Post by Capo on Jul 7, 2008 17:48:36 GMT
The Da Vinci Code
Ron Howard 2005 | USA
A professor in religious symbolism is drawn into a scandalous secret when his name is discovered at the scene of a murder in the Louvre.
Structurally, with its fragmented opening, complex, double-crossing plot and a hero in over his head, this vaguely resembles Marathon Man, the kind of intelligent thriller not made these days. That is not to say, however, that Howard's adaptation of a bestselling novel rejuvenates the mystery or thriller genre; it is fairer to say that it is, perhaps disappointingly, though certainly expectedly, a pager-turner translated to moving images: as empty as it is watchable, with little charm in any of its characters or flair in any of its many set-pieces.
Ron Howard 2005 | USA
A professor in religious symbolism is drawn into a scandalous secret when his name is discovered at the scene of a murder in the Louvre.
Structurally, with its fragmented opening, complex, double-crossing plot and a hero in over his head, this vaguely resembles Marathon Man, the kind of intelligent thriller not made these days. That is not to say, however, that Howard's adaptation of a bestselling novel rejuvenates the mystery or thriller genre; it is fairer to say that it is, perhaps disappointingly, though certainly expectedly, a pager-turner translated to moving images: as empty as it is watchable, with little charm in any of its characters or flair in any of its many set-pieces.