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Film Review By Clyde Ayles
 
LONG CODE
Top notch director RON HOWARD and top notch
actor TOM HANKS have teamed up again ("Splash" and "Apollo 13", and
now "The Da Vinci Code') Well, two out of three isn't bad. "Code"
is not a bad film, just too long and dull in some spots. Now unless
you've been living in another world, you know the story. As the
story goes, a Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon (Hanks) is asked
by a French policeman (JEAN RENO) to go to a murder scene in the
Louvre to examine a body with religous symbols on it. He doesn't
know that he is the prime suspect of the foul deed. We know from
the beginning that the murderer is an albino monk named Silas (PAUL
BETTANY). Soon a cryptologist with the French police (AUDREY
TAUTOU, a very capable young actress) shows up on the scene to warn
Langdon that he is in danger and helps him escape. All this tells
us two storys in one. The search for the Holy Grail and the covered
up story that Jesus had wed Mary Magdalene and the blood line
excists even today. IAN McKELLEN adds some much welcome drama and
humor to the story as a wealthy genius who joins Langdon and the
pretty policewoman in their search for the Grail and shows them the
clues hidden in Da Vinci's painting of The Last Supper.The uprising
from church groups is uncalled for. It is fiction, a story, a
movie. If anyone thinks it is a true story then they better get
checked out. Some people have said to me that it is too far
fetched, well dah, it's a movie. Men don't fly and animals don't
talk, The film, based on the best selling book by Dan Brown, has
it's moments, but could have been trimmed to two hours instead of
the two and a half hours running time. It might have been less
draggy. A trivia p.s. Hanks and Howard apeared together a
few years ago on the t. v. show "Happy Days' SEE YA AT THE
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Clyde Ayles
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