You’ve Got 3 Hours To Break The Da Vinci Code
If you’re not one of the 60+ million people who have read the best selling novel The Da Vinci Code since it was first released by writer Dan Brown in 2003, now’s your chance to watch the movie on DVD.
It’s easy to see how this story has gained such popularity as it weaves a great mystery into history, religion, and iconic historical figures such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton. There are knights, royal blood lines, a rampaging albino monk - everything you need to twist and turn the plot at every corner. The movie is full of symbolism and clues and leads you just far enough in the wrong direction that if you really figure out the final mystery early on, you’ll have plenty of doubts and alternate theories before everything is revealed.
The Da Vinci Code starts off with the strange murder of Jacques Sauniere, the curator of the Louvre Museum in Paris. Tom Kanks plays professor Robert Langdon, french actress Audrey Tautou is Sophie Neveu, the grandaughter of the murdered curator, and Ian Mckellen plays an old colleague of Langdon’s and an expert in the mythical history of the Priory of Sion.
Together, and with clues found in Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper, at the tomb of physicist Sir Isaac Newton, and other places the main characters stay one step ahead of the authorites and mysterious figures chasing them as they seek to unravel a 2000 year old mystery buried in the clues all around them.
The movie is pieced together wonderfully by director Ron Howard, and although it’s recieved some criticism for being a bit slow, that’s probably because it’s about three hours long. It’s a 2 DVD set and the second disc contains a number of small behind the scenes featurettes and a Da Vinci Game demo that you can play on your pc.
