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The Da Vinci Code [2006] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Ron Howard Actors: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy Used: £1.10 as of 22/11/2009 09:26 GMT details You Save: £18.89 (94%) New (35) Used (40) Collectible (1) from £1.10 Seller: stuffusell Rating: 56 reviews Sales Rank: 742 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 143 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5035822086272 ASIN: B000LRZH3C Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Release Date: January 15, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Reviews Critics and controversy aside, iThe Da Vinci Code/i is a verifiable blockbuster. Combine the film's huge worldwide box-office take with over 100 million copies of Dan Brown's book sold, and iThe Da Vinci Code/i has clearly made the leap from pop-culture hit to a certifiable franchise (games and action figures are sure to follow). The leap for any story making the move from book to big screen, however, is always more perilous. In the case of iThe Da Vinci Code/i, the story is concocted of such a preposterous formula of elements that you wouldn't envy Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter who was handed a potentially unfilmable book and asked to make a filmable script out of it. Goldsman's solution was to have the screenplay follow the book as closely as possible, with a few needed changes, including a better ending. The result is a film that actually makes slightly better entertainment than the book.p So if you're like most of the world, by now you've read the book and know that it starts out as a murder mystery. While lecturing in Paris, noted Harvard Professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by French police help decipher a bizarre series of clues left at the scene of the murder of the chief curator, Jacques Sauniere. Enter Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), gifted cryptologist and Sauniere's granddaughter. Neveu and Langdon are forced to team up to solve the mystery, and from there the story is propelled across Europe as it balloons into a modern-day mini-quest for the Holy Grail, complete with alternative theories about the life of Christ, ancient secret societies headed by historical figures like Leonardo Da Vinci, secret codes, conniving bishops, daring escapes, car chases, and, of course, a murderous albino monk controlled by a secret master who calls himself "The Teacher."p Taken solely as a mystery thriller, the movie almost works--despite some gaping holes--mostly just because it keeps moving forward at the breakneck pace set in the book. Brown's greatest trick might have been to have the entire story take place in a day so that the action is forced to keep going, despite some necessary pauses for exposition. Hanks and Tautou are just fine together but not exactly a memorable screen pair; meanwhile, Sir Ian McKellen's scenery-chewing as pivotal character Sir Leigh Teabing is just what the film needs to keep it from taking itself too seriously. In the end, this hit movie is just like a good roller-coaster ride: try not to think too much about it--just sit back and enjoy the trip. i--Daniel Vancini, Amazon.com/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 56 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...12 Next » Better than given credit for February 1, 2007 M. C. Batson (UK) 6 out of 8 found this review helpful I read the book when it came out and loved it, it's one of the best books I have read!! br /When I heard they were making a film from the book I was a little worried because I didn't want them to spoil how good the book was. Hearing Tom Hanks was playing the lead role I just couldn't imagine it and hoped he would do the part justice. br /I got this DVD the day it came out and I couldn't wait to watch it and I wasn't disappointed. The most disappointed I was was with Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon because he looks the part (kinda) but he isn't how I fully pictured the character and this ruins it slightly for me. br /But the story is amazing (there is big chunks cut out and bits changed) and it kept me on the edge of my seat waiting for the next bit of the puzzle to unravel. br /The scences were great as was the directing and the acting. This is now one my my favourite films and I adore it. br /Buy it, if you haven't already!! br / Great suspense on essential ideology January 8, 2007 Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France) 8 out of 14 found this review helpful This DVD, like the film, might not be a masterpiece. This DVD, like the film, might not be everlasting. This DVD, like the film, might not be like a good wine that improves with decades of aging or a good cheese that gets finer and finer with weeks and months of patient loving care in some cool cave or cellar. But this film is the most inevitable and unfathomable film of many years, just like the book it has grown out of, just like the DVD now with its extra 25 minutes and its two hours of extra resources. Don't ever try to watch it in French. It has to be watched and enjoyed in English, that is to say in its multilingual version : English, French, Italian and Latin. It has to be appreciated in its shooting language to enjoy the subtle finesse of the contrasting accents of the actors and actresses. The French actors and actresses are nicely airing some kind of light French flavoring, while the Americans and English actors and actresses are mesmerising and hypnotising us with the two mid-Atlantic and British linguistic