![]() Of course that kind of character will pontificate on Leonardo and the Holy Grail like a child showing off a new toy nothing could be more natural. ![]() ![]() He's the one stuck with the job of explaining most of the secret to the audience, and he does it all while you're marvelling at how perfectly he embodies the old English gentleman, at once good-humoured and irascible, erudite and bawdy-minded, superbly vain yet not in the least defensive about his dignity. But it's Sir Ian McKellen, as Sir Leigh Teabing, who makes the film. ![]() Paul Bettany's crazed, self-flagellating cowled assassin projects real menace and real pathos at once, every grimace inviting both sympathy and revulsion not an easy feat. I don't believe a real police officer would ever look like Audrey Tautou's Sophie Neveu, as I don't imagine they have an hour to do their make-up every morning, but, as movie brunettes-with-brains go, she's exceptional. Tom Hanks' Robert Langdon is completely credible as a working academic, swept up into events he doesn't fully understand but is determined to make the best of. First, it fleshes out those flat author-mouthpieces into real, believable people. It accomplishes two tasks which, given the source material, must have been very difficult. As far as I can tell, anyway, given my limited reading. The writing is graceless, the characters exist only to spout the author's views, and the attempts at suspense fall flat. I have several times unsuccessfully tried to read Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.
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