Ron Howard didn’t magnify this sequence at all. In the beginning of the film, I was expecting a sweeping shot of the Louvre, leading on to the harried curator Jacques Sauniere scurrying across the Louvre halls with Silas following at his heels. They didn’t put to any good use any of their locations, which is a huge disappointment. They didn’t make use of the city of Paris. I felt like the producers didn’t take advantage of their being able to use the actual Louvre. Plenty of talking, plenty of gesticulating, and plenty of Tom Hanks’ incredible non-expressive face. Everything was built around communicating Dan Brown’s theory of the scared feminine.
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I felt like the whole movie would never end. At the Cannes Film Festival, one critic went so far as to say that he felt like “the scene would never end”. Overall, in terms of the cast, the only ones who did their job were Audrey Tautou (who can do no wrong, in my opinion) and Sir Ian McKellen, who was precise and effortless as always.Although Jean Reno (playing Bezu Fache) had more scenes than Alfred Molina, I wished that he exerted a little more effort in the role. What happened to his character, Bishop Aringarosa? He was barely even in the film! The same goes for Jean Reno, who’s also a brilliant actor. Now here’s another problem I had with the film: Alfred Molina is an excellent actor.A valiant attempt, though, I’ll give him that.
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Talented actor, very good-looking, but what happened here? What happened to the “hulking albino” that Brown describes so vividly in his novel? Bettany’s diction was really off–not that I know how to speak French–but I think he still brought with him the British accent that he had. I don’t think anyone can tell the difference if the guy is smiling or frowning. His facial expression never changed from the moment the film starts, up until the end. He comes off as a regular guy in a suit, with a really weird hair-do. Tom Hanks, in this movie, doesn’t at all come off as charming or scholarly. But for people who have read the book and were expecting a certain actor to fill the Langdon profile, Hanks doesn’t even come close to assuming this role. So what if they were friends from Apollo 13? It doesn’t make Hanks any more of a character match for the role of symbologist Robert Langdon.
How can you not be blown away by how boring the movie turned out to be? How can your mind not be boggled by how superdirector Ron Howard could botch this up? Incomparable to any film ever made? Sure.
If you’re waiting to hear news that summer blockbuster The Da Vinci Code was mind-blowing and incomparable to any film ever made, wait no more.
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