I have just returned from seeing The Da Vinci Code at the Cinema. I think I liked it – people wanting to see a National Treasure type film will be really dissapointed. I am not sure what the budget of this film was like but it did not look as expensive as National Treasure. But this was more a thinking persons movie. And they didn’t seem to waste tons of money on too many locations – the majority of the movie is set in London and Paris with another couple of sites playing more minor roles.

I can understand why the catholic church would not be happy about the film – it put the Catholic Opus Dei organisation mostly in a poor light, although there was some redemption later in the movie for some characters. On the other hand, my view of the priory changed over the length of the movie.

Personally I do not have many problems with this movie – it is a piece of story telling that asks people to ask what they believe in. What is important to them. This was bourne out in the last five to ten minute of the movie. I certainly did enjoy the movie, and was not constantly wondering when the movie was ending. And that is good with a movie that is over two hours long!