Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman's reverent adaptation of Dan Brown's best-seller accomplishes the remarkable feat of transforming a book whose big type and little chapters seem more suited to a beach read than a densely researched historical mystery into a film, one that feels in fact longer than the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. Denounced by the Vatican as an affront to the faithful by virtue of a plot predicated on the notion that generations of ravening zealots in clerical clothing have conspired to conceal the faith-shattering fact that Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and had a child, the book's manifest liabilities — ludicrous cliff-hanger plotting, windy exposition...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
149 mins