Overhype Da Vinci
The more famous the film, the less I feel inclined to write about it. Especially after so much ink has been pored over it. If you have read the book, this is distinctly less gripping. It is a reasonably made thriller with a very interesting subject to explore but despite Ron Howard’s painstaking efforts at momentum, it comes across as being all rather bland, except for Ian McKellen as the duplicitous Leigh Teabing. 
Hanks and Tautou are mere cyphers 
and there is too little time really spent on the Opus Dei part (for obvious reasons). 
So, at the end, we may well ask ourselves – and is that all? Because despite the importance of the topic, the film has limited itself to the format of a very predictable action movie and that is not really the best vehicle for all this. Hans Zimmer’s music overpowers, as it often does, and the script and photography do the necessary, no more. Mechanical and soulless.
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