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Friday, August 29, 2014
The Da Vinci Code
I loved the book and this film adapts that quite well. Sure, some things are lost in the translation process, and there isn't as much discussion and explanations about the background of the clues as much as I would have liked. The story's pacing is average, it can feel bloated during the middle and the ending felt stretched, like an extra long epilogue. Granted, it is there to serve as a proper conclusion to the whole fiasco. The treasure hunting style of plot could have made for a very intense movie but there was rarely a moment where that was the case. It did tease you with shrouding the antagonist in mystery until the end and some of the other minor antagonists gets on your nerves. Not because they were annoying or were bad performances, but due to their actions you can't help but side against them. Some of the more prominent characters felt pointless, you would think with all their screentime that they would have a bigger significance to the plot.