Friday, May 19, 2006
Endless reviews of The Da Vinci Code
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Here's a roundup of The Da Vinci Code reviews. Maybe I'll write my own after I see the film.- "A jumbled, joyless affair that neither entertains nor enlightens." — Shawn Adler, IGN FILMFORCE
- "The script explains everything twice, spelling out the big words three times, so that even if you've never heard of Jesus or Mary Magdalene you can still figure out this story." — Jeffrey M. Anderson, COMBUSTIBLE CELLULOID
- "The Da Vinci Code" is essentially just another average Hollywood thriller. Nothing more." — Angela Baldassarre, SYMPATICO.CA
- "Every time Langdon starts to educate Sophie, the urge to tune out is overwhelming." — Josh Bell, LAS VEGAS WEEKLY
- "Opens the door for many spiritual seekers to think afresh about Jesus, sexuality, the Sacred Feminine and the great mysteries that cannot be contained in dogmas." — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND PRACTICE
- "A film that never rises beyond the workmanlike to the inspired." — Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
- "So, does The Da Vinci Code live up to the hype? Sort of. It's not a terrible film by any stretch, but it's not perfect either." — Kevin Carr, 7M PICTURES
- "Ron Howard plays it too safe keeping fans of the book in line, objectors at bay and alienates anyone coming into the hype with thoughts of 'that's what everyone is up in arms about?'" — Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
- "...[A] jigsaw puzzle [that] turns out to be a lot less fun than you hoped it would be when you started piecing it together." — Carol Cling, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
- "I’ll say it: It is anti-Jesus and anti-Catholic. Unintentionally though, it is a recruiting film for Opus Dei. Where do I sign up?" — Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
- "... [M]ore entertaining and satisfying than the novel." — William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
- "You know a movie's a dud when even its self-flagellating albino killer monk isn't any fun. " — John Beifuss, COMMERCIAL APPEAL (MEMPHIS, TN)
- "Ron Howard's beautifully framed The Da Vinci Code sticks to author Dan Brown's controversial wild goose-chase thriller pretty religiously." — Kit Bowen, HOLLYWOOD.COM
- "The problem is the pace, which suffers when demands of explication force Howard to pull his foot off the gas." — Greg Burk, L.A. WEEKLY
- "Too measured to be lively, too skittish to be provocative, too dramatically slack to be more than a ploddingly literal book-on-film." — Peter Canavese, GROUCHO REVIEWS
- "[A] wishy-washiness and its general tonal flatness betray a clock-punching mentality the cast and crew seem to have adopted for its production." — Jeffrey Chen, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
- "At least the theological controversy doesn't swamp the fun." — Rich Cline, SHADOWS ON THE WALL
- "For people who insist that the movie is never as good as the book, your case just got stronger." — Matt Pais, METROMIX.COM
- "Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman struggle mightily to cram as much as possible of Dan Brown's labyrinthine thriller into a 2-hour-28-minute running time, resulting in a movie both overstuffed and underwhelming." — David Ansen, NEWSWEEK
- "One could classify The Da Vinci Code as diverting, but it has sidestepped greatness by a wide margin." — James Berardinelli, REELVIEWS
- "The movie is so nervous about offending anyone that it's hardly any fun." — Jami Bernard, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
- "Absent is the pure guilty joy of sequential puzzle-solving; instead of participating in the hunt, we're shoved off to the side as a couple of crashing boors do it for us." — Amy Biancolli, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
- "As a film derived from a book, The Da Vinci Code isn't a fiasco on the order of The Bonfire of the Vanities nor is it a triumph a la The Lord of the Rings. Instead, it's an acceptable but uninspired simulacrum." — Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
- "...[I]t's not very good — long (2hr. 32min.) and mostly inert." — Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE
- "Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller is punishingly long, dramatically overwrought and fatally short on the thrills we demand from summertime blockbusters." — Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
- "On film, The Da Vinci Code is not so much a fascinating puzzle as a prolonged slog through material that resists the screen." — Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
- "The movie works; it's involving, intriguing and constantly seems on the edge of startling revelations." — Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
- "...[T]he more you liked the book, the more likely you are to like the movie." —
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
'Nuff said.
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