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(1 - 50) of 60 OFCS Rating: 27% Rotten Page   12   > Next B+ "It doesn't fit the standard mold of the summer season (this seems much more like a Fall release), but The Da Vinci Code is a mystery worth the indulgence."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 1.5/5 "Indeed, everything about The Da Vinci Code is insular and insipid. Somewhere inside this creaky, crappy film is a real adventure romp waiting to be revealed."   DVD Verdict   Bill Gibron B "It's a long trip around religious theories and elaborate puzzles, but it's a trip worth taking for some slow-burn decoding delights."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Where's Ed Harris when you need him?"   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "Howard's relentlessly gloomy tone will have viewers sleeping on the edge of their seats."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2/5 "I cannot vouch for the novel, but the movie is a remarkably underwhelming experience."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius C+ "Monotonous, colorless and entirely too serious, the film self-flagellates all the fun out of Dan Brown's story."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "...sporadically engaging but mostly dull..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3/5 "It's a Ron Howard film. Meaning, just good enough to not suck."   eFilmCritic.com   Dawn Taylor C "Gutless."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "An old-school thriller just as heavy on intellect and thought-provoking ideas as it is on chase sequences and shootouts."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D "It is simply one of those movies which may have been made with the best of intentions but tries to appeal to too many people to be remotely interesting."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens 2/5 "Un thriller menor que probablemente aburrirá a quienes hayan leído la novela y aturdirá con su confusa trama a quienes no sepan nada de la historia."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio C+ "Where it really goes wrong is in taking itself so darned seriously."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "Ron Howard plays it too safe keeping fans of the book in line, objectors at bay and alienates anyone coming into the hype with thoughts of 'that's what everyone is up in arms about?'"   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress D "Some of my best friends have read and enjoyed The DaVinci Code, and I will do my best not to hold that against them."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "Un filme ordinario y medianamente competente, a ratos entretenido, pero que habría pasado desapercibido si no tuviese a la Iglesia Católica como villana en una época en donde la animosidad hacia esta última y su impopularidad están en niveles tan altos."   Doncinema.com   Flavio J. Arosemena 2/4 "...feels relentlessly disjointed and garrulous. Consequently, this Da Vinci doesn't paint a pretty picture when it comes to tossing around its chaotic clues."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C- "It doesn't take a great code-breaker to decipher the fact that for all the elaborate theorizing and running about in it, this movie is awfully empty-headed and flat-footed."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "Opens the door for many spiritual seekers to think afresh about Jesus, sexuality, the Sacred Feminine and the great mysteries that cannot be contained in dogmas."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "One could classify The Da Vinci Code as diverting, but it has sidestepped greatness by a wide margin."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/5 "The Da Vinci Code is Exhibit A in how things that work on the page don’t always translate on-screen."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 5/10 "[A] wishy-washiness and its general tonal flatness betray a clock-punching mentality the cast and crew seem to have adopted for its production."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "It's sad to see Hanks, who usually tackles any role with such earnest enthusiasm, phoning it in, though I suppose it's to his credit that he can't quite seem to take Langdon seriously."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox 4.5/10 "McKellen's character tells them 'you two are anything but dull.' Alas, the same can't be said about the film."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 5/10 "...overblown so-so suspense flick..."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/5 "Perhaps an interesting side-piece to those already fanatical about the book, but ultimately a lifeless adaptation that reveals the flaws of its source. So Dark, the Con of Dan Brown."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi "The Da Vinci Code is just another summer movie for people who like pulp in their cinematic orange juice."   Light Views   John Larsen 5/10 "I've solved The Da Vinci Code -%u2013 here is its secret: Zzzzzzzzzzz."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "This two-and-a-half hour effort to negotiate the terrain between MI3 and My Dinner with André ultimately leads nowhere."   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards 3/5 "."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 4/5 "It still had the necessary element of Encyclopedia Brown cerebellus-ex-machina, but it was visually interesting and didn't slow down the action with book-digging%u2026they made the film well, they just took the path of least resistance, and for that I can"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2.0/4.0 "No audience member left behind. Asleep maybe, but not behind."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3/5 "So, does The Da Vinci Code live up to the hype? Sort of. It's not a terrible film by any stretch, but it's not perfect either."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr "The filmmaking here is at times inexcusably awkward and clumsy."   Pretentious Musings   Kevin Koehler 3/4 "Like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, with less humor and action, but more intriguing ideas."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C "How dark the con of Ron - The Da Vinci Code plays sort of like National Treasure with any sense of fun sucked out of it."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "Only Ian McKellan seems to understand the profound silliness of the film in which he finds himself, and he camps it up accordingly; the rest of the cast soldiers grimly through this preposterous, 148-minute marathon looking understandably exhausted."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 7/10 "For once we have a thriller that is 90% idea and 10% action rather than the other way around."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "Think of all the great men throughout entertainment history who have sought the Holy Grail: King Arthur. Indiana Jones. MacGyver. Robert Langdon? See, it just doesn't work."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "It would have taken a more imaginative approach and vision not within the reach of Howard and Goldsman to make the material come alive as a movie."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 1.5/5 "It's hard to comprehend how a film with so much questioning and answering between characters has less character development than Poseidon."   Film Threat   Michael Ferraro 2/5 "Like a revved-up show and tell: call it show and tell and tell again."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "The Da Vinci Code is baloney, but as a film, I have to admit that it's entertaining baloney."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "The book was more cinematic than its on-screen version so that the very act of adapting it throws it out of balance. What is left to the imagination in the book comes across as heavy-handed and over the top on screen."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1/4 "Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a marriage made in mediocrity."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "Por que assumir um projeto que se tornou célebre justamente por despertar uma enorme polêmica se você não terá coragem de abraçá-la?"   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3/5 "At least the theological controversy doesn't swamp the fun."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "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."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "Not even Ian McKellan can bring it to life... and when Ian McKellan throws in the towel, you know the difficulties are too large to fix."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux  (1 - 50) of 60 OFCS Rating: 27% Rotten Page   12   > Next