Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Sep 5, 2023 2/4

The filmmakers were so concerned about doing justice to the book’s ideas that they forgot there’s an audience to entertain.

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David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Feb 14, 2021

The Da Vinci Code jumps from remarkable location to remarkable location without generating memorable images or dramatic moments in a single one of them. It all becomes a blur.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Nov 18, 2020 7/10

It is foremost moviegoing entertainment - and only secondarily a condemnation of religious fanaticism.

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Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) May 8, 2020 1.5/5

Unwieldy scripting has the usually nimble Hanks tied down by tonnes of tongue-twisting expository dialogue.

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Alberto Abuín Espinof Feb 12, 2020

Exaggerated and absurd at all levels. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News Nov 19, 2019 B

An entertaining thriller with a solid cast and some genuinely intriguing moments.

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Sergio Benítez Espinof Aug 31, 2019

The failures of Howard's performance does not ruin an unstoppable entertainment that does not give rest and that takes the viewer on a journey in perpetual motion. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Beatriz Maldivia Espinof Jun 28, 2019

They haven't tried to enrich the story, or to give more nuances to the characters, or to increase the adventure and the thriller. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 5, 2019 3/4

The book was better.

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Zaki Hasan Zaki's Corner Nov 2, 2018 C+

About as suspenseful and involving an affair as sitting through a two-and-a-half hour college lecture on cryptology, with a Sunday sermon thrown in for good measure.

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Victoria Segal New Statesman Sep 26, 2017

By the end, the film degenerates into wishy-washy relativism of the school that says "the only thing that matters is what you believe", a real cop-out after the hectic Grail quest preceding it.

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Heather Huntington ReelzChannel.com Feb 9, 2011 6/10

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Dragan Antulov Draxblog Movie Reviews Dec 15, 2009 6/10

The exposition is actually the best and most valuable part of the film

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 30, 2009

Too meekly middlebrow to really affront

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Amy Nicholson I.E. Weekly May 14, 2009 D+

What seems credible on page is ludicrous in action.

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 2/5

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Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Feb 28, 2008 3/10

So intent on being faithful, The DaVinci Code forgets to be entertaining.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Jul 29, 2007 D

Any movie with a skulking albino assassin begs for campy, self-aware treatment, but Howard and scripter Akiva Goldsman serve it all up straight-faced.

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Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound Jul 14, 2007 2.5/4

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Kam Williams DallasBlack.com May 20, 2007 0/4

Who knows whether Dan Brown was motivated by a distaste for Catholicism or merely by money? Regardless, it seems dishonest for him to foist his debunked heresies on the gullible, unsuspecting public as if they're the God's honest truth.

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