![]() ![]() Needing help, Sophie calls on Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a leading symbologist from the United States. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), a gifted cryptographer who is also the victim's granddaughter. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds, with strange symbols carved into his body and left around the spot where he died. ![]() Try it, you'll like it-especially if you like the book. Overall, this movie is still worth watching over and over because it is so visually beautiful. It ruined what could have been an extraordinary adaptation of a book to the screen! The chase in the movie is to find both the Opus Dei murderers and the remaining heirs as well.īut what is so disappointing was the ending, which was entirely different from the book and really not as forceful. Opus Dei wants to find them and perhaps murder them. Supposedly, the Priory is protecting the remaining heirs of Jesus's marriage to Mary Magdalene. The sto ry revolves around the 20 Century Old feud between the two Roman Catholic sects known as the Priory de Sion and Opus Dei. Ian McKellan as Professor Leigh Teabing is also great as a mysterious helper in the story. ![]() It's too bad that a young Audrey Hepburn or Sophia Loren could not have played Sofie. Special and granddaughter of the Louvre victim, Agent Sofie Neveu (Audrey Tautou)is believable as his accomplice but is not electrifying in the part. Tom Hanks is great as Robert Langdon, an antiquities expert who gets pulled into the mystery of the Louvre curator's murder. The settings in the book truly come to life as Ron Howard captured the essences of the locales. It is beautifully made with some of the most picturesque scenery ever shown in a movie: the Louvre, the Temple Church, Westminster Abbey, and finally Roslyn Church. As a big fan of the best-selling book, I was disappointed in the movie. ![]()
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