brothers, though avoiding the Scottish cousin that could have sprinkled the end with its gravelly roughness. You will enjoy the scenery : the Louvre of course, but also Westminster Abbey, which is revealed in the DVD as being nothing but Lincoln's cathedral (a film is the ultimate illusion but a DVD is the ultimate revelation), Saint Sulpice's and Rosslyn's Chapel, Place de la Concorde and various Triumph Arks (an allusion to the albino Noah's ark ?), the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben, the French police and their distant cousins from Scotland Yard, the nicely sectarian Opus Dei and the just as much sectarian anti-religious French spirit. You will let yourself dive and delve deep into the mysteries and the riddles, the enigmas and the secret codes, just for the fun of a nice red apple that you will get at the end of the game and present to your teacher in divinities, Dan Brown or Tom Hanks who are benedictally brown nosing with us and maybe with the catholic church. You will discover a crypt under Rosslyn Chapel that the Saint Clair owners refuse to acknowledge. Maybe it does not exist. You will imagine a crypt under the Louvre's inverted pyramid that President Mitterrand secretly buried as a homage to the Merovingian kings (since he believed he was the new King of France), to Jesus Christ who has always inspired French politicians who are obviously sacrificing their many lives to the cross of politics, to the masonic pyramid of the famous greenback dreamt by Benjamin Franklin when he was strolling along the Seine river as the first US ambassador to Paris a couple of centuries ago, and Mitterrand has always imagined himself as being God in person, the father of that poor Jesus. You will in your turn dream of Mary Magdalene, the chalice of a promise, Jesus Christ, the silice of a Passion, and Leonardo Da Vinci, the most ambiguous vision and smile of a Mona Lisa who has forever captivated the attention of the world's past present and future innumerable generations. You will probably never get an answer to all your questions but at least you will get the questions and be able to store them in the back of your mind, in some drawer in the portmanteau of your brain. Enjoy the trip and intensify it with a dose of claustrophobia, if you can get one from some street dealer of quick extra-terrestrial pleasures in some Parisian park or garden for the pathetic sum of fifty euros (I defy you to find a junky ready to sell you his equipment for the miserable sum of fifty euros, even in the Bois de Boulogne). And the DVD will not answer any question but will add some more mysteries and secrets to the list of all those you have already accumulated through the book, the film and now the extended version of the DVD. br / br /Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne br / THIS IS A GREAT FILM.....with only a few minor flaws!! June 13, 2007 Terry Manning (UK) 4 out of 7 found this review helpful It's always a very difficult task to adapt a massively successful book for the big screen, so director Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the screenplay, were never going to please everyone!! br / br /I loved Dan Brown's novel and I thoroughly enjoyed this film, and fail to see why there have been so many negative reviews. It's by and large faithful to the book (with one or two plot simplifications), the action cracks along at pace, and the casting is excellent. Most importantly though, I think the film captures the 'spirit' of the book. br / br /Tom Hanks is perfect as Robert Langdon (Dan Brown never intended R.L. to be an Indiana Jones type character!) Sir Ian Mckellen is on top form as Sir Leigh Teabing (even though he bears no physical resemblance to the fictional character he plays) and Jean Reno, Audrey Tautou and Alfred Molina are all excellent. However, it's Paul Bettany's intense and menacing portrayal of Silas that completely steals the show. (There really should have been a 'Best Supporting Actor' nomination!) br / br /Several reviewers have pointed out the differences from the book, especially the ending, but in my opinion they do not detract from what is a well written, well cast and fast paced movie. Unfortunately the 'purists' out there will always look to find fault (as if they could do better!), but for myself I could only criticize one or two small details. For example, in the book Silas drives an Audi and in the film it's a Renault (rumour has it this was to keep the French happy, as much of the film was of course shot on location there!!) br / br /If you have not read the book I urge you to do so before seeing the DVD as it will help you to fully appreciate how good this movie is....just ignore those negative reviews!! what a conversation piece January 19, 2008 googly bear (Greece) 1 out of 3 found this review helpful This film is a thought provoking masterpiece. I watched the film, then read the book, then watched the film again. My husband and I are still discussing the challenging ideas. For those of you who could not understand the film I can only recomend that you watch Mrs Doughtfire which is an easier film to understand!! Lynne's Review of the Da Vinci Code May 4, 2008 Lynne Cameron (Scotland) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful I would say it is a good film and story if you could understand what it is about, perhaps i should say I should have read the book first as i have not read it, but all in all a good story and well acted Showing reviews 1-5 of 56 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...12 Next »

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