Even, 'Da Vinci'wannabe 'National Treasure' released a couple of years ago ran on pure hokum but was rendered mildly amusing by enjoyably goofy performances by Nic Cage and Gang. Any efforts to make a character even mildly interesting is not visible.

Namely, stand aroundĪnd deliver long drawn theobabble on cue. But it's hard to blame the actor themselves given what they're asked to do.

The only actor who infuses any life into the proceedings is thesp Ian McKellan. Ten minutes worth of accented spouting and Paul Bettany is doused in Pilsbury flour looks menacing but acts campy like he's coming straight from 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'. Terms of 'wooden' and 'lost' expressions. Audrey Tatou, whom i had a severe and lingering crush on after 'Amelie' is at Hank's heels in He's about as bored as a Literature student in a quantum physics lecture. He was better in 'Bonfire of Vanities' for crying out aloud. Goddamn it, he was better in B-grade stuff like 'Burbs' and 'Bachelor's Party'. The ever wonderful,always michievious Tom Hanks delivers the worst ever performance of his career. The movie's second greatest failing is the acting. Who prefer to indule in nostalgia and past relationships rather than get the hell on with the quest for the 'Holy Grail'. So we get a bunch of weepy oversentimental characters Forgive the vernacular, but the movie lacks, most of all, 'balls'. The blame falls square on Ron Howard and his screenwriter Akiva Goldman both Oscar winners for the (highly-overrated) 'Beautiful Mind'.

Potboiler and what came across was a plodding, pretentious conspiracy I have no idea how the book read but the movie comes across as an uninteresting and ridiculous theological ramble.įrom all the hype generated I was expecting an explosive, full-blooded Hullaballoo over Jesus' private pecadilloes suggested in 'Da VinciĬode' the Church is giving more credit than required to what is clearly a load of hokum. The pedigree is right up there- Scorsese's 'Last Temptation of Christ', Monty Python's 'Life of Brian', Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby' and Smith's 'Dogma'. I thought that the Catholic Church had damn good taste when it came to bannning movies.

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