With Tom Hanks and Ian Mckellan playing lead roles, I had high expectations for this on screen adaption and yet I felt the movie was fairly boring, fragmented in parts and slow pace. Tom Hanks wasn't convincing as Robert Langdon though he does look a lot like the Harvard Professor. Mckellan was brilliant as always, stealing every scene from the rest of the actors and although he didn't have to do much, except participate in kinky rituals with a whip and look tormented and scary at the same time, the actor who portrayed Silas did an excellent job of it. Nice make up to. He should do a Bond film. They also took quite a few liberties with the original story story but I suspect that the appeal of the books comes from the narrative, which was laden with heavy symbology, something the movie couldn't really do without burdening the plot with excessive dialogue and a bad voice over.
2006-10-14
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