Needing help, Sophie calls on Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a leading symbologist from the United States. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), a gifted cryptographer who is also the victim's granddaughter. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds, with strange symbols carved into his body and left around the spot where he died. Not enough pleasure.Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from Director Ron Howard.

(.) 'Da Vinci' never rises to the level of a guilty pleasure. In other words, for those who bear witness to the film 'The Da Vinci Code,' what you see depends on what you believe. For those who love the book's page-turning intensity, the movie version heightens Brown's mischievous interweaving of genre action, historical facts and utter fictions. 'For those who hate Dan Brown's best-selling symbology thriller 'The Da Vinci Code,' the eagerly awaited and much-hyped movie version beautifully exposes all its flaws and nightmares of logic. Which is not to say I'm recommending you go see it.' (A. (.) I certainly can't support any calls for boycotting or protesting this busy, trivial, inoffensive film. 'A 'Da Vinci Code' That Takes Longer to Watch Than Read. (.) Rating: *** (out of 4).' (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times) (.) The movie works it's involving, intriguing and constantly seems on the edge of startling revelations. (.) Dan Brown's novel is utterly preposterous Ron Howard's movie is preposterously entertaining. All clues point to a covert religious organization that will stop at nothing to protect a secret that threatens to overturn 2,000 years of accepted dogma. Produced by OscarÆ-winner Brian Grazer and John Calley, The Da Vinci Code, begins with a spectacular murder in the Louvre Museum.

Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman, the OscarÆ-winning director and writer of A Beautiful Mind, reunite to bring Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, one of the most popular and controversial novels of our time, to the big screen with a cast headed by two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Sir Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina. Mathematics Movie Groups Dan Brown Adaptations Synopsis A murder in the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years - which could shake the foundations of Christianity. Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment Genre Mystery.

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