Kind of boring For starter, I'm gonna put things that are good and bad in this movie, and then I'm gonna explain why. THE GOOD: Tom Hanks acting and the acting of the other actors as well, Hans Zimmer music, visual art, geographic locations. THE BAD (Everything else): Predictable plot, unconvincing scenes, too much drama for nothing and too much twist created for no obvious reason, too slow pace, exaggeration with everything else...
I read the first Dan Browns popular book "Da Vinci's Code", then saw the movie, which I didn't watched until the end, because it was simply too slow...too predictable...too boring. I thought it's because I first read the book. Of course, the whole story and all the small details that you read in a book can never be put that perfectly together in a 2 hour movie. That's fine, I thought: "ok, I'm gonna first watch this movie, then later will read the book, maybe that's the way it should go." Still, I didn't expected it to be an awesome movie, because the same director is making this movie.
It was as I predicted: too slow...too predictable...too boring. The time line in the movie is not linear, it's a bit mixed up, but not in a good way. There are simply to many visual sequences that appear as memories or scenes that happened in the past. They happen to often, most times they are the same ones, so it kind of insults the intelligence of the viewer. When the time comes to move on with the story, the memories appear again in a boring way to remind the viewer what happened. I mean,common, it's a Hollywood production, they can make this better. They put a lot of money into various locations, Venice, Florence, filmed all of the museums, historical places, there are great visuals and much effort put in this, Hans Zimmer music for Christ sake, you got Tom Hanks. Why can't you make a better movie ? The action scenes are so sloppy, unrealistic and stupid. For example there are like 100 special forces outside, evacuating everything, but on the end, Dr. Langhorn has to fight and wrestle against the terrorists, come on :)