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The Da Vinci Code (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
from Sony Pictures
starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany
directed by Ron Howard

Features:

• AC-3
• Color
• Dolby
• Dubbed

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Hollywood "history" making bucks off the Bible.
  Hey, if DaVinci put it into a painting, and Ron Howard sells it in a movie with lots of pseudo scholarly verbiage and ominous sounding music, then it must be true, right? Oh, puhleeze. Religion aside, as someone who has studied Biblical history and archaeology for years, this is too sad a piece of work to be taken seriously as any kind of scholarship. As one who used to not believe in Yahusha, aka Jesus Christ, I can see how this would lead many of the naive into more and more Hollywood sloppy-think. Still... more info

• Lost in Translation
  Considering the popularity of the novel, the movie comes across as flat. Perhaps the puzzles were too complex for the brevity of film, but the acting is so unemotional that it's hard to get engaged with the characters. In the end, we just don't care about the people in this movie, which is strange because Tom Hanks can make us care about an bald, graffiti-laden basketball.
  (The film probably won't offend as much as the book because the negativism toward religion has been toned down from Dan Brown's... more info

• Da Vinci Code's missing pieces?
  This is an excellent movie full of twists and thrills. But the edition being published now has many scenes missing from the original movie. I was very disappointed they were not included in this version. Still, this edition did not omit the scenes that included a lot of the art giving the movie deeper meaning than its appearance.

• Why a different movie in the states than was released overseas?
  Can someone please explain to me why the movie released overseas was 35 minutes longer and contained the movie scenes that would have actually allowed the screen version to make as much sense as the book? I was so lucky to have seen the extended version, but was quite angry and frustrated to find that I cannot purchase it anywhere in the USA or on a disc that can actually be played on a DVD player from the United States. And people actually think we have freedom here in America. You are only kidding... more info

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