Below is an excerpt from a review I published at YMX.
From the very first moments it was clear that the
movie and novel would lead down separate paths. While the book boldly
presented this conspiracy of a Messiah marriage in its opening
paragraphs the films first moment made it clear that murder mystery would prevail over the sub-theme of conspiracy.
Robert
Langdon is a Harvard professor specializing in religious symbology. He
is in Paris to promote a new book and his audience is griped by his
notion that symbols are everywhere. His book signing is
interrupted as a French officer asks for his help in solving a murder
at Paris’s second most famous tourist attraction, The Louvre.
For the next two and a half hours the viewer is taken on a treasure hunt as Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and Agent Sophie Nouveau (Audrey Tautou)
search for the clues behind the murder turned Holy Grail quest, all the
while being pursued by an Opus Dei assassin and French authorities.
It’s
a well-known story which houses a better known conspiracy against
Christianity. While the movies story is complicated it is not well
told. [Read the rest]
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