After nearly 11 years, I gathered the courage to watch The Da Vinci Code again. And it's still utter shit. I just can't get over all the nonsense and the general stupidity (the movie's even worse than the book, IMHO). And no, it's not because of the theme. I could take on a poorly researched film full of historical and theological bullshit, if it was actually a good movie. As the story already supports that, it could have been another Bourne, or another Children of Men - the frantic, hand-cam, runaway movie where the protagonists actually have to think on the run and invent creative solutions at the spur of the moment. But no, it's a 2 1/2 hour stupid bore full of exposition that makes no sense and very little action. I will admit the pros, though - 1.) Audrey Tautou is really cute, even if I'm not already in the drooling phase anymore, 2.) Bettany is fun to watch here, 3.) the kicks/nudges it gives to Opus Dei (a controversial organisation, though absolutely nothing as depicted in the movie, I may add) are fun to watch for a Catholic, I guess, but more of an in-joke, I'm afraid, 4.) the Rolex scene was actually good and clever, 5.) Zimmer's score, though stealing from everywhere it could, was appropriately epic, 6.) connected with No 5, the final scene with the discovery of the MM's body was quite nice. Nonsensical (shit, how much attention has to be paid to the glass monstrosity before Louvre anyway? - at least the movie does away with that "666 panels" stupidity from the book), but noticeably better than most of the movie.
