code is a good film with a strong conceptual plot that generates debate and excitement.8/10

This extended edition filled some of the gaps left by the original film.

I have not actually watched this DVD yet, but will be latter today, I ve never seen this film before, but I have read the book and it is a very well known classic film, with some good reviews when it was first released, I m sure everything will be fine with the DVD never normally have any problems with DVD brought from Amazon and there has been a lot brought!!

An Amazing tale and the truth is there will be thousands of descendants by now.A couple of historic errors like the Senechaux used to serve the Pope's dinner on a silver tray paraded through Rome and then test the food first.Also Dan missed a few tricks that could have added gravitas to the story. Like Da Vinci painted 2 versions of Madonna and Child. One is in Paris, where they filmed and another is in London, where they also filmed. Mary and baby Jesus or the babies of Jesus and Mary.If you look at The Last Supper properly you will see two figures that look like ladies.A few word plays they could have used. Princess means Sarah and Sophie means Wisdom. Plus Andre Vernet in English Andrew Green is a great friend of mine that I miss at the moment.All Said and done excellent 1 million percent from me.Ant XxxxxPS: AS he linked Jesus to the Royals he could have used the bible itself: King James version of course.

Perfect cd