Da Vinci Code

"Da Vinci Code"

Watched English movie 'Da Vinci Code', directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Audry Tautou and Ian McKellen in lead roles and Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina, Jean Reno in supporting roles. Story is by Dan Brown. This movie released in Dec 2006. I watched this film with Mihika. 

This movie is based on Dan Brown's book by the same name. It's a very famous and brilliant book, hence, I will not go into the story.

Tom Hanks does justice to the character of Robert Langdon. He plays the role so well that you can't imagine any other actor for the role. Audry is good as Sophie. Ian plays cripple Sir Leigh convincingly. Other actors also do justice to their roles. 

Generally when a book is made into a movie, a number of details are lost due to time constraints and the story is changed for "convenience" or "artistic liberty". As a result the movie is generally not as enjoyable as the book. 

This movie, however, is an exception. Here director stays true to the story and captures the essence of story in the movie. Director deserves the praise for it. However, many details had to be done away with. In short, the movie does justice to the book. 

Trivia: Although this book was published after 'Angles and demons', this movie came before that.

Recommend watching this movie. Also recommend reading the book.