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The Da Vinci Code

Hey everyone, long time no see eh? I hope your Memorial Day was good. Mine was. I went to see two movies. Yes; TWO movies! Both stared Ian McKellen. That is enough of a give away when letting who know what I saw. I "X-Men 3: The Last Stand" and "The Da Vinci Code." Since I will most likely write a review for X-Men on my website, I'm going to talk about "The Da Vinci Code" today. Which, if you guys are seeing this movie expecting a controversy, you are going to be EXTREMELY disappointed, as "The Da Vinci Code" is basically a remake of Indiana Jones!

Both movies feature college professors that are out to find artifacts from the Bible, both films have a beautiful lady following them on their journeys, and both movies have stupid storylines that redeem themselves with the cool action sequences. When I saw "The Da Vinci Code" yesterday, it was a pretty packed theater. The protestors were still in front of the theater. Guess the controversy is still strong. The problem began once the movie started. The movie starts out cool enough, with an old guy being chased by a monk with a gun, and ends up being shot.

Before he dies though, he manages to run to various places around the museum, hide keys, write sentences and codes with his blood, and then strip himself naked and positions himself in the shape of one of Da Vinci's famous drawings (the one with the naked man). This is all cool, until you realize that if this man conserved his strength, he might have lived long enough for the police and doctors to arrive at the museum and take him to a hospital (he triggered the alarm see). Meet Robert Langdon, a researcher of symbols and paintings.

He is called to the scene of the crime to see if he can discover why the old man wanted to be seen nude in the papers, when Langdon finds out he's really being summoned because he's a suspect. Once he finds that out, he starts running. And following clues. And running some more. Oh, there's a girl...running with him. In high heals. That can't be comfortable. Anyway, somewhere in all this running, they discover that Jesus might have gotten married to Mary Magnolon, and birthed a daughter...or something like that. Once the revelations started coming through, people started laughing. I mean REALLY laughing!

I guess most of the people walking into this movie were expecting something offensive. This idea could be offensive to some people, but it's just so silly that very few people could possibly entertain the ideas presented in the movie. The people that do entertain them, however, probably also still believe that there are alligators in the sewers. "The Da Vinci Code" is basically a chase movie. One that is decently made, but not particularly memorable. Heck, I can't really even see myself seeing the movie again. After two and a half hours of car chases and solved puzzles that seemed to difficult to even comprehend, I just had enough.

"The Da Vinci Code" is not a great movie. It's kind of fun, if you watch it knowing that it isn't going to be anything major, but it's too long, the story is pretty weak, and the acting is stiff (except for Sir Ian, God how I love that man). Of course, I don't really blame the actors for this, the characters themselves aren't very interesting or deep. All they do is run and solve puzzles. Not really much you can do there. In the end, I didn't really like "The Da Vinci Code" all that much. It had it's moments, but the movie was just so silly and trite. And long. My goodness, why on Earth was that movie almost three hours long when it was nothing but puzzles?

I'm just glad the movie ticket was bought for me. Thank God for promotional tickets inside discounted DVD's. Anyway, catch you guys later.

Currently Listening To: Michael Card - Joy In The Journey