![]() Hanks remains disturbingly unruffled, even when he is framed for the monk’s crimes and goes on the run from France to England with Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), a French cryptologist whose curator grandfather was the murder victim. Bettany’s rabid overacting seems to inspire Hanks to take the opposite tack. ![]() Not lovely is Silas (Paul Bettany), a crazed albino monk who’ll whack a nun to get his hands on the Grail - that is, when he’s not whipping himself with a fervor unseen since Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. There’s been a grisly murder at the Louvre, which plays itself, by the way, and looks lovely. The only true controversy that remains is where you stand on the long hair Tom Hanks grew to play Robert Langdon, the Harvard prof who specializes in symbols (the movie - like the book - is loaded with them). Here’s the sure way to quiet the protesters: Have them see the movie. Conservative elements in the Catholic Church are all worked up over a plot that questions Christ’s divinity and posits a Vatican conspiracy to cover up Jesus Christ’s alleged marriage to Mary Magdalene and to drive all things feminine from the church. Da Vinci is a dud - a dreary, droning, dull-witted adaptation of Dan Brown’s religioso detective story that sold 50 million copies worldwide.
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