Thanks for the compliment, but I do believe that my viewing experience was affected by the fact that I have read the book and knew what to expect. My positive rating of the movie is more to do with comparing it to the source material than actually rating it as a film (which is something that I feel would be impossible for me to do - once you have read or seen something it is impossible to forget that and watch the film on it's own merits). Was it a good movie rather than a good adaptation? I don't know. However, I do wonder what the people slating this movie were actually expecting - is it that the movie is bad, or is it that it wasn't what they thought it was going to be. After all, here's an awful lot of hype around the Da Vinci Code.

Also, if people didn't enjoy the movie because of the plot, that is not the fault of the filmmakers or actors, who were only trying to follow the Brown's book.