The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Location: Maxi-Saver
Seen Before: No
Rating: * 1/2

Ron Howard has done an unbelievably good job of taking Dan Brown's pitifully dull prose and turning it into equally pathetic images on the screen. This whole thing is so laughable and hollow that it almost knocked me off of my seat. I found the book contained a fascinating story, but Howard can't pinch an ounce of life into this awful mess; 95% of the time I felt completely uninvolved with what was happening. This is, perhaps, a career low for Tom Hanks and, as for Howard, he already made The Grinch That Stole Christmas, so what was I really expecting?