The Da Vinci Code is a Disaster

David Poland lays a severe ass-whipping to The Da Vinci Code.  Here are my favorite quotes:

• "the reviews that came out yesterday were all too kind"
• "For me, the movie was, simply, a disaster."
• "It's not easy to make an albino monk who self flagellates buck naked and has glow-in-the-dark eyes into a boring, unmotivated nothing. But they do it."
• "Mr. Hanks is badly miscast here"
• "This may be remembered as one of the worst major movie scripts ever. Really. Not hyperbole. There have been worse. But rarely do you see so much mess made of so much that seem interesting. There is not a single good piece of dialogue I can remember from the film."
• "I have no idea how loyal Akiva Goldsman was to the book, but there is no element of the film nearly as bad as the screenplay."
• "The film was not good, but it didn't become painful until it passed the two-hour mark. One reason for this is that even though the film has no real act structure, it felt as though the story was coming to an end, however unsatisfying, at that two hour mark. And then it went on for another 30 minutes."

Comments

[Daniel]

I saw it too and I totally agree with him, Ir was lame when you think the end is comining then you realize there is still some time until that also some stuff is predictible.