Well, I've just been to see The Da Vinci Code with my wife, and to be honest I'm saddlesore. It's a very long film - 2 & 1/2 hours, so if you haven't seen it and want to, take a cushion. Other than that, it wasn't bad, as such, just a little preposterous. Tom Hanks does the quiet, clever, restrained thing he does so well (see Apollo 13 and The Green Mile). His lovely co-star Audrey Tatou is very French and feminine. Ian McKellern plays Gandalf in a plaid shirt. Paul Bettany has an almost comic turn as a psychotic albino monk, and Jean Reno plays a bitter French cop. The plot is pretty much a chase across Europe in search of clues, followed by an obsessive policeman working for the Pope. Think National Treasure meets The Pink Panther. The thing is, do we care enough to really enjoy the movie ? Well, some Catholics would have Ron Howard and Dan Brown burned at the stake for the postulations of the plot (that Jesus had a wife and that his bloodline ends with Audrey Tatou) but mostly it's a complicated, uneventful but entertaining cryptic chase movie. It's just a pity we didn't get to see Audrey Tatou extending the bloodline - although perhaps not with Tom Hanks.
Thought for the day - do unto others as they would do unto you. Only make sure you do it first. Night, all
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