The Green Knight

The Green Knight: "I'm a big fan of Audrey Tautou. Amelie was one of my favorite movies, ever. Also a good one, God is Great, I'm Not. I even liked Dirty Pretty Things, although it was grim and depressing. The Libertine was a hoot. And A Very Long Engagement was just gorgeous. Ordinarily I'd be happy to go and see just about anything she's in.

But I am so totally sick of hearing about The DaVinci Code. There are some movies that you just get tired of before they're even released. Titanic was one. The first Batman movie was another. And as for this one -- we've been bombarded lately with commercials for it, TV specials about it, stories in newspapers, magazines, websites, interviews -- enough already!

It's just a damn movie, based on just a damn novel."

The Da Vinci Code Movie: Better Than the Book

The Da Vinci Code Movie: Better Than the Book: "My wife and I read The Da Vinci Code two years ago. Describing the book, I used 'clumsy,' 'tedious,' and 'implausible' in one sentence. When I saw that the film was getting panned by the critics, I was not very excited about seeing it, but Friday is 'date day' for my wife and me, and we decided to judge for ourselves. I thought the movie was better than the book. Much better."

CAMPONTHIS: ..my review

CAMPONTHIS: The Da Vinci Code Movie
...my review: "My brief but accurate review of the book and the movie: '40,000,000 people can be wrong.' "

Review: The Da Vinci Code - Cinematical

Review: The Da Vinci Code - Cinematical: "The thing is, though, that seeing a film like Da Vinci with a bunch of other cynical critics is a bit like hanging out in the junior high cafeteria; once the popular kids start picking on the dorky guy in the corner, he's dead meat, and not a lot of other kids are going to stand up in defense of him."

The Da Vinci Code Reviews

The Da Vinci Code Reviews: "The earliest review for The Da Vinci Code have come out... and they're BAD. With a book so loved... how can you possibly screw up the movie version? Well, it looks like they found a way.

Here is what some critics are saying in their Da Vinci Code Reviews:

'There might be a riveting adventure thriller to be made from Dan Brown's controversial bestseller, but this is not it. Melodramatic, overlong and dare I say occasionally boring, Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code gets lost in the maze of its puzzles and media'
Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE

'...overblown so-so suspense flick...'
JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM

'A jumble of historical myth, religious symbology and international thriller-action makes for an unwieldy, bloated melodrama.'
Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

'An oppressively talky film that isn't exactly dull, but comes as close to it as one could imagine with such provocative material.'
Todd McCarthy, VARIETY

'Perhaps an interesting side-piece to those already fanatical about the book, but ultimately a lifeless adaptation that reveals the flaws of its source. So Dark, the Con of Dan Brown.'
Joe Utichi, FILMFOCUS

As of this moment, The Da Vinci Code review are carrying a... are you ready for this??? 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yes... 0%.

Now, take that with the grain of salt that there aren't a lot of reviews up yet... but the early ones certainly don't bode well"

The first da vinci code review

The first da vinci code review: "Surprisingly, Hanks is the only American in the large cast, which features Sir Ian McKellen in a strong supporting role as the manic Holy Grail historian Sir Leigh Teabing. In a gripping scene set at his mansion in the French countryside he reveals the secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting The Last Supper."

LIBERTAS Review of The Da Vinci Code

LIBERTAS Review of The Da Vinci Code: "One of the first reviews of the The Da Vinci Code is out via the London Telegraph. Sony has been very secretive about this movie with some speculating Ron Howard was going to tone down the controversial and if you are Christian blasphemous aspects of the story. Actually it appears Ron went the opposite way:

Although the movie closely follows the book’s storyline, Howard delivers something Dan Brown doesn’t - dramatic recreations of events relating to the book’s central inflammatory theory that for 2,000 years the Catholic Church has been covering up the fact that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and fathered a daughter, whose bloodline has survived into present-day Europe.

As well as scenes of the Inquisition and of women being tortured, burned and drowned, Howard shows Mary Magdalene fleeing the Holy Land for France and giving birth there."

The Daily Brief: Review: The DaVinci Code

The Daily Brief: Review: The DaVinci Code: "As a treasure hunt movie, National Treasure was more fun and edge of your seat exciting. It’s the subject matter which makes “The Code” more interesting. Mix fact with fiction with old mythology with a healthy dose of stretching ideas to fit a point of view, and you’ve got yourself a powerful brain bender. "

Danny Carlton: The DaVinci Code

Danny Carlton -- alias "Jack Lewis": Michael Medved's review of The DaVinci Code: "Some observers wonder why there’s been so much controversy regarding the movie version of THE DA VINCI CODE, but having finally seen the film I’m astonished that there’s so little. This very long (2 and a half hours) and very somber exercise amounts to a full-frontal assault on Christianity, explicitly suggesting that the world would be a better place of Christian faith collapsed, and blaming the church (the supposedly deluded faith in “one true god”) for racism, intolerance, sexism, brutality and fanaticism. In ideological terms, it’s a far more radical film than “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and even more deserving of public objection and condemnation. The argument that it’s just “fictional entertainment” falls apart in face of the movie’s gratuitous and inflammatory preachiness: director and co-producer Ron Howard could have offered an eerie, conspiratorial thriller without repeating the book’s outspoken indictments of Christian orthodoxy and shameless promotion of paganism. At the conclusion of the movie in particular, the lead characters (played by Tom Hanks and French Star Audrey Tautou) speculate on the liberating, peace-making, altogether beneficial impact on humanity if they someday succeed in rebutting the lies of authoritarian, traditional Christianity. Could anyone feel sincere surprise at the indignant reaction by those of us who believe that today’s Christian faith represents a blessing rather than a curse to this troubled planet?"