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Save Your Money and Your Time

The Da Vinci Code this year most controversial film had received a load of bad movie reviews, which the director Ron Howard brushed aside. Comments were also made the film was ‘too long.’

On the 19th May 2006, despite the immense controversy of the film, the Da Vinci Code was greeted by ‘disappointed whistles and snickering from around 2,000 journalists’, reported the ABC. Having seen the film, the head of the Anglican Diocese in Sydney Archbishop Dr. Peter Jensen, along with Father Richard Leonard SJ the director of the Australian Catholic Film Office believed the film was ‘too long.’

Hollywood trade magazine Daily Variety had given it a blistering review, describing the movie adaptation of the novel “as becoming a stodgy, grim thing in its exceedingly literal-minded film version".

Archbishop Jensen who saw the film described it as ‘a bit long and slow moving’ to the Australian. He said ‘there was nothing to greatly offend’ in the movie but from a point of view where people do no know the facts then ‘that is a worry.’

Father Richard Leonard SJ the director of the Australian Catholic Film Office also gave a stinging review stating the film ran out of puff and the only real victims were Opus Dei who should sue for defamation. He said: “The Da Vinci Code movie was overly long, the direction was uninspired and the acting from Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou was surprisingly weak. And, what’s worse, with twenty minutes still to run in this 149-minute marathon, the film completely ran out of puff.”

He concluded his review by revealing who was conning who stating: “Throughout the film the Catholic Church is called ‘the dark con’ of history. I know who is conning whom here, so save your money and your time”.

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