While many consider National Treasure to be a rip-off of the novel The Da Vinci Code, it, despite a wildly improbable plot, was exciting, interesting, funny, and enjoyable to watch in short, everything the movie version of The Da Vinci Code is not. It was the basic plot for 2004’s National Treasure. If the whole idea of two disparate groups trying to decipher ancient clues and riddles to find a secret treasure sounds familiar, it should.
With Fache after them on the one hand and Silas on the other, Langdon and Nevue enlist the assistance of Holy Grail expert Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) to decipher the clues. Police Captain Fache (Jean Reno) is convinced that Langdon himself is the murderer but Langdon and Nevue elude Fache and set out to solve the mystery the murdered curator died protecting.Īt the same time, Bishop Manuel Aringarosa (Alfred Molina) and his psychotically conflicted albino acolyte, Silas (Paul Bettany) are attempting to solve the same set of riddles in order to obtain and destroy the proof of a secret that will shake Christianity to its foundation. Langdon and police cryptologist Sophie Nevue (Audrey Tautou), who is also the victims granddaughter, realize that the curator left some clues as to the identity or his murderer and the reason for his murder. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is asked to view the crime scene of a murdered museum curator at the Louvre. I think it is possible, considering the book was a mega-seller and the theatrical release of the movie made $750 million worldwide, that when I opened up my Two-Disc Widescreen Special Edition of The Da Vinci Code I was the only person in the world who did not know the plot of the story.
The real protesters should have been the poor suckers who spent $9 to watch this snooze fest. Catholic groups protested and boycotted the movie because it claims that their church was suppressing a secret revelation alluded to in one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous paintings. The The Da Vinci Code, Director Ron Howard’s adaptation of the bestselling thriller by Dan Brown, generated a lot of controversy around the time of its theatrical release.
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