::READERS REVIEWS::

The Da Vinci Code Blue - ray - Great Movie and very entertaning with lots of action. Great Blue-ray experience. Recommended to all! Thanks, John

Timely Delivery - This DVD was delivered promptly and in perfect condition. I enjoyed the music and the thoughtful portrayal brought to the screen by the actors. An interesting storyline well directed.

"The Da Vinci Code Movie Thriller Par Excellence" - The movie is a fast paced provocative thriller as the book spanning Paris (France), London (UK) and Scotland. Ron Howard really made the book to come alive in this one with Tom Hanks leading as professor Langdon (Harvard Symbology Professor).It tackles concepts of religion, humanity & deceit brilliantly. Religious issues concerning Christianity & Roman Catholic Church are dealt well using recent Gnostic Gospels' research findings by many scholars. These issues are however controversial as they are against well established doctrine from the Bible & Roman Catholic Church or Christianity. Movie is the best provocative thriller I have seen recently and deserves more than five stars!

The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) Im a Tom Hanks fan so this will probably be typical. An excellent movie with lots of action and a good plot. I liked it, and would recomend it.

Bonnie - Really enjoyed this series of stories about Robert Langdon. I really wanted to own this so I could watch it again especially in Blue Ray version.

"The Da Vinci Code Movie Thriller Par Excellence" - This movie is a fast paced provocative thriller like in the book spanning Paris (France), London (UK) and Scotland. Ron Howard really made the book to come alive in this one with Tom Hanks leading as professor Langdon (Harvard Symbology Professor).The movie tackles concepts of religion, humanity & deceit brilliantly. Religious issues concerning Christianity & Roman Catholic Church are dealt well using recent Gnostic Gospels' research findings by many scholars and of course also the hidden messages in the paintings by Leornado Da Vinci! These religious issues are however controversial as conclusions in this movie are against well established doctrine from the Bible & Roman Catholic Church or Christianity. This movie is the best provocative thriller I have seen in a long time and certainly deserves more than five stars!

Gift for him - Purchased this DVD for my niece's mate and I think he watched it once. Not a very thrilling movie. Loved the hype, but movie is a yawn.

4 1/2 stars for an intriguing look at our relgious "foundations" - Whether or not you believe in Dan Brown's mixture of historical facts mixed with a blend of hypotheses and extrapolations all bound up in a grand symbological mutli-million unit selling mystery novel(released in 2003)or not,is really of no consequence.The Roman Catholic Church whose foundation his novel questions was none too pleased at the time and(typical of the Church)issued memos to its' flock not to either read the book nor attend the subsequent movie's release.Of course,according to the Church,it was all bogus from beginning to end.Me thinks they did protest too much!
The movie takes Brown's writings and brings them to the screen in an intelligent and attractive manner all served up(and there is ALOT to serve up!)in a fast paced and unrelenting style that keeps you glued to the screen from the beginning to the very end.
The Da Vinci Code(released May/06) involves the story of a symbologist/cryptonalyst by the name of Robert Langdon(Tom Hanks).He is giving a lecture in Paris and attends a book signing after when he is approached by the police,one Capt.Fache(Jean Reno),to assist them in a murder that has just been committed in the Louvre.It turns out to be a friend of Langdon's by the name of Sauniere and the body has many mysterious symbols about it.Landon doesn't know it but the police captain suspects him of doing the dirty deed.A police cryptologist Sophie Neveu(Audrey Tautou)arrives and gets Langdon alone.He is in danger she says and must leave and moreover the man who was murdered was her grandfather.
They escape and head to a bank with a key her grandfather left to her.It is a key to a safety deposit box which contains a small wooden box,in which is a cryptex.It is a cylindrical container surrounded with letters that must be arranged in a certain way to open it successfully.If not done properly a vial inside releases a potion of vinegar which destroys the contents.From here the pair seek out a Holy Grail expert-friend of Langdon's ,a Mr Teabing(Ian McKellan).They discuss the ins and outs of the Grail and the Church's earliest days and beginnings,right back to Christ himself and whether he was supernatural or just a man,when the police track them down.They all escape to London with the French police captain still in pursuit.
In London Langdon(assisted throughout by Neveu) tracks down an important clue to locate the Grail but they are confronted by Teabing who wants the box and cryptex it contains.Langdon turns away to try and decode the cryptex but when he turns back he throws it into the air which cracks the inner vile and destroys the contents.At this moment the police enter and Teabing is arrested,not Landon nor Neveu.It seems the French captain has been played for a dupe by the dark shadows of the Church who also want the Grail's location and he has come to his senses.Well,it turns out Langdon did indeed crack the code and has the parchment paper from inside.In it the directions lead them both to a Church in the countryside of England where they find that the Grail they seek was indeed once there but has been moved.However they also find the guardians of the Grail,a group dedicated to preserving the Grail and its' location.We also find out the Grail was/is Neveu herself;as she is from a royal blood line descended from Christ himself through Mary Magdeline his wife.The movie ends with much of the clues that have inundated Langdon's mind throughout his arduous journey,coming together and him walking to the front of the Louvre museum in Paris and kneeling and praying over the spot where the bodily remains of Mary Magdeline secretly lay.
The movie moves along at breakneck speed and makes brief stops for the viewers to catch their collective breaths and try and take in much of what is going on before them.There are alot of clues and alot of information to digest here.But in the end the ultimate conflict here is again wrapped around a good guys-bad guys scenario.On the bad guy side is the Opus Dei depicted here as a shadowy form of the Vatican that is trying to keep hidden and even search out and destroy any vestige or hint of the Grail,i.e. the remains of Mary Magdeline and a possible bloodline.On the good side we have the keepers of the faith with the Priory of Scion and their more well known arm the Knights Templar.These guardians(and their many descendants)have fought the good fight for centuries in order to keep the truth alive,but hidden from harms way,i.e the Vatican.Brown's novel and the resultant movie never preach their story to us and let us make our own minds up.As I said before this story is based on old historical fact mixed with legends and the resultant extrapolations of the two.Near the end of the movie a conversation between Langdon and Neveu really says it all about the novel,movie and their goal.Langdon asks Neveu would revealing herself as a direct descendant of Christ bring about destruction of the Church or a new reconnaissance of it? Intriguing question to an intriguing....theory? Open minds is what it is all about.
This movie is one of Ron Howard's better efforts and deserves high praise for his deft handling of the complex material.The movie contains a solid roster of actors from Hanks,McKellan to French star Jean Reno and Germany's Jurgen Prochnow.Paul Bettany as Silas does a great turn as a conflicted and tortured puppet of the Opus Dei's bidding.
Technically the movie is presented in its original 2:40:1 aspect ratio and has been transferred wonderfully,sound included.Extras abound in this two disc set.We have featurettes "Filmmakers Journey Pt's 1 & 2",Music of the DC",a DC demo DVD game,"Portrait of Langdon","Who is Sophie Neveu?","The Usual Suspects","Magical Places","Close up of the Mona Lisa",a discussion with Dan Brown,first day on the set with the director and a look at many of the hidden codes placed smartly throughout the film itself.Everything you wanted to know about the DC but hadn't even thought to ask!
All in all a well done and intriguing thriller/novel brought deftly to the big screen by Ron Howard and now to DVD,in a fast 141 minutes.It's a solid cast and a highly recommended film worthy of repeated viewings to catch many of the clues that you may have missed the first time.Enjoy.

