The Da Vinci Code PG 13
The controversial bestseller that riffed ideas from a dozen other guys that already explored the Mary line thing and the Knights Templar thing and the Holy Grail thing, becomes an even more convoluted movie, with Tom Hanks in it. Ooh, runaway hit, right? Wrong. Unfortunately the book doesn't translate well into a movie. It plods along for over 2 hours bringing up clues and twists, evil guys, crazy guys, a murder, a case, and some kind of link to an ancient order that could be the untold marital line of Christ. That would be if that really happened and Christ didn't die pure and sinless on the cross and get resurrected, but actually slept with Mary Magdeline, which is blasphemous. By now everyone has read the book, so they know what to expect from the movie. Too bad most of them will be disappointed in the results. Dan Brown even said on a documentary it was fiction. Even so, the premise from the star is based on a French guy that lied, as it turned out, to cover up the fact that he wasn't of the royal bloodline, so he made up his own bloodline, based on him being a descendant of Mary. Nobody saw through the charade until the 1980s when someone finally did so fact checking and figured out the guy forged his entire collection. It still sits in a Paris museum though. Ha.
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