So what's the protest for? We've got a couple of secret religious societies protecting their secrets and killing a lot of people to do it. You can't buy the kind of publicity that fundamentalist Christians are giving this film. As is usually the case, they're driving up the box office. Ron Howard has made an entertaining enough film and should put a lot of money in his pocket with all the protests going on. It's not as good as those two, but not bad either. The DaVinci Code is a murder mystery chase very much in the style of such Hitchcock thrillers as North By Northwest and The 39 Steps. The investigating detective, Jean Reno, has another agenda going as he's a member of Opus Dei. Hanks is accused of murdering Tautou's grandfather and she believes him when he says he's innocent. So what's all the fuss about? Tom Hanks is a visiting American professor of Theology in Paris and Audrey Tautou is a cryptologist with the French police. Reviewed by bkoganbing 7 / 10 Rocking Christianity to the Core Once it got under way, I approached it as a mystery thriller with religious overtones and didn't get caught up in the conspiracy angles. There's probably not much middle ground for viewers of this picture, you'll like it or hate it based on the reviews posted here. The actor to watch in this piece is Paul Bettany, who's character Silas engages in self mutilation as a devotee of Christ he's a truly chilling and scary character. The expert on all this was an enigmatic figure referred to as The Teacher, ultimately revealed to be Sir Leigh Teabing, portrayed by the always excellent Ian McKellen. The way the story relates this possibility is intriguing enough, but does tend to confuse with mentions of such occult entities as Opus Dei, the Priory of Sion, and the Knights Templar. The secret so many people were apparently willing to die for was to preserve the legacy of the human descendants of Christ on Earth, which could only have occurred if Jesus himself had a wife and family and the lineage survived up until the present day. A cup is mentioned at one point but then it veered off in a different direction. Some historians believe the chalice used by Jesus at The Last Supper to be the Holy Grail of Christianity, and I thought this was where the story was going. If you don't, you could get caught up in all kinds of conspiracy theories regarding what happened following the Last Supper and the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. If you heed the advice given by symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) to Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) mentioned in my summary line above, you should be OK. Reviewed by classicsoncall 9 / 10 "We've been dragged into a world of people who think this stuff is real!" In their search, Sophie and Robert happen upon evidence that could lead to the final resting place of the Holy Grail, while members of the priory and an underground Catholic society known as Opus Dei give chase, determined to prevent them from sharing their greatest secrets with the world. As Sophie and Robert dig deeper into the case, they discover the victim's involvement in the Priory of Sion, a secret society whose members have been privy to forbidden knowledge dating back to the birth of Christianity. Needing help, Sophie calls on Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks),a leading symbologist from the United States. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou),a gifted cryptographer who is also the victim's granddaughter. ![]() The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds, with strange symbols carved into his body and left around the spot where he died. ![]() Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from Director Ron Howard.
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