great movie - My son requested this movie, he really likes it and will probably share with his whole platoon in Iraq.

Great Movie - mediocre Blu-Ray picture. - More than enough has been said about the movie itself. If your a fan you'll probably find value in the Extended Cut additional footage and features but the blu-ray version just doesnt have a huge improvement in picture quality over the dvd version like you find with most movies. While the picture is better, as an upgrade it's very disappointing. (rating blu-ray extended cut, #16123, released 2009)

Not really made for a TV set - This is one of those motion pictures where producers seemed to strive for authenticity by having dialogue in foreign languages with sub-titles on the screen. That may have worked OK for large motion picture theatre screens, or for people with huge screen plasma TVs. I was trying to watch this on a normal TV set, and the subtitles came out too small to read from across the room. It was like trying to watch something where people were speaking in tongues. I had trouble getting into the story, or understanding where it was going, so I turned it off to watch something more interesting.

So, it might be OK if you have a huge screen plasma TV to go with the sub-titles, and want something intellectual. If you are like me, and you are looking for something to watch on a normal TV set, I would suggest saving your money.

Greater on BluRay - A greater vedio of the Da Vinici Code with added footage not on previous versions.

Great movie. Definitely recommend. - This blue-ray DVD is great. Love the movie and the picture quality is excellent.

Why decloak now? - For some reason, when the European monarchs created by Queen Victoria stand side by side, the King of England strongly resembles the last known Czar of Russia who is his brother in law rather than Kaiser Wilhelm the 2nd. How is that possible? And why does Lord Kitchener and the actor Tim Curry also bear such a strong resemblance to the aforementioned English King and Russian Czar? After Okinawa was invaded and their king forced to falsely claim that the archipelago nation was long a part of Japan, why did the royal families of South East Asia systematically disappear and what really happened to the true royal family of Corea? How is it that most of the world's royal families disappeared by the time of World War 2 after the Archduke Ferdinand was probably murdered by his own royal connections because the young Yugoslavian shooter didn't believe that his broken gun actually fired although he was glad that the assassination happened because the Austro-Hungarian/German call it whatever you want - it's the same bad guy - had enslaved the Balkans. They had no business being in that country. There was a second shooter but not on the grassy knoll in Texas. The Rose Line is the line that runs through Beijing aligned to the North Star and Mao Tse Tung has a missing child who was hidden with the Miao aka Hmong ethnic minority tribe during the Long March. Da Vinci Code is about hiding the sons (AND the daughters) of rulers to prevent forced marriages such as the one to the Austrian Marie Antoinette whose divorce could only be brought about by the French Revolution. The Scarlet Pimpernel saved aristocrats but not her. She's the most famous beheading of the French Revolution. And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition or St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre; why? Those Cambodians don't look defensive about the killing fields but those piles of skulls ECHO the skulls of native Taiwanese that the Japanese did to intimidate the surviving population of Taiwan when they invaded and held Taiwan during WW2. We are being shown ECHOES to keep the crimes yet to be punished alive in our minds.