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Duke's alter ego
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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22-May-2006, 4:05 AM
I saw the movie today. I'd give it a 6.5/10. Of course it wasn't as good as the book (though the changes in the film were minimal), and I thought the actress playing Sophie was kind of weak for the part. Tom hanks did a decent job, and the film moved at a pretty fast pace; and it didn't go into all the detail the book did (for obvious reasons). Also, the locations in the movie were exactly as I'd imagined them while reading the book.

On thing that I absolutely LOVED about the movie was Ian McKellen's performance as Leigh Teabing. I enjoyed his Teabing better than the book's in fact. I often had to remind myself that he was the villian; he completely had me. His balance between humour and obsession is just amazing. My favorite scene had to be where the police were draggin Teabing away and he's raving and screaming at Langdon and you just know that he's gone insane. Anyway he was great.

Not sure if I'd recommend it though, I'd more readily recommend the book over the movie.