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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2006-05-21 01:09 am
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this will probably be an unnecessary spoiler cut

If I'm not the last English speaker left who hasn't read The Da Vinci Code, lord knows I'm among them, so there's probably no need to cut for spoilers, but I'll do it anyway on principle.

Did anyone else think the movie was a sort of workmanlike B-plus?  (It gets the plus, I should add, from the production values rather than from the script or, bless them, the performances.)  I was actually very disappointed when Audrey turned out to be the Heir of Slytherin Magdalene -- the minute they started talking about how that was the whole point, I assumed she was it, and I was really sort of expecting a twist in the form of Oh, the Heir is actually Tom/Sir Ian/the cop/Alfred Molina/anyone but the obvious choice, i.e. the girl.  (Though I wouldn't have bought it if it had turned out to be Paul Bettany, I admit.)  So in the complete lack of twist, I felt like I hadn't actually been watching a mystery or anything suspenseful after all.

And it had more endings than Return of the King, I swear.

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